{"id":129,"date":"2010-09-20T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=129"},"modified":"2010-10-04T02:16:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T09:16:40","slug":"kyoto-bouke-de-vries-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto: Bouke de Vries &quot;PIECES&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xQcUTpQ_yd4\/TJcWgErZLkI\/AAAAAAAAAfY\/yMTfHqW0a1M\/s1600\/_DSC7192.jpg\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518904608633204290\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: hand; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_xQcUTpQ_yd4\/TJcWgErZLkI\/AAAAAAAAAfY\/yMTfHqW0a1M\/s400\/_DSC7192.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">B<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">ouke de Vries, <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Pieces<\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">, 2010, detail<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Glass, mirrors, variable dimensions, image courtesy of the gallery<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kyoto\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superwindowproject.com\/\">Super Window Project &amp; Gallery<\/a> is temporarily pausing its activities at their Motoyama Kamigama location to concentrate on various international endeavors (starting with the gallery presenting their artists at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artissima.it\/?lang=_en\">Artissima 17<\/a>). In anticipation of this seasonal closing, the SWP has mounted their last exhibition entitled \u201cPieces\u201d by Bouke de Vries.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">The current installation is comprised of two tall thin glass towers filled with glass fragments at once fragile and dangerous. The resulting tension between power and vulnerability is not unlike what I saw in the last SWP exhibition of Soshi Matsunobe\u2019s paper sculptures: ostensibly hard but, in reality, super delicate works. The metaphor of vulnerability is physically manifested in the glass of De Vries\u2019 ephemeral towers due to the timing of the installation. The exhibition was inaugurated on the anniversary of the World Trade Centre disaster, making the semi-transparent glass shard-filled structures function symbolically as well as viscerally.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518904275405662370\" style=\"display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_xQcUTpQ_yd4\/TJcWMrTwaKI\/AAAAAAAAAfI\/UwgbGMD0W84\/s400\/_DSC7170.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Bouke de Vries, <em>Pieces<\/em>,  installation view, image courtesy of the gallery<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">Unlike the accumulation sculptures of the New Realists, De Vries\u2019 piled up fragments of ceramics and discarded or found materials are not a commentary on the production-accumulation continuum within modern societies. His boxed \u201clife fragments\u201d seem to refer to the condition of fragility of human existence\u2014what was once real becomes an emblematic representation removed from its original context, and forced into the vacuum of glass encasement. In De Vries, the materials that used to form the fabric of peoples\u2019 lives now exist only as fragments, \u201cpieces\u201d which encapsulate the memories of things past.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> The show will be on through October 24. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bouke de Vries, Pieces, 2010, detail Glass, mirrors, variable dimensions, image courtesy of the gallery Kyoto\u2019s Super Window Project &amp; Gallery is temporarily pausing its activities at their Motoyama Kamigama location to concentrate on various international endeavors (starting with the gallery presenting their artists at Artissima 17). 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