Takamatsu's approach to sculpture can be summed up by paraphrasing John Lennon: sculpture is what happens when you're busy looking at other things. This survey of the artist's sculptural works made between 1961 and 1977 presents an obsession with the things that objects can do, rather than the objects themselves. Takamatsu starts at the very edge...
There are certain exhibitions in which some or many of the works on display are so interesting, provocative, or well-made that they somehow manage to surmount whatever restrictive or overwrought critical-theoretical trappings their organizers have erected around them, defying the analytical filters through which they are meant to be considered and...
Jiro Takamatsu: Trajectory of Work is taxonomic, breaking down everything in the artist's oeuvre into relatively neat successions of projects and including his paintings and sculptures, copious sketches and the marginalia. Even the catalog seemingly calls for a scientific approach, this exhibition being the opportunity to 'conduct objective and...
