Mizuma Art
Gallery
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Jun
Nuguyen-Hatsushiba
Memorial Project Minamata: Neither Either nor Neither-A Love Story
November 20 (wed)- December 25 (wed), 2002
Mizuma Art Gallery
Fujiya Bldg. .2flr. 1-3-9 Kamimeguro Meguro-ku, 153-0051 Tokyo, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)3-3793-7931 Fax:+81-(0)3-3793-7887
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Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to present Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba Solo
Exhibition.
Last year, at first international art exhibition: Yokohama Triennial
(Japan), Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba attracted a great deal of attention for
his video piece: people riding cyclo (Vietnamese rickshaw taxi) under
sea,
was born between a Vietnamese father and a Japanese mother in Tokyo,
1968.
Currently he resides at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hatsushibas works
combines visual beauty and attitude of calm pursuit to Vietnamese social
problems that continues to capture the heart of many people in the
world.
In this exhibition, Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba plans to release his new
video
work. Without politically prosecuting the unresolved unfortunate
problems
in modern history, he attempts to convey to the world by sublimating to
his art through the viewpoint of a contemporary artist. This year he
worked on a project, which overlaps with the scars left from the Vietnam
War and the post war tragedy, which occurred in Minamata Japan. With the
corporation of Minamata prefecture and Contemporary Art Museum,
Kumamoto,
the shooting took place at the local sea. This video is a site-specific
piece made in hope of not to repeat these tragedies in history. The
serious effect made by orange agents (a code name for defoliant) sprayed
by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War adds depth to this video.
Also, for rapidly developing countries such as Vietnam and China,
Minamata
disease (a type of poisoning caused by industrial mercury pollution) is
manifesting as a fervent pollution disease and for Hatsushiba who
currently reside in Vietnam, it is a very realistic problem that cannot
be
considered as other peoples affairs. This work carries its role as a
memorial piece; it continues to tell of these unresolved problems to
people in order not to forget. This work encourages the audience to
become
pilgrims and to repeat their pilgrimage.
For further information and biography please visit http://mizuma-art.co.jp
2003 Up coming Exhibition:
The Matrix program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum, U.S / April 6th-June
1st, 2003
(The Matrix show will tour to The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
/May
6th-June 29th, 2003, and Austin Museum of Art, U.S. )
MIT List Visual Arts Center/ U.S / From April 8th, 2003
NKV extra/ Germany /March 30th -May 11th, 2003
Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea,/
Italy / April
14th- August 24th, 2003
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