The official translation of this artwork displayed in the house is "Yama-no-kami and Illuminated Sun Flanked by Mirrors." The materials used are: neon, neon transformer, programing circuit, painted steel, steel frame, slag, and water.
The house was refurbished and designed by architect SEJIMA Kazuyo. One of her representative works is Kanazawa's "21st Museum of Contemporary Art," done with NISHIZAWA Ryue.
The Kanazawa museum is round and transparent, quite different from Japanese traditional wooden architecture. Here she worked on refurbishing an unoccupied wooden Japanese house, which had an impressive truss structure which she retained beautifully in the refurbishment project. The building serves as a gallery, housing the artwork of YANAGI.
"Yama-no-kami" means the mountain goddess. It later came to refer to a demanding wife by the way. "Flanked by Mirrors" means that the Tsuboniwa courtyard-like structures attached on the right and left of the house respectively flank the artwork. These structures and wooden walls - and pillars of course - support the load. See the pillars; they are slender and cannot support the house alone.
The house was refurbished and designed by architect SEJIMA Kazuyo. One of her representative works is Kanazawa's "21st Museum of Contemporary Art," done with NISHIZAWA Ryue.
The Kanazawa museum is round and transparent, quite different from Japanese traditional wooden architecture. Here she worked on refurbishing an unoccupied wooden Japanese house, which had an impressive truss structure which she retained beautifully in the refurbishment project. The building serves as a gallery, housing the artwork of YANAGI.
"Yama-no-kami" means the mountain goddess. It later came to refer to a demanding wife by the way. "Flanked by Mirrors" means that the Tsuboniwa courtyard-like structures attached on the right and left of the house respectively flank the artwork. These structures and wooden walls - and pillars of course - support the load. See the pillars; they are slender and cannot support the house alone.
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