Opening: Feb.11th 2010 at 5.30 p.m.
From Feb.11th 2010 – Feb.25th 2010
Wed. to Sat. 1-6 p.m.
Contact: Alessandro Mangiarotti – Katarina Dear
Galerie YellowFishArt3684 Boul.St.Laurent
H2X 2V4 Montreal
Tel. 514.840.0808
www.yellowfishart.com
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‘Casa’ is a rice paper meditation on the theme of ‘home’. The installation evokes the fragility of our belonging to a single dwelling through the use of an evanescent material traditionally reserved for interior separations in Japanese homes. In size, this house is a 4 1/2 – in this case, the traditional four and one half tatami mat size of the Japanese ascetic’s hillside meditation hut.
Inspired by such culture-bridging works as Hidetoshi Nagasawa’s ‘Luogo dei Fiore’ (1985) and ‘Giardino Rovesciato’ (2008) the spiral enclosure of “Casa” evokes the symbolic separation between inside and outside at the center of the concept of home. Light pours in through the walls of this Casa, borrowing at once from ancient Japanese minimal design and from 20th century Western minimalism to create a nexus between the traditional and the contemporary, between the inside and the outside, and between the cosy feeling of “home” and the alienating sense of an unknowable other.
Kanako Noda was born in 1980 in Kitakyushu, Japan. After graduating in cultural anthropology from Osaka University (Japan), she studied Art in Italy. Enrolling in the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, she studied painting under contemporary Italian artists. While she was student she participated in several group exhibitions in Japan and in Italy ( “At-test” 2009) and solo shows including “Crune” (2008), “Yellow project” (2009) in Italy and “Seesaw” (2009) in Japan. Soon after the graduation from Bologna’s Accademia, she moved to Canada. She lives and works in Montreal.
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Inspirée par les travaux de Hidetoshi Nagasawa (“Luogo dei Fiore”, 1985; “Giardino Rovesciato”, 2008), “Casa” s’inscrit dans une démarche transculturelle, empruntant à la fois aux traditions décoratives japonaises et au courant minimaliste occidental. L’enceinte en spirale de “Casa” matérialise la séparation symbolique entre extérieur et intérieur, clivage qui se trouve au cœur du concept d’habitation. La lumière pénètre et traverse les murs de “Casa”: le traditionnel et le contemporain se trouvent fusionnés, l’intérieur et l’extérieur s’enchevêtrent, le sentiment rassurant associé au chez-soi se mêle à l’aliénante angoisse de l’Autre.
Kanako Noda est née en 1980 à Kitakyushu, au Japon. Après l’obtention d’un diplôme en anthropologie culturelle à l’Université d’Osaka, elle étudie les Beaux Arts en Italie. Inscrite à l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, elle s’initie à la peinture sous la direction des maîtres italiens contemporains. Durant ses années de formation, elle participe à de nombeuses expositions collectives (“At-test”, 2009), en plus de concevoir des expositions solo (“Crune”, 2008; “Yellow project”, 2009; “Seesaw”, 2009), et ce, tant au Japon qu’en Italie. Son apprentissage complété, elle quitte Bologne et s’établit au Canada. Kanako Noda vit et travaille à Montréal.
