Taro
Izumi
Taro
Izumi
Izumi
Japanese, born in 1976
A spokesman for a generation of Japan’s disillusioned youth, Taro Izumi builds a world based on gambling, chance and cynicism where absurdity always wins. His “bric-a-brac” installations combining eclectic structures, sound, drawings and videos for the most part seem straight out of a play by Eugène Ionesco or Samuel Beckett.
The Japanese artist humorously thwarts the waiting horizon dictated by our daily life and social habits through the most diverse situations. They demonstrate a predilection for the trivial and the derisory to which a constant recourse to salvaged objects is a material response. The minor dramas he stages with overflowing creativity urge us to imagine the inconceivable in everything.
Izumi's mischievous, mordant video Lime at the Bottom of the Lake is in the Pinault Collection. It was shown in 2012 during the exhibition devoted to the moving image, "Parole des Images" (“Word of Images”), at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
The Japanese artist humorously thwarts the waiting horizon dictated by our daily life and social habits through the most diverse situations. They demonstrate a predilection for the trivial and the derisory to which a constant recourse to salvaged objects is a material response. The minor dramas he stages with overflowing creativity urge us to imagine the inconceivable in everything.
Izumi's mischievous, mordant video Lime at the Bottom of the Lake is in the Pinault Collection. It was shown in 2012 during the exhibition devoted to the moving image, "Parole des Images" (“Word of Images”), at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
