Nobuko Tsuchiya
Table Rabbit, 2003
Mixed media
160 x 270 x 160 cm
It’s this design element of Nobuko Tsuchiya’s work which is most alluring. Each sculpture revels in its impoverished minimalism, almost zen-like its poetic accuracy, while at the same time alluding to an ancient and un-evolved Japanese Pop.
Nobuko Tsuchiya
Parking Fish Project, 2003
Mixed media
77 x 36 x 43 cm
Haywire tubes feeding to and from dishes of mysterious liquid, ‘electronic’ connections held together with wooden clothes pegs, and vials suspended with bits of string: there’s an overwhelming possibility that her experiments might explode at any moment.
Nobuko Tsuchiya
Your Chair, 2003
Mixed media
50 x 176 x 50 cm
“Not everything is as it appears in my work, not everything is done on purpose. My decisions are made by using what you could call a different form of thinking, and are made to operate between harmony and discord, control and the lack of it. I always try to develop the conversation between the things in my work and myself. Maybe this sounds idiotic, but it is my honest feeling."