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Kazuya Tsuji’s
Ripples
winner of
GALERIE8 Grange Garden Sculpture Prize
Ripples
winner of
GALERIE8 Grange Garden Sculpture Prize
Kazuya Tsuji, Study for Grange Gardens Proposal, 2011
Image courtesy of the Artist
GALERIE8 is pleased to announce Kazuya Tsuji’s proposal Ripples as the winner of the Grange Garden Sculpture Prize. The installation of sculptures within the garden space will be a commissioned permanent artwork for Grange Garden and realised in August 2011.
Ripples looks closely at the proposed landscape and how it uses symmetry and rhythm as an aesthetic, taking notice of how the water and green spaces for the garden are contained within barriers from which they cannot escape. Tsuji takes this as a point of departure and introduces a surprising sense of flow, creating the ripples out of grey concrete blocks similar to those used for the existing footpath and barriers for the designed natural landscape.
These graceful forms, he says, ‘act as a counterpoint for the sharp corners and strict limitations of the surrounding spaces… allowing the earth and water to combine harmoniously in the urban landscape.’
The sculpture takes the assumed vertical and horizontal forms of raindrop patterns, and creates them out of concrete. These dynamic sculptures in various dimensions are placed in random patterns throughout the garden and are meant to collect water from the environment when it rains, adding to the impact of the work. The round pattern of the sculpture also plays on the strong symbolism of the circle in Zen culture that ‘inspires calm, meditation and fulfillment.’
Celebrated London-based artist and judge of the Grange Garden Sculpture Project, Yinka Shonibare MBE, commented on the winning proposal saying: “Kazuya Tsuji’s Ripples is a beautiful and playful recreation of water ripples in a garden pond. The water ripples sculptures exude meditative calm in the way that they are integrated into the garden design. Congratulations to him, this is a well-deserved win!”
About the Artist:
Kazuya Tsuji is a London based, Japanese artist who recently received his MA from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2010. He was granted The Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship in 2009, awarded to a student of the University of the Arts who has the potential to make an exceptional contribution to the fine arts.
Proposal:
Ripples uses the aesthetics of symmetry, austerity and rhythm in the landscape, this work aims to introduce a sense of flow into the constrained and defined green spaces, water and earth by making ripples out of grey concrete blocks. The visual effect would allow earth and water to combine harmoniously in the urban landscape. It uses the circle, a powerful symbol not only in Zen culture, but all around the globe, to inspire calm, meditation and fulfillment. The verticality of the drop of water offers a visual impact while sustaining a sort of dynamic in the composition of the shape. The sculpture that gracefully emerges from the ground acts as a counterpoint for the sharp corners and strict limitations of the surrounding space, it feeds the eye with a subtle image and the mind with relaxation.
Ripples looks closely at the proposed landscape and how it uses symmetry and rhythm as an aesthetic, taking notice of how the water and green spaces for the garden are contained within barriers from which they cannot escape. Tsuji takes this as a point of departure and introduces a surprising sense of flow, creating the ripples out of grey concrete blocks similar to those used for the existing footpath and barriers for the designed natural landscape.
These graceful forms, he says, ‘act as a counterpoint for the sharp corners and strict limitations of the surrounding spaces… allowing the earth and water to combine harmoniously in the urban landscape.’
The sculpture takes the assumed vertical and horizontal forms of raindrop patterns, and creates them out of concrete. These dynamic sculptures in various dimensions are placed in random patterns throughout the garden and are meant to collect water from the environment when it rains, adding to the impact of the work. The round pattern of the sculpture also plays on the strong symbolism of the circle in Zen culture that ‘inspires calm, meditation and fulfillment.’
Celebrated London-based artist and judge of the Grange Garden Sculpture Project, Yinka Shonibare MBE, commented on the winning proposal saying: “Kazuya Tsuji’s Ripples is a beautiful and playful recreation of water ripples in a garden pond. The water ripples sculptures exude meditative calm in the way that they are integrated into the garden design. Congratulations to him, this is a well-deserved win!”
About the Artist:
Kazuya Tsuji is a London based, Japanese artist who recently received his MA from the Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2010. He was granted The Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship in 2009, awarded to a student of the University of the Arts who has the potential to make an exceptional contribution to the fine arts.
Proposal:
Ripples uses the aesthetics of symmetry, austerity and rhythm in the landscape, this work aims to introduce a sense of flow into the constrained and defined green spaces, water and earth by making ripples out of grey concrete blocks. The visual effect would allow earth and water to combine harmoniously in the urban landscape. It uses the circle, a powerful symbol not only in Zen culture, but all around the globe, to inspire calm, meditation and fulfillment. The verticality of the drop of water offers a visual impact while sustaining a sort of dynamic in the composition of the shape. The sculpture that gracefully emerges from the ground acts as a counterpoint for the sharp corners and strict limitations of the surrounding space, it feeds the eye with a subtle image and the mind with relaxation.
- Artists' Opportunities
May 2011
