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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Mikiya Matsuda
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Themes: conceptual Review: Mikiya Matsuda Mikiya Matsuda has created sculptures in which pennies and screws are repetitively placed on some streets or square wooden boards packed in cotton duck canvases. The artist spends hours repetitively arranging thousands of pennies or screws on the sidewalks or on the wooden boards. Although this repetitive and painstaking process reminds us of ordinary people's daily routine, many critics have noticed that it goes beyond. Lucio Pozzzi, who used to run a fine-arts workshop at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, wrote of Mikiya Masuda, "It's an honorable thing that Mikiya is doing. Like the ancient Zen masters, Mikiya is showing that repetition and continuity produce art above and beyond the ordinary--- Such static repetitiveness can be mystical.--- It is really nearer the Zen art of the past and echoes the contemplative Time-Rituals of On Kawara ---. Available research materials of the artist in the AAAC Archives are 61 slides, two photos of the artist's performances, Xeroxed copies of experimental correspondence written by the artist himself, an exhibition catalog and press releases. Reviewed by Young Park | |||||||||
