Everything Comes in Waves, installation view at La Scatola Gallery London ©Kentaro Yamada

Thursday 6 June – Friday 26 July 2019

Everything Comes in Waves by Kentaro Yamada

13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP

Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation

The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to introduce the London-based Japanese artist Kentaro Yamada to the UK public.

Yamada is interested in the encounter between material history and humankind’s subjectivity. As subjective and creative beings, humans have been intuitively trying to create meanings out of our natural surroundings for millions of years.

The artist creates poetic situations that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. He reminds us that values born out of human history provide a partial view of the world and seeks to place this story within broader physical contexts, exploring different scales from the hand-held to the cosmic and from the instantaneous to the universal.

In this exhibition, Kentaro Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints that he created in 2011 after the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation that connect to a larger notion of cosmic space and time.

This exhibition is curated by Francesca von Zedtwitz-Arnim.

The exhibition will be open till 8pm on the following dates:

Thursday 6th June
Tuesday 11th June
Friday 21st June
Tuesday 25th June
Monday 1st July
Thursday 4th July
Friday 26th July

The exhibition will also be open on the following Saturday:

Saturday 20th July 3pm-7pm

About the contributors

Kentaro Yamada

Kentaro Yamada (b.1978) completed an MFA at The School of Art Institute of Chicago and Goldsmiths with Distinction. He has been exhibiting internationally and recent exhibitions include: Perfume Shop, The Ryder Projects (2019), Common Third, Copperfield (2018); Sound of Scent, Victoria and Albert Museum (2017); before breakfast we talked about the furthest possible point before it all disappeared, Tenderpixel, London UK (2014); b.d., MARS!, Munich, Germany (2014); All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: From Interactive To Interpassive, Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan (2013).

Related events:

6 June 2019

Private view

Private View: Everything Comes in Waves by Kentaro Yamada

The Private View was a chance to have a first look at Kentaro Yamada’s exhibition ‘Everything Comes in Waves’. Yamada creates poetic installations and structures that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. In this exhibition, Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation, creating a space to experience encounters of human creativity and materials, and the two coming together as one, as part of a larger Life in cosmic space and time. This exhibition is curated by Francesca von Zedtwitz-Arnim.

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4 July 2019

Artist talk

Kentaro Yamada in conversation with Mark Rappolt (Art Review)

The artist Kentaro Yamada discussed his work and exhibition Everything Comes in Waves with Mark Rappolt, the Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview and ArtReview Asia. Yamada creates poetic installations and structures that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. In this exhibition, Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation, creating a space to experience encounters of human creativity and materials, and the two coming together as one, as part of a larger Life in cosmic space and time.

More info