Kumie Tsuda orchestrates her installation with compounds of small elements using ceramics as its material.
In her show “Meteora” at the Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo in 2007, an installation was shown; a sculptural work that consisted of small fragments connected with each other, gathered around a symbolic form that resembled a hardened lava on a pedestal made out of paraffin wax. The same material “ceramic” revealed different aspects, such as multi faceted object that’s like an ore, or two legged creature with a head of a mushroom.
On the wall hung works that resembled tiles, strange geometric shapes and mysterious mountain that float on the surface of water were painted. The abbey built above vulgarity on a precipice in Meteora in Greece once upon a time inspired the artist as an expression of a strong belief in invisible.
Although Kumie Tsuda’s motifs have concrete shapes, it doesn’t come across as a narrative, but rather presents the texture, the uncertainty of the relationship between us and the surrounding world, just as uncertain as it really is to us.
She said that she occasionally made works with her dream in mind; from Kumie Tsuda’s work, odd world seemed to unveil, as if to have been reconstructed from our various dreams.
The series of ceramic works will also be shown in our show titled “Perfect is Not Perfect”. Variety of works, such as the round relief diptych , about 10 figurines, an installation using thread, will be on view.
Kumie Tsuda was born in Kanagawa prefecture in 1980. She graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music majoring in sculpture in 2003. Then in 2005 she finished the post graduate course in sculpture, and was on research student program until 2006.
This is her first solo show with Tomio Koyama Gallery.
She was included as one of the ten young artists in the group show last year, “INDEX #3”, curated by ICHIHARA Kentaro. The show traveled to 3 sites; art project room ARTZONE which is an art gallery of Kyoto University to Art and Design, then to shin-bi which is an art gallery of Kyoto Seika University, and Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo.
Tomio Koyama Gallery
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