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 is interested in the encounter between material history and humankind’s subjectivity. As subjective and creative beings, we have been trying intuitively to make 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.

Listing image credit: Neandertal Perfume, 2014-ongoing © Kentaro Yamada

A video of the talk can be found here:

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