Taro Izumi: ex
Taro Izumi manipulates opposites using absurdity, chance, accidents and humour as constitutive elements of his work
The exhibition offers an immersion in the quirky, mischief-filled world of Japanese artist Taro Izumi. The journey he has imagined for Museum Tinguely is scattered with mirages and optical illusions: a theatre whose public has vanished, sculptures that imitate acrobatic positions, robotic vacuum cleaners suspended in space.
Izumi interconnects materials such as wood, textiles, plants, fur, furniture and all kinds of recycled items to structures that look like they have been «cobbled together», but were nevertheless precisely assembled, the result of not only high technology and long-term reflection, but also spontaneous energy and a certain immediacy.
OPENING TIMES:
Tue, Wed 11am – 6pm
Thu 11am – 9pm
Fri – Sun 11am – 6pm
ART BASEL:
Jun 16 – Jun 22 9am – 7pm
Jun 19 9am – 9pm
CLOSING DAYS:
Mon
ADMISSION:
Ticket
M: tinguelybasel.infos@roche.com
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ADDRESS
Museum Tinguely, Paul Sacher-Anlage 1, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
ESTABLISHED
1996
