Video: The Tower of Chairs - Original Installation by Tadashi Kawamata
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
More recently, on the site Culturology. Ru, we told our readers about Aya Weiwei's large-scale installation at the festival Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, which is now taking place in Toronto. Chinese artist surprised the audience with 3144 bicycles, but his colleague, a Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, for my installation I used … chairs. From hundreds of wooden chairs and stools, he managed to assemble a tall tower, which will surely be remembered by many visitors to the exhibition.
Regular readers of our site are familiar with the work of Tadashi Kawamata, we have already talked about his installation Under the Water, dedicated to the tsunami that raged in Japan in 2011. The talented artist delighted the visitors of Scotiabank Nuit Blanche with an installation of chairs, benches and garden furniture, which he called Garden Tower in Toronto.
This amazing tower is supposed to serve as a great place for meetings and discussions. Despite the fact that the structure looks shaky, Tadashi Kawamata thought through everything to the smallest detail, and it is absolutely safe to be inside. The artist took into account that most of the events at the Scotiabank Nuit Blanche festival take place at night, so the tower of chairs is well illuminated. In addition, the chairs form a kind of amphitheater, so that, lifting your head up, you can admire the starry sky.
All chairs in the installation are different, each visitor can mentally choose the one he likes. By the way, on the bottom row of benches you can really sit down to just think, read or chat with your neighbor. The Garden Tower is located next to the Metropolitan United Church, so many have already christened it “chairway to heaven”, by analogy with the famous “stairway to heaven” from the legendary Led Zeppelin song.
Recall that the idea of creating sculptures from chairs is not new; earlier such installations were already created by the American Mark Andre Robinson.
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