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| | Atsushi Fukui: Gentle Metaphysician |
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| Jeffrey Ian Rosen |
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| Born in 1966, artist Atsushi Fukui began
a professional art career at what would be considered
by present-day standards a rather late age: his commercial
gallery debut took place in 2001. This slow start -- Fukui
graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts
and Music in 1989 -- is evidence of the extent to which
sensitivity governs his approach towards art practice,
a sensitivity well informed by and deeply rooted in the
everyday. more... |
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| | Deep Simplicity:
Tezuka Architects at Gallery MA |
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| Thomas Daniell |
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| Takaharu and Yui Tezuka are a color-coded
married couple. Her possessions are all red, his are all
blue, and the things they share -- their Citroen 2CV,
for example -- are all yellow. This combination of directness,
simplicity, and humor also infuses their architecture.
Avoiding needless experimentation with form for its own
sake, their buildings are conceived as devices to enhance
life's simple pleasures: sunlight, breezes, views, family
interactions. more... |
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