STANDING PINE

STANDING PINE is pleased to hold a group exhibition entitled “Our Bodies” featuring seven artists of the 70s, Bas Jan Ader, Vito Acconci, Kazuo Okazaki, Koji Enokura, Chu Enoki, Hiroshi Fujii and Shu Takagi from Saturday 25th November. This exhibition shows mainly their photography works or documentary photographs that recorded their performance.

Bastiaan Johan Christiaan "Bas Jan" Ader (1942 – disappeared 1975) was a Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker. Ader was lost at sea in 1975, attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the US to England sailing in the smallest boat with which the voyage has ever been attempted. His deserted vessel was found off the coast of Ireland in 1976, offering few clues as to his fate. Nowadays, even more than 40 years after his disappearance at sea, he has been more influential than ever before. This exhibition shows one of his signature photography works “I’m Too Sad to Tell You”, which is also included in the collection at MOMA (New York). It is a mixed media artwork includes a three-minute black-and-white silent film, still photographs and a post card all related to him crying for an unknown reason.

Vito Acconci (1940 – 2017) was an American performance, video and installation artist. He was initially interested in radical poetry, but by the late 1960s, he began creating Situationist-influenced performances in the street or for small audiences that explored the body and public space. His work is considered to have influenced many artists of the same and next generation. This exhibition shows a documentary photograph that recorded his performance.

Kazuo Okazaki (1930 – 2022) was known as an artist who has continued to create various art objects by referring to everyday objects and images and inverting its truth. He established an idea called “Gyobutsu Hoi/ Object Supplément” that supplements what the traditional ways of viewing objects have overlooked. The idea for his signature work “HISASHI” came from the eaves of buildings and it has been known as the work expresses precisely the concept he has called a “supplement,” since 1977. In his self-portrait photograph “Tebisashi / Self Portrait”, the artist himself made a pose with his right hand forming like a sun visor. Okazaki stated, “Hands are always lying between objects and me and they appear in front of all the things that exist in the world.”

The exhibition includes Koji Enokura（1942-1995）, who was one of the “Mono-ha” artists, an art movement led by Japanese and Korean artists of 20th-century; Chu Enoki（1944-）, who took part in creative activities as a member of “JAPAN KOBE ZERO”, an avant-garde artists group, and produced a remarkable work entitled ” Went to Hungary with HANGARI”; Hiroshi Fujii（1942-）and Shu Takagi’s (1944-) ‘s photography works and documentary photographs recording their performance events as well.

They created artworks with the body, often that of the artist, as the principal medium and focus and expanded the possibility of body art in the history of contemporary art. Body art encompassing a variety of different approaches invites the audience to reconsider the importance of our bodies, the relation between individual and society and strong connection between body and mind.

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