Showing posts with label uranium chandeliers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label uranium chandeliers. Show all posts

Thursday, November 21, 2013

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / SINGAPORE BIENNALE



An interesting review of Ken + Julia Yonetani's work at the Singapore Biennale by Clara Chow for Singapore's The Strait Times.

Ken + Julia Yonetani are currently exhibiting as part of the 2013 Singapore Biennale. The Biennale officially opens to the public as of tomorrow, 26 October 2013 and runs until 16 February 2014.

Friday, October 25, 2013

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / SINGAPORE BIENNALE





 Install shots from Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations_2012-13

Ken + Julia Yonetani are currently exhibiting as part of the 2013 Singapore Biennale. The Biennale officially opens to the public as of tomorrow, 26 October 2013 and runs until 16 February 2014.


The fourth edition of Singapore’s premier contemporary art exhibition, this year's Biennale is titled If The World Changed. The curatorial premise behind the exhibition explores how "the rich cultures and geographies of the Southeast Asian region have historically been the corridor of the world's major civilisations. The ebb and flow of these complex cultural interactions have yielded responses of accommodation and resistance, leaving legacies of layering and sedimentation within the varied communities.

In the 21st century, the speed of transformation in Southeast Asia is perhaps beyond anything experienced by preceding generations. This change is prompting multiple conceptions and perceptions of time and our worlds, both the external and internal.

Against this backdrop of past and continuous change, artists have been reflecting, mediating, envisioning, and making propositions. If The World Changed, the title of the 4th Singapore Biennale, is an invitation to artists to respond to and reconsider the worlds we live in, and the worlds we want to live in."

If the world changed, what are our propositions and possibilities?"

Featuring a bold, new collaborative curatorial structure that comprises a team of co-curators, this year's Singapore Biennale has been curated by a team of twenty curators from across the Asia Pacific region. A list of all of the Curators and Artists involved in the Singapore Biennale can be seen here.

As part of the Singapore Biennale Ken + Julia Yonetani are exhibiting all 31 chandeliers from the Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations series.

Friday, July 19, 2013

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / ZK/U BERLIN OPEN STUDIO


Ken + Julia Yonetani_Crystal Palace (Germany)_2012_52 x 52 x 37cm_antique chandelier frames, uranium glass beads, wire, uv light bulbs, electric component

Ken + Julia Yonetani are currently in Germany undertaking an artist residency at ZK/U Berlin.

They have been working on completing their Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations series of uranium chandeliers, in which there will be 31 in total to represent the countries which currently operate nuclear power stations.

ZK/U will be hosting an open studio next week on Friday 25 July 2013, allowing members of the public an insight into the works the artists have created during their residence. Ken + Julia will have their newest completed uranium chandeliers for display, before all 31 works are shown at the Singapore Biennale from October 2013 - February 2014.

Fifteen of the Crystal Palace chandeliers were exhibited at Artereal Gallery in October 2012. You can learn more about that exhibition by clicking here.



ZK/U Berlin: Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin, Germany
Free Entry, open from 6pm - 10pm on 25 July 2013

Thursday, July 18, 2013

KEN + JULIA YONETANI SELECTED FOR THE SINGAPORE BIENNALE...




Install shots from Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations_2012


Congratulations to Ken + Julia Yonetani who have been selected as finalists in the 2013 Singapore Biennale. The Biennale will run from 26th Oct 2013 - 16th Feb 2014.

The fourth edition of Singapore’s premier contemporary art exhibition this year's Biennale is titled If The World Changed. The curatorial premise behind the exhibition explores how "the rich cultures and geographies of the Southeast Asian region have historically been the corridor of the world's major civilisations. The ebb and flow of these complex cultural interactions have yielded responses of accommodation and resistance, leaving legacies of layering and sedimentation within the varied communities.

In the 21st century, the speed of transformation in Southeast Asia is perhaps beyond anything experienced by preceding generations. This change is prompting multiple conceptions and perceptions of time and our worlds, both the external and internal.

Against this backdrop of past and continuous change, artists have been reflecting, mediating, envisioning, and making propositions. If The World Changed, the title of the 4th Singapore Biennale, is an invitation to artists to respond to and reconsider the worlds we live in, and the worlds we want to live in."

If the world changed, what are our propositions and possibilities?"

Featuring a bold, new collaborative curatorial structure that comprises a team of co-curators, this year's Singapore Biennale will be curated by a team of twenty curators from across the Asia Pacific region. A list of all of the Curators and Artists involved in the Singapore Biennale can be seen here.

As part of the Singapore Biennale Ken + Julia Yonetani will be exhibiting all 31 chandeliers from the Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations series.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / QUT ART MUSEUM


Ken + Julia Yonetani_Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations (USA)_2012_antique chandelier frame, uranium glass beads, wire, uv light bulbs, electric component


Currently showing at the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum (QUT), Foundation's Edge: artists and technology presents artists who, rather than adhering to the intended use of technological devices, push them to realise their potential as an art medium.

Running from 15 March - 26 May 2013, the group exhibition features nine uranium chandeliers by Ken + Julia Yonetani. The chandeliers are part of the Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nuclear Nations series, in which the glowing installation of unique chandeliers are in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011.

"While we live in an electronic age, we also live in the shadow of an energy crisis. It is a given that the time will come when supply will no longer meet demand, and that the fossil fuel model of energy production is—as the term suggests—a fossil. What is left is a handful of sustainable alternatives and nuclear energy." - Foundation's Edge: artists and technology Catalogue

With a total of thirty-one chandeliers expected to be created for the series, fifteen were exhibited in a solo exhibition at Artereal Gallery in October-November 2012. To read more about the series, click here.

To learn more about the QUT exhibition and artists, click here.

Friday, October 5, 2012

KEN + JULIA YONETANI / IN THE MEDIA





Ken + Julia Yonetani's latest exhibition Crystal Palace: The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nuclear Nations opened last night. The exhibition features an installation of fifteen chandeliers made from glowing, neon green Uranium glass.

A response to the recent and disastrous Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant incident which followed a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year, the exhibition has so far received significant media coverage from the following media outlets:

The Australian
Vogue Magazine (current issue)

The Crystal Palace exhibition at Artereal takes place as the Yonetanis’ extremely well received solo exhibition, What the Birds Knew, at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art is extended until November 3rd - the closing date for both shows.

The artists will also be holding an Artist Talk at Artereal Gallery on Saturday 20 October at 12pm.