CHIHARU SHIOTA - BEYOND TIME at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP)

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CHIHARU SHIOTA - BEYOND TIME

30 March–4 November 2018 Chapel

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP)

Internationally acclaimed installation and performance artist #chiharushiota creates an awe-inspiring, site-specific installation of woollen thread within the beautiful 18th-century Chapel at #yorkshiresculpturepark (YSP).

Born in Japan, the Berlin-based artist has received critical recognition worldwide for large-scale works such as The Key In The Hand (2015), an elaborate entanglement of red thread and keys, which she made when selected to represent Japan at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Her radical yet poetic artistic approach explores personal themes of loss and memory through intricately woven installations, referencing life, death and belonging.

At YSP, Shiota’s sweeping web of white thread emerges from a steel structure referencing a musical instrument no longer there. Rising from the chancery, it is an ethereal composition floating towards the heavens. Drawing from the history of the building, the work responds to and activates the Chapel’s unique heritage, revisiting and honouring architectural elements that no longer exist.

Woven from 2,000 balls of wool, Shiota’s use of white marks a recent departure from the familiar red and black thread for which she has become known. Characteristic of her work’s resonance with memory and human relationships, the installation interlaces the physical and conceptual to create a new visual plane – as if painting in mid-air.

An extraordinary and captivating experience, Beyond Time references the Chapel’s rich history and years of human presence, dating back to 1744, making poignant allusion to the bells that were rung, the songs that were sung, and the lives that revolved around it, from cradle to grave.

Born 1972 in Osaka, Shiota initially studied painting at Seika University, Kyoto. During this time, she undertook an exchange residency at Canberra School of Art, Australia. It was here that she began to explore the boundaries of painting, staging her first performance, Becoming Painting (1994), in which she used her body as a canvas. She moved to Germany in 1996 and continued her studies, firstly in Braunschweig and later Berlin, where she lives today. Her installations began receiving international attention in 2000, primarily through the group exhibition Continental Shift at the Ludwig Forum, Aachen and also the 2001 Yokohama Triennale.

An artist-designed limited edition print accompanies the exhibition and will be available to purchase, with all proceeds supporting YSP.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time coincides with the launch of the new Arts Council Collection touring exhibition, In My Shoes: Art and the Self since the 1990s (30 March–17 June 2018) at YSP’s Longside Gallery. The media preview of both exhibitions will take place on 28 March 2018.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Shiota’s work has been exhibited in major museums around the world including MoMA PS1, New York (2003); La Maison Rouge, Paris (2011); The Museum of Art, Kochi (2013); Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Washington D.C. (2014); Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, Düsseldorf (2015); and KODE Art Museums and Composer Homes, Norway (2017–18). She has participated in the Sydney Biennale, 2016; Venice Biennale, 2015; Aichi Triennale, 2010; Gwangju Biennale, 2006 and Yokohama Triennale, 2001, amongst others. Her works are included in The Leopold Private Collection, Vienna; 21st Century Museum of #contemporaryart, Kanazawa; The Hoffmann Collection, Berlin and The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. She is the recipient of numerous notable prizes including the Philip Morris Art Awards and the Audience Choice Award at The First Kyiv International Biennale of #contemporaryart. Her achievements also include set design for several major theatrical and operatic productions including Daniel Karasek’s Tristan and Isolde at Theater Kiel, Germany.

ABOUT #yorkshire SCULPTURE PARK

Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) is the leading international centre for modern and contemporary sculpture which celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2017. It is an independent charitable trust and registered museum (number 1067908) situated in the 500-acre, 18th-century Bretton Hall estate in West #yorkshire. Founded in 1977 by Executive Director Peter Murray, YSP was the first sculpture park in the UK, and is the largest of its kind in Europe, providing the only place in Europe to see Barbara Hepworth’s The Family of Man in its entirety alongside a significant collection of sculpture, including bronzes by Henry Moore and site-specific works by Andy Goldsworthy, David Nash and James Turrell.

YSP mounts a world-class, year-round temporary exhibitions programme including some of the world’s leading artists across five indoor galleries and the open air. Recent highlights include exhibitions by Alfredo Jaar, Tony Cragg, Not Vital, KAWS, Bill Viola, Anthony Caro, Fiona Banner, Ai Weiwei, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Amar Kanwar, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Joan Miró and Jaume Plensa. More than 80 works on display across the estate include major sculptures by Phyllida Barlow, Ai Weiwei, Roger Hiorns, Sol LeWitt, Joan Miró and Dennis Oppenheim.

YSP’s driving purpose for 40 years has been to encourage, nurture and sustain interest in and debate around #contemporaryart and sculpture, especially with those not typically familiar with art participation. It enables open access to art, situations and ideas, and continues to re-evaluate and expand the approach to considering art’s role and relevance in society. Supporting 45,000 people each year through YSP’s learning programme, this innovative work develops ability, confidence and life aspiration in participants.

YSP’s core work is made possible by investment from Arts Council England, Wakefield Council, Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation and Sakurako and William Fisher through the Sakana Foundation. YSP was named Art Fund Museum of the Year in 2014.

SOCIAL MEDIA

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