 Artist and His Studio, 1996 model of Atelier 217 plywood, Styrofoam, plexiglas mirror 16" x 21" x 28" |
 Japanese Houses, 1997 b & w photo collage 16" x 20" |
 Inverted Office, 1998 brick, glass block, concrete, wood, plexiglas 17.5' x 9.5' x 14.5' |
 Inverted Office (detail), 1998 glass block, concrete, wood, plexiglas 17.5' x 9.5' x 14.5' |
Over the past seven years, I realized a number of purposeful re-interpretations of the artist's studios. The performing artwork entitled "Artist and His Studio" (1996) consists of a wearable model of my studio in which four sheets of Plexiglas mirror are installed. The mirrors reflect the surrounding environment through two windows of the model around the face of the artist that is in concealed within the ultraminiaturize studio. The studio becomes the scopic device of the artist while wearing the model.
My mirrored periscopes, installed in a museum space, allow visitors to experience the surrounding art space, and outdoor environment, thus extending the sense of space by breaking down the physical and structural limit of the architectural container. The periscopes in "Observatory" (at P.S.1, 1999) and in "Adjoining Spaces" (at Queens Museum of Art, 2000) are embedded into the floor and wall of the exhibition space to enable the viewer to see into the lower galleries and beyond the wall.
Japanese people traditionally design and create their own private houses with carpenters from the beginning of the construction process to the end. "Japanese Houses" (1997) consists of 23 families and their own houses. Each photograph contains all family members, whose faces are covered with the picture of their houses. The fusion between the people and their houses becomes an anthropomorphism, which appeals to an analogical relationship between the human body and architecture.
Toshihiro Komatsu
Present address:
37-12 21st Avenue
Astoria NY 11105
phone/fax: (718) 204-6177
Permanent address:
Kamigaya-cho 6798-1
Hamamatsu City
Shizuoka Prefecture
432-8005 Japan
phone/fax: +81 (0)534856384
Website: www.toride-ap.gr.jp/TAP2000-E/trap/komatsu.html
email:toshihiro@alum.mit.edu
Education
| 1999 | Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge MA M.S. Vis. S. |
| 1993 | Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan M.F.A. |
| 1991 | Tokyo National University of
Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan B.F.A. |
Residencies
| 1999 | P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,
LIC, NY Special Project Program. |
| 1995-6 | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2000 | "Queens Focus 03: Adjoining
Spaces," Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Toride Art Project 2000, Toride City, Japan "Transposed: Analogs of Built Space," SculptureCenter, NY American Photography Institute exhibition, Osaka, Japan
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| 1999 | "Japanese Houses" and "Observatory,"
Special Projects Fall 1999, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, NY |
| 1998 | American Photography Institute
exhibition, The Gallery of Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, NY |
| 1997 | "Repeat Reverse," the Yale Art and Architecture Building, New Haven, CT |
| 1996 | Watertoren CHK, Vlissingen,
the Netherlands
"Secrets," Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
Selected Projects
| 1999-2000 | Commission work, Nippon Organon
K.K., Osaka, Japan.
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| 1998-1999 | "Inverted Office N51-113," Department
of Architecture MIT, Cambridge, MA
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| 1996 | "Artist and His Studio," Rijksakademie
van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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| 1995 | "Illumination" and "Mobile Space,"
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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| 1993 | "Reconstruction of Studio 204," Yamanashi, Japan (outdoor pavilion) |
Selected Awards
| 2000 | Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 1998 | American Photography Institute
Fellowship
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| 1997 & 98 | Department of Architecture,
MIT, Scholarship Recipient
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| 1996 & 97 | Union Foundation for Ergodesign
Culture Grant, Japan
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| 1995 | PSV Foundation Grant, the Netherlands
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Selected Publications
| TAP 2000 (exhibition catalogue),
TAP 2000 office, Toride City, Japan, 2001
Transposed: Analogs of Built Space (catalogue), Sculpture Center, New York, 2000 Queens Focus 03 brochure, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, 2000 TAP 2000 (proposal show catalogue), TAP 2000 office, Toride City, Japan, 2000 National Graduate Seminar Bulletin 1998, American Photography Institute, 1999 Inverted Office N51-113, thresholds 17, Department of Architecture, MIT, 1998 Atelier 217, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, 1996 Between Day and Night, the artist's book, 1992
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