Chim⭡Pom: Happy Spring
Feb 18, 2022 at 12:00am ~ May 29, 2022 at 11:59pm
This will be the first-ever retrospective of Chim↑Pom, bringing together major works from the start of their seventeen-year career to more recent years, plus new work produced for this exhibition. Displays will be divided by theme – e.g., cities and publicness, Hiroshima, the Great East-Japan Earthquake – highlighting matters consistently addressed by the artists, while examining the collective’s oeuvre in its entirety. Dynamic exhibition design, rich in creative ingenuity, will also assist in shedding new light on the ever-surprising world of Chim↑Pom.
With seemingly uncanny foresight, Chim↑Pom has addressed in a number of their previous works the social issues of infection and discrimination against people with contagious diseases, and of bias, contamination and borders, all thrown into sharp relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. Now more than ever perhaps is the time to observe their thought-provoking knack for raising issues pertinent to the zeitgeist.
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Artist Name: Chim↑Pom
Title of the work: Build-Burger
2018
Mixed media (3 layers of concrete floors cropped from “ Ningen Restaurant,” various furniture and objects from each floor of the building)
400 x 360 x 280 cm (left), 186 x 170 x 155 cm (right)
In cooperation with Ningen Restaurant, Smappa! Group, Koto Hiroya
Private collection (left)
Courtesy: ANOMALY, Tokyo
Installation view: Grand Open – Marvelous Liberation –, ANOMALY, Tokyo, 2018
Photo: Morita Kenji
Information
Start: Feb 18th 2022 at 12:00am
End: May 29th 2022 at 11:59pm
