Artist: Tanaka Yonekichi
Technique: Sculpture
After completing the mechanics course at Ube College of Technology, while working as a junior high school teacher, Tanaka submitted two-dimensional works to Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyokai. Later on, he turned to abstract sculpture. He pursues three-dimensional works that positively incorporate the surrounding space. He won the grand prize at the Contemporary Japanese Sculpture Exhibition (UBE Biennale) in 1985. Yonekichi Tanaka began working on a series entitled Docking from 1965 and produced works that divide or continue the three-dimensional space. From the late 1970s, this developed into the Docking (Surface) series, in which the theme was the space encompassing the work. Our museum building designed by Kisho Kurokawa is characterized by a structure of consecutive grids. Taking this structure into account, Tanaka conceived five structures including the part shown in this illustration and docked them with the building. Material-wise, he contrasts tiles, which indicate the continuity of the wall on the exterior, with corten steel, which emphasizes the heterogeneity. As the artist says, an indeed “extraneous space exerting a shocking impact on the environment by means of its sharp-pointed or critical composition that might even slash the horizontality and verticality” was added to the building. (dimensions) The work joined with the building of the museum.
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