About MOT×BloombergPUBLIC ‘SPACE’ PROJECT
In co-sponsorship with Bloomberg L.P., Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT) has launched the “MOT × Bloomberg PUBLIC ‘SPACE’ PROJECT,” a project aimed at supporting young artists and expanding the public’s access to art, by giving young Asian Pacific artists opportunities to display large-scale works in spaces outside the Museum’s galleries.
As its second project of 2008, following the display of Kimihiko Okada’s “Aluminum Landscape” in the outdoor Sunken Garden until September 28, MOT × Bloomberg will present Louisa Bufardeci’s “Some Material Flags” in the Museum’s broad entrance space.
Louisa Bufardeci (born in Melbourne in 1969, lives and works in Connecticut) creates artworks from a deep interest in the statistical information we employ in analyzing our society. Such statistics as birth rates and smoking rates represent extremely private actions, which have been converted into visual languages so as to provide indices for administrative control or regulation. Bufardeci gives visualization to such data through vivid colors and craft-like creation, in a manner allowing viewers to discern from their own perspective the political character that informs such dry, characterless numbers. She has exhibited at such locations as The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art and Anna Schwartz Gallery and is scheduled to hold a two-artist exhibition with Japanese Artist at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney in 2009.
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