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Light Installation by Kyota Takahashi
Kyota TAKAHASHI, a sculptor of the light
Kyota TAKAHASHI is a Kyoto based artist using the light as material of sculpture.
He is known as the author of the light installations at Nijojo Castle in Kyoto
and at the United Nations University in Tokyo last year. This time he made a light
installation at "City House Sengawa", a large housing complex designed by Japanese
famous architect, Tadao Ando Architect & Associates. Tadao Ando Architect & Associates
is now designing buildings in this area including a museum."City House Sengawa"
is the first building to be completed.
Artist talk: May 30, 2004
Guest: Shigeki Hattori, graf, deisgner
Kyota Takahashi, Artist
1970 |
Born in Kyoto, JAPAN |
| 1995 |
MA from Graduate School of Kyoto City University of Arts |
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Awarded Grand Prize at Kirin Contemporary Art Award'95 |
| 1996 |
Solo exhibition, Kirin Plaza, Osaka, Japan |
| 2001 |
Selected for the first Art Scholarship 2001(Selected by Toshio Shimizu) |
| 2002 |
Recipient of the special bounty program of art and cultÇìure
in Kyoto |
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Artist in Residence in France |
| 2003 |
Solo exhibition, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan |
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Group exhibition "Edges of the Earth", China Academy of Art, Hangzhou,
China |
He has done many light Installations at various venues in Japan; Kyoto Art Center(2001),
Kobe(2001), Kyoto Nijyo-castle(2003), United Nations University(2003), Tokyo and
so on. Also he has created live images with his machine and done live performance
in collaboration with many artists in different genre. |
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