Isozaki Arata

Isozaki Arata Incubation Process/Joint Core System 1962 / 2011
Mixed media, 122 x 243 x 350cm

ABOUT

Born in Oita, 1931. Graduated with a degree from the University of Tokyo School of Engineering Architecture Department. He created Arata Isozaki & Associates in 1963, and it exists to this day. Beginning with his work in the 1960’s such as the Oita Prefectural Library, when he was based mostly in Oita City, from the 1990’s onward he has expanded his activity around the world to include Barcelona, Holland, Krakov, Okayama, Kyoto, La Coruña, Yamaguchi, Berlin, and then in this century the Middle East, China and Central Asia. More than any other architect, his work reveals in its very construction a collision with politics, society and culture, and a deployment of personal thought and space that transcends ideological boundaries. Because he demonstrates the potential of those primal areas through his manner of construction, he has come to have a huge impact on other areas of knowledge as well. Through his critical writing, and as a judge at architecture competitions, he has also played an immense role in bringing to realization the concepts of radical architects around the world. His more than half a century of work includes philosophy, visual art, design, music, films, and plays, and he is always going beyond the framework of architecture to raise questions that transcend eras and borders.

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Isozaki Arata

Born in 1931 in Oita, Japan
Lives and works in Okinawa, Japan

– Education –

1950-1954　 Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan

– Selected Solo Exhibitions –

2019　 Arata Isozaki: Derivation of Art Tower Mito, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
2019　 Arata Isozaki: Third Space, Oita Art Museum, Oita, Japan
2019　 Arata Isozaki at the Kankai Pavilion, Hara Museum ARC Kankai Pavilion, Gunma, Japan
2018　 Arata Isozaki Public Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2017　 Primordial Line, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015　 Arata Isozaki Museum Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2014　 ISOZAKI Arata: 12 x 5 =60, WATARI-UM, Tokyo, Japan
2014　 Labyrinth in Motion, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2013　 ISOZAKI Arata: SOLARIS, NTT Inter Communication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan
2012　 Arata Isozaki The Global, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2011　 PROCESS, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2010　 Arata Isozaki Built and Unbuilt Architecture, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2009　 Arata Isozaki-Starting from Ruins, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2009　 Arata Isozaki-Prints, Marugame Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2008　 Arata Isozaki-7 Invitations 2008
2008　 Seven Villas, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2008　 Seven Art Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2008　 Seven Curations, Hara Museum ARC, Japan

– Selected Group Exhibitions –

Okamoto Taro x Architecture, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Japan

2020　 Beyond Japan, Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, Kanazawa, Japan
2019　 Multiples, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo
2019　 Impossible Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2019　 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Shizuoka City Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
2018　 Arata Isozaki Talk + Exhibition, Art Plaza, Oita, Japan
2018　 1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
2018　 Japan in Architecture: Genealogies of Its Transformation, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018　 Night Fever. Design und Clubkultur 1960, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2017　 Florence Biennale 2017: eARTh – Creativity & Sustainability, Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy
2017　 Architectures Japonaises à Paris 1867-2017, Pavillion de l’Arsenal, Paris, France
2017　 Architecture on Paper: Architectural Drawings of Japan 1970s – 1990s, National Archives of Modern Architecture, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo, Japan
2017　 Japan-ness. Architecture and Urbanism in Japan since 1945, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2017　 CONTEMPORARY RUINS, KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany(Upcoming)
2017　 Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2017　 Invisible Architecture: 1960s’ and 1970s’ Italian and Japanese architect movement analysis and contemporary debate, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
2016　 Suzhou Documents,Suzhou Art Museum and other venues in Suzhou, Suzhou, China
2016　 The Emergence of Contemporary: Avant-Garde Art in Japan 1950-1970, Paço Imperial, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2016　 Ah, Shinjuku!: the City as Spectacle, Waseda University Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum,Tokyo, Japan
2015　 Group Show, MISA SHIN GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2015　 Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Nagano, Japan
2014　 JAPAN ARCHITECTS 1945-2010, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
2014　 1974: A turning Point in Postwar Japanese Art, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2014　 Legendary Houses in Postwar Japan / PROVOCATIVE / INTROSPECTIVE, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
2013　 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Chun Shang Creative Hub, Taipei, Taiwan
2013　 Yoko Ono Half-A-Window Show A Retrospective, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2012　 Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde, The Museum of Modern Art New York, USA
2012　 Traces of Centuries & Future Steps, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
2011　 METABOLISM: The City of the FUTURE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2011　 POSTMODERNISM: STYLE AND SUBVERSION 1970-1990, Victoria and Alber Museum, London, UK
2010　 CITY2.0-Theory of Evolution by WEB Generation, EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo, Japan