ICC

Vibration of Entities

October 30 (Sat.), 2010–February 27 (Sun.), 2011

Works

"claisen flask" 2007
SHIMIZU Jio

By passing laser beams through or reflecting them off the rotating Claisen flask*, various wave-shapes lights appear around the exhibition room. In addition to a combination of several special lenses that disperse the light, the properties of the laser light draw out the properties of the flask, revealing its shape and that it has thickness, that it has an inside and an outside, and that there are small changes in its texture.* Claisen flask: a special flask used in vacuum distillation that was invented in 1893 by German organic chemist Rainer Ludwig CLAISEN (1851–1930).

SHIMIZU Jio
Born in Tokyo in 1966, Shimizu Jio graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music. Using acoustics and vibration phenomena as his main materials for expression, he seeks methodologies that recapture elements and aspects of nature from various perspectives in the context of taking a positivist approach to such subjects as phenomena and their perception, the generation of movement and elements, and the relationship between art and natural science. Between 1994 and 2006 Shimizu was a member of the "WrK" group and studied overseas on the 2008 Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists provided by the Agency for Cultural Affairs; the Grant of the Denmark National Bank (Denmark), Statens Vœrksteder for Kunst og Håndvœrk/Gammel Dok (Copenhagen, Denmark), and CPH AIR Fabrikken for Kunst og Design. Since 2008 he has been living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
http://www5.famille.ne.jp/~jshimizu/ Past Exhibition / Event
Performance & Artists' Talk SHIMIZU Jio
Talk SHIMIZU Jio X TSUNODA Toshiya X HATANAKA Minoru (ICC)
Date: January 15 (Sat.), 2011, 2:00 pm– [Finished] | >Details |