"outdoor and outside" - Tadashi Kawamata talking to the outsiderscene Ruhrgebiet
Around the world, Tadashi Kawamata sets up installations that react to and interact with their surroundings, their history and function.
Even though they cry out to be seen as sculptures, Kawamata's installations closely correlate with architectural language and always have a specific function.
Kawamata has been the subject of a special exhibition at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen in 1995. At the time, he dealt intensely with the building's history as the bunker of a railway station during World War II. He re-created the claustrophobic feeling of the time through wooden constructions. Because they were made of wood used for components inside mines, they also alluded to another type of constriction characteristic of the Ruhr: the narrow underground shafts in the mines, the coal industry's invisible parallel world.
Two lookouts will be set up as art of the "Mapping the Region" project. One will become a permanent structure along the Emscher river and be part of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010's "Emscherkunst 2010" project that is to transform Emscher Island into a cultural and tourism hotspot.
A similar lookout will be set up temporarily in front of the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen's bunker building. Both lookouts refer to each other and provide an opportunity to look at familiar surroundings from a different perspective.
The exhibition will show models, drawings and photographs of projects that Kawamata has realized - often temporarily - around the world.
3 July, 2010 - 5 September, 2010
Kunsthalle Recklinghausen
The exhibition is part of the Ruhr ART MUSEUMS' "Mapping the Region" project.
Related topic:
Emscher Art 2010