*CANDY FACTORY PROJECTS @ AIAV 2002
*Candy Factory Projects @ AIAV 2002
Architectural Intervention
TAKUJI KOGO + MIKE BODE
Combination of two (1954) Takeo Yamaguchi
双つの組み合わせ (1954) 山口長男
The painting by the Japanese artist Takeo Yamaguchi (1902-1983) was made in 1954.
It shows the abstracted Japanese word for " Work".
It was presented as an example of modernist Japanese painting in the late 50's at the
Venice Biennial and the Sao Paolo Biennial.
However since the 1960's the painting was forgotten and turned up hanging in a staircase
in the old office building of the Kanebo Hofu Factory
(one of the largest and oldest chemical fiber mill plants in Japan, founded in 1935 at
Hofu, Yamaguchi.)
This painting was uncovered with this project and was displayed once more at the
Yamaguchi prefecture museum in 2003 together with a digital projection of the defunct
factory housing and the transcription of a song made for the factory celebrations by the workers.
The factory was shut down in 2004 due to the owner company's bankruptcy.
| ◀︎ 2002 Melborne, Beijing | ▶︎ 2003 Nonbroadcating Time |