Shinro Ohtake, ‘Scrapbook #66’, 2010-2012. Mixed media artist book, 72 x 96 x 129 cm, 27.2 kg, 830 pages. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Retina (New Tong of Tangier I), 1992-93. Fly, plastic fly, oil, oil varnish, oil stick, wood glue, persimmon tannin, plastic resin, felt-tip pen, spray paint, putty, photograph, printed matter, cardboard, thin paper, paper, plastic sheet, cotton cloth, cotton thread, hemp cloth, wire, iron, plastic pipe, brass rivet, brass grommet, Japanese paper book, nail, leather, bulb socket, electric wire, wooden box, iron board, balsa, can, wood, wooden block, wooden shelf. 216 x 212 x 82 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Retina (New Tong of Tangier I)’ (detail), 1992 – 93. 216 x 212 x 82 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Japanese Comics’, 2000. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Radio Head Surfer’, 1994-95. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Time Memory 9, 2011. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Layers of Time Memory 2, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Frost #5’, 1989. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
‘Scrapbook #66’, by Shinro Ohtake, 2010-2012. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, Time Memory 28, 2014, Oil, acrylic, spray paint, tar, ink, pencil, glue, masking tape, cellophane tape, wrapping tape, aluminium foil tape, printed matter, cheesecloth, billboard paper, Japanese paper, rice paper, wrapping paper, wrapping foil, brown paper, cardboard on wooden board, 220.5 x 300.5 x 10.5 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
Shinro Ohtake, ‘Time Memory 28’ (detail), 2014. 220.5 x 300.5 x 10.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Take Ninagawa, Tokyo
“Wɖ an xtnsv, dvrs n iṇṿtv bodi v wrcs xiktd ovr ɖ past ʈrti yirz, Šinro Otace hz clirli pzišnd hmslf az wn v ɖ most impwtnt crietv fwsz in cntmprri Jaṗnīz āt. Otace’z ŕvra includz drōñ, pêstd wrcs, pêntñ, sculpčr n ftogṛfi, az wel az xperimntl myzic n vidioz, bt ɖ actiṿti v cutñ n pêstñ z clirli hiz most pârfl fwm v xprešn. Mč v hiz wrc utilîzz fând imijz n scraps dscādd fṛm ŕbn culčr n ɖ masmīdia, ofn wɖ refṛns t ɖ undrgrând myzic̦ulčr. In 1977, Otace bgan hiz ongowñ siriz v Scrapbcs, fr ẇč h z rnând n hz t dêt cmplitd mr ɖn sixti. Dy t ɖ ilabṛt prôses v mcñ ɖ Scrapbcs, č wn bcmz bʈ a pêntd n sculpčṛl entti. An xtnsv prezntešn v hiz Scrapbcs wz šôn jrñ ɖ 2013 Venis Bienāle.
Ɖ xibišn at Paṛsol ynit pṛvîdz impwtnt xpožr v Otace’z ŕli, rīsnt n ny wrcs. It fôc̣sz ptklrli on hiz Retina n Tîm̦emri siyriz, bt olso includz wrcs fṛm ɖ Frost n Sél siriz. Svṛl v Otace’z filmz, anɖr intgṛl pāt v hiz practis, wl olso b scrīnd jrñ ɖ xibišn.
Kretd bî Zība Āḍlan, Fândr/Drctr v Paṛsol ynit fândešn fr cntmprri āt, ɖs xibišn z Šinro Otace’z frst mêjr šo in a public Lundn instityšn. It z acumṗnid bî a fl-culr publicešn, includñ esez bî Māco Livñstn n Žŭlien Bizmŭʈ, n a rletd prôgram v edycešnl ivnts, famli wrcšops, a powtri wrcšop n an ātisțwc at ɖ Jpan Fândešn, Lundn.
Born in 1955 in Tôcio, Šinro Otace z wn v Jpan’z līdñ n most iṇṿtv cntmprri ātists. Hiz practis xtndz fṛm ɖ criešn v vižl-āts projcts n ātistbcs t sând n ācitcčṛl projcts. Šinro Otace wz rīsntli awōdd wn v Jpan’z most prestijs āṭwōdz: Ɖ Êjnsi fr Culčṛl Aferz Ministr’z Awōd fr ɖ Fîn Āts 2013–2014.”
