Shinji Turner-Yamamoto: Global Tree Project - Hardcover

Graham, Patricia; Ludwig, Justine

9788862082280: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto: Global Tree Project

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8862082282 ISBN 13: 9788862082280

Publisher: Damiani, 2012

The Global Tree Project is an international art initiative from artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto (born 1965) that seeks to open and affirm connections between audiences and the natural world. Working with identifiable imagery the artist encourages audiences to encounter aspects of nature and therein to discover commonality and connection. Site-specific installations, sculpture, and paintings in venues throughout the world reopen our connection with nature, to be whole in a society integrated in environmentalism with a new vision through it. The projects explore a poetic reunion with nature, making visible bonds and similarities between plant life and humanity, emphasizing ecological wisdom and the interconnectedness of all life. They illuminate our mutual destiny and the precarious beauty of this relationship. The selected projects documented in the Shinji Turner-Yamamoto: Global Tree Project transport viewers to a ruined folly on a cliff overlooking the Celtic Sea, to the Sutra Hall of the 8th century Kiyomizu Temple, a garden in New Delhi, and on to the Mongolian Gobi Desert, and abandoned architectural landmarks in the American Midwest. Included are essays by Patricia J. Graham, Justine Ludwig, Kuninori Matsuda, Sarah Tanguy, and the artist.

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About the Author:

Born in Osaka, Japan, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto studied fresco at the Kyoto City University of Arts. Sponsored by the Italian government, he studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna, where he lived for eleven years. Turner-Yamamoto's work has been the subject of solo shows at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. His prizes include the 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award; the Gold Leaf Award, International Society of Arborioculture; UNESCO-ASCHBERG Bursaries for Artists; P�pini�res Europ�ennes pour Jeunes Artistes; first prize from the Targetti Light Art Collection. Turner-Yamamoto lives and works in Cincinnati, Ohio and Washington, DC.

Review:

"The Global Tree Project" shows off Shinji Turner-Yamamoto's enchanting site-specific installations, including the birch trees he suspended in the nave of an abandoned 19th-century chapel in Cincinnati.

New York Times T Magazine | remix BOOKSHELF | 19 August 2012

[...] As one pondered it--and "Hanging Garden" encouraged the kind of devoted attention that a James Turrell light projection elicits [...] the interconnectedness of life; the way nature can resurrect and inject meaning into dead architecture.

Steven Rosen | CityBeat | 22 August 2012

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