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press release - Shinji Turner-Yamamoto wins 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award

 

video - commentary by juror Nuit Banai, art historian and critic, Department of Visual and Critical Studies at Tufts University / School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 

video - Reed Kroloff speaks about SiTE:LAB, awarded the Outstanding Venue Award

catalog - SiTE:Lab + U of M School of Art & Design

 

related video - DISAPPEARANCES, produced by Contemporary Arts Center

 

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DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

a large-scale site-specific installation created with fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater

 

site:
SiTE:Lab + University of Michigan School of Art & Design, 2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

curator: Paul Amenta
exhibition coordinator: Tom Clinton
coordinator: Terry Frixen

special thanks:
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
Michigan Natural Storage / Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine

 

shinji turner-yamamoto

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DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

 

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA


photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA


photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA


photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA


photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

shinji turner-yamamoto

 

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

 

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

 

shinji turner-yamamoto

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt  limestone, and rainwater

8000 square feet

2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

 

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

work-in-progress

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel height

 

DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey

2011

work-in-progress

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

> 1920 pixel width

 

Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Gypsum mine, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

 

photo credit: James Morse

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shinji turner-yamamoto - global tree project: hanging garden - holy cross Church / monastery - chapel, Cincinnati, Ohio - photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

Global Tree Project: HANGING GARDEN

2010

dead and live white birches

12 m (40 feet) tall

19th century Holy Cross Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (National Register of Historic Places)

 

photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto

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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

"SHINJI TURNER-YAMAMOTO | GLOBAL TREE PROJECT," Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy, 2012.

Rooney, E. Ashley. 100 Midwestern Artists, Schiffer Publishing, PA, USA 2012.

"My Green City: Back to Nature with Attitude and Style," Gestalten, Berlin, Germany 2011. - preview

Suri, Rajath. "The True Silent and Transcend." DIAOSU National Sculpture Magazine of China, may 2011.

Graham, Patricia J. "Compassion, Craft and Connectedness," Orientations Magazine, may 2011.

Turner-Yamamoto, Shinji. CSPA - The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, issue five 2011.

Lenz Muente, Tamera. "The Impermanence of Nature," The Artist’s Magazine, may 2011.

Vaccariello, Linda. "Roots and Wings," Cincinnati Magazine, october 2010.

"Turner-Yamamoto’s Hanging Garden," ExpressCincinnati, october 2010.

Lenz Muente, Tamera. "Trees as Testament," CityBeat, october 2010.

Rosen, Steven. "HANGING GARDEN AT HOLY CROSS CHURCH," CityBeat, september 2010.

"MONGOLIA 360°, International Land Art Biennial," MNG360°, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2010.

Tanguy, Sarah. / Bauer Joanne. "SLEEPING TREE," Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA, USA 2009.

O'Sullivan, Michael. "A Haiku to Nature in Reston," The Washington Post, 17.10.2008.

Lindholm, Fanny. "Papperskonst I naturens färger," Borgåbladet, 08.08.2008.

Ikävalko, Jari. "Turner-Yamamoton olevaisuuden maisemat," Uusimaa, 07.08.2008.

Ramanathan, Lavanya. "Teahouse of Artful Serenity," The Washington Post, 17.04.2008.

Dawson, Jessica. "Earthy Abstractions," The Washington Post, 14.03.2008.

Jaffe Dan, Sharon. "Ode to Nature," Home and Design, spring 2008.

Parsons, Laura. "Looks into the Light," Virginia Living, spring 2008.

Farnstrom, Beth. "Paint It ... Green,"Washington Life Magazine, april 2008.

Lyons, Emily. "The Living Colors - Art From Nature's Palette," Washington Spaces, spring 2008.

O'Sullivan, Michael. "Reaching for the Unreachable," The Washington Post, 25.05.2007.

Pajano, Rosalba. "Light Art," Skira Editore, Milan, Italy 2005.

Backsbacka, Mary-Ann. "Blickar Bortom Nuet," Vastra Nyland, 26.05.2004.

Turner-Yamamoto, Shinji. "Almanacco - di scritture antagoniste," Odradec, Roma, Italy 2003.

Daolio, Roberto. "Dust and Reflections," Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2002.

"FIGURE del Novecento," Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, Italy 2001

"Die Blaue Begeisterung - 34 junge italienische künstler", Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany 2000.

Conti, Viana. "Arti Visive III - l'occhio in ascolto," Neos Edizioni, Genoa, Italy 2000.

Deho, Valerio. "Altri Luoghi," Ex Dormitorio delle Feorrovie dello stato, Bologna, Italy 2000.

Sproccati, Sandro. "Prefazione a Yamamoto," Bologna, Italy 2000.

Ikegami, Hidehiro. "L'opera senza fine: Shinji Yamamoto in Irlanda," Arteletta N.7, 2000.

Bompani, Michela. "Yamamoto a Villa Croce, i 'paesaggi' d'artista," la Repubblica, 14.06.1999.

Evangelisti, Silvia. "AQUA," Centro Ligure di Studi Orientali, Genoa, Italy 1999.

Turner-Yamamoto, Shinji. "ZIGZAG c/o Galleria Graffio," Zone, Bologna, Italy 1997.