Motohiko Odani
| Motohiko Odani | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 小谷元彦 |
| Born | Kyoto |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Japanese |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Tokyo University of the Arts |
| 💼 Occupation | |
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Motohiko Odani (小谷元彦, born 1972 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese artist and sculptor. Galleries that display collections of his include the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, the Asia Society Museum, and M+.
Subject matter
Odani's main influence is the phantom limb phenomenon. He made his artistic debut in 1997 with a solo exhibition of the same name. Odani has since explored this theme through several mediums and in relation to events such as the Fukushima nuclear accident.
At the very core of my artistic activities is exploration of such ambivalent, intermediate, gray zones, like things that do not exist yet have an existence, wakefulness and hypnosis, magic and salvation, rationality and irrationality, and the human and non-human. I probe the transformation of our bodies, perception, and awareness into something different, and the material and states involved in the process of this change.
— Motohiko Odani
Odani's secondary influences include Japanese Buddhist sculpture.
Selected works
- Phantom Limb (1997)
- New Born "Halo" (2011)
- A Cosmic Traveler of Blindness (2016)
References
- http://anomalytokyo.com/en/artist/motohiko-odani/
- https://www.fotografiska.com/sto/en/utstallningar/motohiko-odani/
- https://www.artatsite.com/Tokyo/details/Odani-Motohiko-New-Born-Halo-IIno-statue-sculpture-Tokyo-Japan-Art-at-Site.html
Further reading
- Tsubaki, R. (2016) Odani Motohiko: The transforming and evolving body - aesthetics of imbalance, Informit. Available at: https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.031357734853147 (Accessed: 11 December 2023).
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