Recently I was lucky enough to see an exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, featuring Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata. He’s work takes over sporadic areas of the galleries within and outside the Centre Pompidou, with bird nest-like structures, compiled of wooden planks, precariously attached to the building. Inside Kawamata has produced a world of cardboard, within which you can construct anything you desire using cardboard, scissors and various sticky substances, these creations are made within a building of cardboard, literally. After building your cardboard brilliance, there are various documentaries providing explanation of the artist’s works and intentions.
The juxtaposition between the industrial interior and exterior of the venue and the organic use of wood, allows the viewer to recontextualise the role of both the artwork and the building itself, encouraging a varied perspective, created by the viewer of the work who is now transformed into the creator. This coincides with Godard’s sentiment that ‘it takes two to create an image’, although in Kawamata’s work much like Rirkrit Tiravanija’s work, Untitled (Tomorrow Is Another Day) 1996, the artist becomes void once the work comes into fruition, in order for the work to succeed the continual support from the audience is needed.
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