Events
MA Art Lectures: Simon Fujiwara
6:00pm to 7:00pm, 19 January 2012
Lecture Theatre, Woodlane Campus, University College Falmouth, TR11 4RH
This lecture is presented in collaboration with Tate St Ives to coincide with the first major exhibition in the UK of the work of critically acclaimed, young British/Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara (b.1982).
Fujiwara moved to Carbis Bay, near St Ives, when he was four years old, living there with his mother until he was sixteen. Much of Fujiwara's work is deeply autobiographical, mixing fact and fiction to create intricate installations and performances which draw on his family history. Through novels, theatre plays, lectures and installations, he scripts and performs his biography as fiction - an ongoing drama in which he plays the roles of artist, novelist, anthropologist, eroticist, architect and playwright, fusing the personal with universal socio-political and historical themes.
The show at Tate St Ives (18 January - 7 May 2012) presents six commissioned works and two of Fujiwara's major works completed over the last three years. Most of the new works are based on his childhood in Cornwall, his relationship with his absent Japanese father, and his formative encounters with art and artists in the town. In this way the show brings his projects together in the unique context to which they refer. In addition, Fujiwara integrates key works from the Tate collection into the exhibition - including paintings by Francis Bacon and Alfred Wallis and sculptures by Barbara Hepworth - in an innovative display that mixes them with his own works.
Image
Portrait of Simon Fujiwara in front of a reproduction of Patrick Heron's Horizontal Stripe Painting : November 1957 - January 1958 © Estate of Patrick Heron. All Rights Reserved, DACS, 2011
Photo: Benedicte Sehested © Simon Fujiwara
Admission free but this is a ticketed event
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