Aglaia Konrad Archives
Installation view from "Research – Progress – Practice #3 Aglaia Konrad Archives " ©︎IACK 2021
Research – Progress – Practice #3
Aglaia Konrad Archives
Dates: Saturday, September 18th - Sunday, October 17th, 2021 *Reservation required
Venue: IACK
IACK is pleased to present the third installment of its “Research – Progress – Practice” series, an archival exhibition by Belgium-based Austrian artist Aglaia Konrad.
Through his photography and film work, Conrad has consistently explored the social, cultural, economic, political and historical factors that influence architecture and urbanism. His latest work,Japan WorksIn this volume, the artist photographs prominent postwar Metabolism buildings dotted around cities such as Tokyo, Itoigawa, Kyoto, Nagoya and Osaka, as well as non-specific buildings that lend a unique impression to the Japanese landscape, attempting to capture cities and the culture and society behind them through this vast collection of photographs.
This exhibition features "Japan WorksIn addition to "Sculpture House," the exhibition will also feature precious past works owned by the artist and other related works collected by IACK. Also on display at the venue will be the video work "Sculpture House" released in 2007, and edition works created for Conrad's exhibition held at the same time at "Keijiban," an exhibition center for edition publications and artworks in Kanazawa.
Through different presentations at two different venues, this is an ambitious attempt to approach the artist's past and present activities.Please take this opportunity to check it out.
[Satellite Exhibition]
"Aglaia Conrad"
Dates: September 15th (Wed) – October 14th (Thu)
Venue: keijiban
〒920-0864 18-13 Takaokacho, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture
www.keijiban.online/jp
Born in Salzburg, Austria in 1960, Konrad is currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Since the 1970s, Konrad has developed a unique photographic and video expression that documents the rapid urbanization process around the world. His archive contains a vast number of images of infrastructure and residential architecture in various cities, which is an infinite treasure trove that sheds a unique light on the relationship between society and space. He has exhibited his work at international art festivals such as the 10th Documenta and at museums around the world, and has received the Otto Mauer Prize in Vienna in 1997, the Graz Camera Prize in 2003, the Albert-Lengher-Pazel Prize from the Dietrich Openberg Foundation in 2007, and the Fernand Bodin Prize in 2011. In his latest book, Japan Works, published by Roma Publications in the Netherlands in 2021, Konrad presented a series of photographs he took around Japanese cities.
www.aglaiakonrad.com
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[Notes for visitors]
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