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Mutsumi Tsuda |
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Mutsumi
Tsuda - Looking
at the impact of the war on people's lives:
For example people from the same era: her grandfather (Japan) and Dr. Oppenheimer
(USA), and the long term impact of the war on the descendants of Japanese immigrants
in the French Pacific colony of New-Caledonia. After Pearl Harbour, Japanese
immigrants on this island were arrested, their properties confiscated and sent
to concentration camps. After the war, they were forcibly repatriated to Japan,
leaving their local wives and children behind.
Tsuda's
work is based on interviews with the children and grandchildren
of these repatriated Japanese. Although these Japanese New Caledonians
have kept their surname, most do not know how to speak Japanese
and have no contact with their Japanese fathers, grandfathers
and relatives.
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Keiji Usami |
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| Keiji
Usami’s Mushroom
Cloud Series evolved from his ‘ man shapes’ that
he created in the 60s. In Mushroom Cloud, lines
and circles suggest a universe/relationships in which everything
is tightly correlated. The spheres contain figures in different
poses - bending, standing and throwing, and just outside
of these spheres, figures radiating from the circumference and
merging with the background to suggest freedom and hope for the future. |
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Kazuya Kanemaru |
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Little
Japan was developed so that the creator (Kazuya
Kanemaru) and any volunteer could travel to towns and
villages on it. The purpose of the journey is to find a place
to launch the attached balloon (shaped similarly to Little
Boy, the nuclear weapon that was actually used for
the first time in Japan). Kanemarue wonders from town
to town until he finds an adequate spot to launch the balloon.
During
the journey, Kanemaru interview people who he encounter
and get their opinion on Little Japan. The interviews
are recorded on video and audio tapes so that they could be presented
to public in exhibitions around the world. |
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Alexis Hunter |
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Alexis Hunter
will be carrying out a workshop - "Artist Painting on Site" from
11July to 24 September 2005 (at specific times). This presents an opportunity for the public to meet and discuss with the
artist Alexis Hunter as she creates in the Brunei Gallery Nuclear Daemon
on canvas.
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Mircea Roman |
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'The person is shackled to the wall and
trying to come undone, to break loose, to be free. As today 'freedom'
means to think like everybody else, to look like everybody else and
to act like everybody else, we realised that the wall is within us
all. Thus we have to struggle with our discerning powers and dignity
in order to reach spirituality.'
Mircea Roman
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Jacqueline Morreau |
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| Much of Jacqueline
Morreau's
work has dealt with political and social issues. Although controversial
when first shown, over the years it has come to reflect more orthodox
views, as what had been radical attitudes towards feminism and anti-war
protest became more widely accepted. None the less, the opposition
to war depicted in Morreau's triptych in After
Hiroshima remains
as topical and valid now as it was at the time of the first Gulf
Oil War. |
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Tolleck Winner |
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"I
think every artist duty is to show through their art what they
see or hear all around us. I always wanted to show in my art
the truth and the emotions of everyday lives of ordinary people.
If my audiences see what I see and feel in my art? - I am fulfilled as an artist."
Tolleck Winner 2005 |
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