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Tomoko Takahashi: Introspective Retrospective
The first comprehensive exhibition of her work worldwide

One of the most engaging installation artists of the past 20 years based her success on the recycling game with everyday debris. The exhibition at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill On Sea amounts to a study of her artistic career. With installations, sculptures, collages, drawings, films and interactive web pages, the exhibition exposes the artist’s understanding of the consumer world. It shows little-valued, outdated, random objects precisely arranged in compositions that give her work a special beauty. Tomoko Takahashi was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2000. "Introspective Retrospective" is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work worldwide.

Until August 2010, the work "Critical Mass" by Antony Gormley is to be seen on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion. The work was created in 1995 for a railway depot in Vienna. The piece travelled through Europe as a solo show. In Britain, the piece is now exhibited for the first time in its entirety since the production at the Tate St. Ives in Cornwall in 2001. "Critical Mass" consists of 12 squatting, sitting, cowering, kneeling and standing body shapes. As Gormley described the exposition in this location: "This is the return of the lost subject to the site of Modernism. ... It will be like a sky burial."


July 3rd until September 13th, 2010
Bexhill on Sea, East Sussex TN40 2BE, UK
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