Arata Isozaki<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">vs</span><br /><br />Aiko Miyawaki<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6113147145_3c23e16055_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6067/6113147145_3c23e16055_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 463px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />“I have the sense that I have always been looking for how to say something... <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">For me, making shapes is not my final goal, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">what I have sought is something completely different</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">. </span>How should I express it? I might say something like that which isn’t, the spirit that Oscar Wilde said was hidden behind all things. While there are all sorts of methods and materials, such as tableaux or reliefs or three-dimensional works, to the degree that their focus is on creating a form, you cannot thoroughly, actually grasp this thing that isn’t. That is why more than calling what I make sculpture, it might be better to call them a medium, and when the gaze that falls on them is a mixture of transparent, semi-transparent, reflective or refractive, then something completely different appears.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >I am seeking that instant, that moment....</span><br /><br /><br /><br />“In the fall of 1962, I spent several hours on a street corner in Paris, watching the sun set, and as it got darker, it had a great effect on me....<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> I lost all interest in stories which have a beginning, and an end, in bold shapes, bright colors.</span></span> Then I started to make works that seem to have<span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> no beginning, no end.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">text by </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Aiko Miyawaki</span>,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">image above:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> Arata Isozaki</span>,<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> Hotel Silken Puerta America</span>, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">photo by Rafael Vargas</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://thesefields.blogspot.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">the search began here..</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span> thank you.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">---------------</span><br /><br /><br /><br />

Arata Isozaki vs Aiko Miyawaki “I have the sense that I have always been looking for how to say something... For me, making shapes is not my...

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