Tetsuya Yamada: Listening

Author: Yamada, Tetsuya
The extraordinary interdisciplinary practice of Tetsuya Yamada blurs the lines between art, design and craft. Foregrounding found materials, Yamada characterises his process as “listening” to the quality of his materials. This title regards his myriad artistic and design influences not as tensions but as complementary facets of a grounded, holistic practice, and features over 60 works, including sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and an environmental installation.Yamada’s influences include the ancient Japanese forms of Noh theater and the traditional tea ceremony, the modernism of Constantin Brâncusi and Isamu Noguchi, and the democracy of the found object espoused by Marcel Duchamp.
ISBN 9781941753668. Inventory Press/Walker Art Center. hb. 168 pages. 130 colour, 0 b/w ills. 27.9 x 21.6 cm.