Yutaka Sone
27 Nov 2013 - 25 Jan 2014
YUTAKA SONE
Sculpture
27 November 2013 - 25 January 2014
David Zwirner is pleased to present Sculpture, an exhibition by Yutaka Sone in the London gallery. The show brings together the artist’s three sculptures of island cities—Hong Kong Island (Chinese) (1998), Little Manhattan (2007–2009), and the recently completed Venezia (2013)—each metropolis intricately miniaturized into a single block of marble. Exhibited together for the first time, they span over twenty years of Sone’s practice, and occupy a momentous part of his oeuvre.
Also exhibited is a new large-scale Canary Island palm tree made from rattan woven around a metal armature. Carefully crafted at the artist’s studio in Mexico, the leaves, stems, and trunk have been hand-painted and include naturally occurring flaws in their pigmentation. From a distance, the tree looks like its living counterpart, offering an almost perfect mimesis that echoes the perfectionism of the marble sculptures.
Born in 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan, Sone studied fine art and architecture at the Tokyo Geijutsu University. In 1999, the artist joined David Zwirner, where he had his first United States solo exhibition that same year, marking the first of five at the gallery in New York. Sone’s work is currently part of a two-person exhibition done in collaboration with Benjamin Weissman at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in California, on view until April 5. The artist’s work was recently the subject of two solo exhibitions in Tokyo: Perfect Moment at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2011 and Snow at the Maison Hermès Le Forum in 2010. Baby Banana Tree, the artist’s 25-foot tall hand-painted sculpture, was installed in 2009 as a major public artwork at the Boone Sculpture Garden at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.
Sculpture
27 November 2013 - 25 January 2014
David Zwirner is pleased to present Sculpture, an exhibition by Yutaka Sone in the London gallery. The show brings together the artist’s three sculptures of island cities—Hong Kong Island (Chinese) (1998), Little Manhattan (2007–2009), and the recently completed Venezia (2013)—each metropolis intricately miniaturized into a single block of marble. Exhibited together for the first time, they span over twenty years of Sone’s practice, and occupy a momentous part of his oeuvre.
Also exhibited is a new large-scale Canary Island palm tree made from rattan woven around a metal armature. Carefully crafted at the artist’s studio in Mexico, the leaves, stems, and trunk have been hand-painted and include naturally occurring flaws in their pigmentation. From a distance, the tree looks like its living counterpart, offering an almost perfect mimesis that echoes the perfectionism of the marble sculptures.
Born in 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan, Sone studied fine art and architecture at the Tokyo Geijutsu University. In 1999, the artist joined David Zwirner, where he had his first United States solo exhibition that same year, marking the first of five at the gallery in New York. Sone’s work is currently part of a two-person exhibition done in collaboration with Benjamin Weissman at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in California, on view until April 5. The artist’s work was recently the subject of two solo exhibitions in Tokyo: Perfect Moment at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2011 and Snow at the Maison Hermès Le Forum in 2010. Baby Banana Tree, the artist’s 25-foot tall hand-painted sculpture, was installed in 2009 as a major public artwork at the Boone Sculpture Garden at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California.