Balance by John K. Grande

Author:John K. Grande
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

It was Tadashi Kawamata, whose site specific work, Favela, (1991) aroused the strongest public controversy both locally and nationally. The best known of all Japan's latest generation of artists, Kawamata has more recently worked in Paris connecting several adjacent rooftops by creating one of his dramatic assemblages of wood. Intended to contrast the strict formalism of Cornelia Oberlander's reconstruction of a Northern Taiga landscape in which it was situated, Favela consisted of thirty-five wooden huts made from scrap lumber. Intended as a comment on the poverty-stricken shanty towns that have sprung up in Rio de Janeiro as a result of overpopulation, the Ottawa work seemed more like an exercise in pure political opportunism. Had this piece actually been constructed in Rio, Kawamata's "aesthetic" statement would probably have been ignored and the materials stolen to actually build homes.

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