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Nishi Tatzu has a reputation for creating bold designs and often humorous in public spaces. In the past, he has built temporary classrooms and even homes around existing outdoor objects such as poles or monuments. Passersby are invited inside the rooms, and given the experience of seeing mind-spinning, for example, a pole, a sculpture or even the roof of a car, in a totally artificial, indoor. He also converted a cargo container on a coffee run, hanging in the air from a crane to give patrons a rather precarious air of your city.
After the acclaim of their substantial contributions to the second Liverpool Biennial in 2002 and "Ecstasy" at MOCA, Los Angeles, in 2005, this year is already proving to be extremely busy for Nishi. Besides MAM Project 006, which has a number of ongoing projects, including "07 MDE - Medellin Encuentro International 2007", Colombia, and "Estuaire 2007, " an international sculpture festival in the French city of Nantes, at the mouth of the river Loire. In Japan, its recent exhibitions include "Villa Kaihoutei" Yokohama Triennale in 2005 and "Cheri is in heaven" (2006), in which he ended the "Pyrotechnician" (a statue of a horseman on the roof of the Maison Hermès in Ginza) in quarter. The work will be presented in four exhibition halls, including the Singapore Art Museum and National Museum of Singapore.Nine of the 63 participating artists are from Singapore, the largest proportion of local artists to date. They include Michael Lee, Charles Lim, John Low and Genevieve Chua. One of the artists from Singapore, Charles Lim, will be from the garbage collected from Singapore channels to create a work of art.
The exhibition will open to the public from March 13 to May 15 next year. This is the third edition of the biggest contemporary art exhibition in Southeast Asia. initiated by the National Arts Council, next year's event is organized by the Singapore Art Museum, which hopes to attract 650,000 visitors. find out more at http://www.singaporebiennale.org/
