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Article: Yukinori Yanagi: darkness illuminated the installation artist's monumental, multipart artwork at a derelict industrial site raises questions about tradition and modernity in Japan.(FOCUS ASIA)
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- Art in America
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- December 1, 2008
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IN THE '90s, Yukinori Yanagi and his intelligent and often witty sociopolitical artworks seemed to be everywhere. The Japanese artist's World Flag Ant Farm in the "Aperto" exhibition of the 1993 Venice Biennale earned him a young-artist prize. He did a project at Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and had a solo show at New York's Queens Museum, as well as gallery solos in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris and Zurich. His neon version of Japan's wartime Rising Sun flag, pulsing and changing color and pattern, filled the Broadway window of the Guggenheim Museum's SoHo branch in 1994-95, when Alexandra Munroe's "Japanese Art Since 1945: ...
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