About thirty international artists participate in the exhibition ‘Godzilla The Art’ in Tokyo, a exhibition where they invite you to question what we see on a day -to -day basis through their representations of the creature, which translate from ‘Fake News’ to cardboard toys or wood giants.
The exhibition, which consists of more than 40 works, seeks to contribute “a new experience to the audience,” Jin Qiuyu tells Efe, during the press release held this Friday at the Mori Arts Center Gallery, one day before her opening to the public.
“We wanted to create a space that allowed the public to ask some questions, such as: What are we seeing? Both inside and outside the exhibition,” explains the conservative.
It is impossible to define Godzilla in one word, the organizers reflect, since their different representations symbolize each era and have been shown as a different being according to the director who has directed it in each film delivery.
The exhibition raises the question throughout the tour: ‘What is Godzilla?
The visitor is received by the psychedelia of Japanese Tadanori Yokoo and his work ‘Paradise’, to shortly after entering an informative where we are talking about false news about a dragon that is inspired by Godzilla.
The exhibition continues with a room full of japan landscape models where you can intuit the destruction of the creature and another instance dominated by the imposing wood sculpture ‘The One’, by the Japanese artist Motohiko Odani, of a ‘Kaiju’, as the giant and strange monsters are called in which Godzilla is encompassed.
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The works collected in the exhibition cover various formats and materials, from photographs to glass, cardboard or canvases, including one of the actor Tadanobu Asano, recent awarded with the Golden Globe for his role in the acclaimed series ‘Shogun’.
In addition to Japanese creators, the Indonesian Roby Dwi Antono, Thai Pex Pitakpong, Frenchman Jean Jullien, British James Jarvis, Koreans Noh Sangcho and Stickymonger, and the Spanish Julio Anaya Cabanding participate in the sample.
Anaya, recognized for her cardboard works, exposes two works, the representation of a damaged picture after the supposed passage through a monster museum and a Godzilla paint the size of a toy with a strong sentimental connotation.
“My parents gave me a Godzilla toy when I was a child and it was my favorite toy. The problem was that my little brother was dying of fear (seeing him). So one day my father threw him in the trash without telling me anything. I never saw him again,” Anaya explains with the work about his decision to represent him in that way.
His father threw him and he recovered it from the garbage in this way.
“Godzilla is a legendary character who has an indelible place in science fiction. But for me, even now, Godzilla is the memory of a toy,” says the Malaga.
The exhibition ‘Godzilla The Art’, organized as part of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the creature on November 3, when the first film reached Japanese rooms in 1954, will remain open until June 29.
With EFE information.
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