There is a blog – I think based in France – which I’ve mentioned here before, Murmure Visible. The writer, Marie-Andree Cote and I share a similar taste in artists. I often find new artists on her site and see ones I’ve written about on hers as well. I have no idea if she’s ever been over here but it’s just so nice to know that someone else out there and I have a common eye! Yesterday, in the snow here in Boston, I was perusing her site and fell in love with Yuriko Yamaguchi’s wall art / sculptures.
I love that her pieces look like clouds and vary in their depth of color and yet are made of plastic tubing, cut to various lengths, glued together. It’s reminiscent of Tara Donovan’s straw pieces. Of her work, Yuriko says, “I like to engage in creating works in which the materials, time, and labor become life itself. I prefer not to perceive the end result before I start a work. I prefer taking the time to discover in the process a successful planned construction. My works continue to evolve and change until I arrive at a state of satisfaction.”
The above piece is only listed as being made of resin. I have no idea how resin acts as a material – I’d always thought of it as an external coating or maybe an adhesive in some cases but never as a standalone material.
More tubing – this time more regular and clear to see. It looks like maybe this is at its max depth perhaps 3 or 4 inches, which would be possible to have in one’s home unlike some other pieces I’ve looked at recently.
Resin and wire – I love that this is reminiscent of my yurt shape – it looks like an igloo or home of some kind but obviously made of featherweight, non-enclosed materials.
For Yuriko this seems like a divergent type of piece and actually reminds me of Mona Hatoum’s intestines piece that I wrote up when I started this blog.
This to me almost looks like a cluster of butterflies. One thing I really love is that Yuriko has a great website with lots of information and detail and she has obviously taken a great deal of care with how her pieces are lit, photographed, etc.
Again, another departure into cast bronze. She works in many different materials. She calls this piece, “Rapture” naturally. It looks like my Jonathan Adler vase!
A close up – I love ombre as well.
Tags: 3D, installation, resin, sculpture, wall art, weightless, wire