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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Sadashi Inuzuka
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Themes: abstract, conceptual Review: Sadashi Inuzuka Sadashi Inuzuka has created large-scale installations addressing the relationship between humans and nature. In his installations, using the metaphors of natural objects like the insects and microscopic organisms, he has tended to juxtapose fired caly and unfired clay which is supposed to gradually reveal the transformative processes, variation and repetition, fact and fantasy and finally the raw material and the artist's labor. Inuzuka's work seems to be labor intensive and function well in large exhibition spaces. Carol Mayer, Curator of Ceramics in UBC Museum of Anthropology, wrote of Inuzuka's work that "Each piece interprets and reinterprets the natural world: sea creatures conjured up from Inuzuka's memory, imagination and sub-conscious. As the work fills the space, the space becomes the art - a shared symbolic order orchestrated by the artist. He sees the installation as a metaphor for our society. It is also about an atmosphere and environment that does not speak to you --- it feels to you." In her review on Sadashi's exhibition, Robin Laurence also mentioned that "Many of Inuzuka's organic shapes seem to have originated in some deep and ancient sea, to have crept out of the primordial ooze toward the light of this bright place. ---Inuzuka's choice of ceramics as an installation medium is both natural and political. --- It makes a statement about both tradition and originality outside the critical stream, about the expressive possibilities of an eternal medium beyond the margins of marketability and cultural theory." Available research materials of this artist in the AAAC Archives are 25 slides, a CD ROM, 5 catalogs, invitation cards and reviews. Reviewed by Young Park | |||||||||
