STANDING PINE

STANDING PINE is pleased to present a joint exhibition focusing on media artists entitled “In a Laboratory” from Saturday 10th June. This exhibition features three artists, Swiss kinetic artist Pe Lang, Kazufumi Oizumi who has been producing large scale interactive installations using computers, and an art unit intext formed by graphic designers Yusuke Mimasu, Hiroshi Toyama and programmer Takehisa Mashimo.

Pe Lang is a kinetic artist who was born in 1974 in Switzerland and currently lives and works in Switzerland. In a constant process of gaining and losing control, Lang‘s kinetic installation engages a refined and focused exploration of interaction between the kinetic, the visual and the sonic. Although the works are made by combining inorganic mechanical parts, they produce elegant and organic movements and sounds unexpected even by the artists. Lang's works have been shown at many prestigious museums, galleries, and art fairs in the world including Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Gallery Denise René, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; the InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo; Art Basel, Basel and so on.
This exhibition shows some of his new works including “Static” which remains fixed and stands still with a exquisite balance, and “Random” which keeps randomly moving as if a living creature. The works all made by mechanical parts creates a quiet and elegant contrast as if they are an abstract painting or sculpture.

Oizumi has been producing automatic drawing machines and large scale interactive installations since 1991. Oizumi’s works often use the computer, yet he has never called himself a media artist. He questions the narrow characterisation of ‘media art’ as ‘art and technology’ and seeks to revive the diversity of its origins in computer art, re-situating it in art history. His works has been presented at Aichi Triennale 2022 (Aichi), Kobe Biennale(Kobe), Ars Electronica(Linz) and so on.
This exhibition shows his new works from the on-going series “Schrödinger’s kitten”, the installation drawing continuously throughout the exhibition. Considering the predominance of vision over all our senses and the current trend of the fictional experience such as VR and AR, this work re-grounds our physicality in bodily experience through the object in motion in front of our eyes. Do drawings completed over time create abstract beauty as collective intelligence or is this only a fallacy of composition?

Graphic designers Yusuke Mimasu, Hiroshi Toyama and programmer Takehisa Mashimo form intext, reconsidering the present state of text, image and sound media communications, instead giving rise to a universal message in relation to language and culture. Their usual day jobs concerning graphic design or programming requires the mediation of adequate information for humans and computers respectively, but their focal interests lie not in the contents of the mediated information, but rather in the message or experience contained within text, image and sound themselves that help transmit the information. Their works have been shown at a joint exhibition at The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan Media Arts Festival, Kyoto, and Art Basel Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and so on.
This exhibition reconstructs their various projects related to texts and languages and presents the possibility of new communication created from there.

Nowadays, the word “Media art” refers to artworks that are created through use of new media and technology, however, it is difficult to clearly define the meaning and it does not necessarily mean the artworks using cutting-edge technologies. Through the works with various media, combining digital and analogue elements, the audience can take a peek at new possibilities produced in a laboratory of the artists from different countries and generations.

Kazufumi Oizumi , Schrödinger’s Calico , 2023

intext , Mirror / Color , 2021

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