FACE TO FACE- Art exhibition that included work by Diane Lublinski. Diane Lublinski Art Works. Diane Lublinski exhibiting at Lucky Street Gallery. Piedmont Craftsmen. Diane Lublinski's website- Clayforms. Yonetani - The Last supper installation. Ken & Julia Yonetani. Synapse: Ken and Julia Yonetani's Salt Sculptures. Ken and Julia Yonetani - Indigenous: Beauty & Terror - Artlink Magazine. The flooding of Queensland in early 2011 affected more than two-thirds of the state, highlighting the unpredictability of Australian food production at a time of natural disaster.
According to The National Farmers' Federation, the floods will cost the agricultural industry around $700 million. The flooding, fires and cyclone of the new year makes two exhibitions Melting Moments by Janet Tavener and Still Life: The Food Bowl by Ken + Julia Yonetani especially poignant. The representation of food has long been a popular subject in art. Within the Western tradition, the still life has been valued for its formal qualities and the way it can work as a metaphor for other meanings. These contemporary still lifes cast and moulded from water and salt underline the issues of modern food production and consumption.
View Larger ImageJanet Tavener Hamburger 2009, archival digital print on galerie gold fibre, 85 x 85cm. Megan Fizell. Ken + Julia Yonetani “Crystal Palace – Iran” Ken + Julia Yonetani (Japanese and Australian) Crystal Palace – Iran, 2013 Antique chandelier frames, uranium glass beads, wire, UV light bulbs and electric component 60 x 64cm Ken Yonetani was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan.
Julia Yonetani is an artist, writer, and researcher. Ken and Julia Yonetani’s work explores the interaction between humans, nature, science and the spiritual realm in the contemporary age, unearthing and visualizing hidden connections between people and their environment. Conceived in response to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011, ‘Crystal Palace’ is comprised of 31 chandeliers. The 31 pieces signal the 31 nuclear nations of the world and the size of each chandelier corresponds to the number of operating nuclear plants in that nation.
The Singapore Biennale 2013 marked the completion of this series and its world premiere showing in Southeast Asia, a region without nuclear power plants. Solo Exhibitions include: Group Exhibitions include: Yonetani Salt sculptures lay consequences of salinity on the table. Hard facts ...
Ken and Julia Yonetani's pieces, cast from salt from the Murray Darling region, speak of the crisis facing Australia's food bowl. Photo: Edwina Pickles ACCORDING to the Bible, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt when she turned to look at the destruction of Sodom. Fortunately, Ken Yonetani's wife and collaborator, Julia, had a happier fate. She merely had to help the Japanese-born installation artist create pillars of salt for their latest exhibition, which also examines the potential collapse of a hedonistic civilisation. The couple - who represented Australia at the 2009 Venice Biennale - have spent months making sculptures out of groundwater salt at their studio in the Blue Mountains.
The four works are replete with references to European art history. Advertisement ''We used salt as a metaphor for life and death,'' Ken says. ''We saw firsthand the impact of salinity on the environment,'' Julia says. Ken + julia yonetani. Ken Yonetani, Julia Yonetani BIOGRAPHY. Ken Yonetani was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan.
He lives and works in Katoomba NSW, Australia. He received a Bachelor of Economics in Japan and worked in the Foreign Exchange Market in Tokyo for three years. Following this, he was an assistant for pottery master, Toshio Kinjo, oldest son of Jiro Kinjo a National Living Treasure of Japan. He completed his M.A. at The Australian National University School of Art in 2005. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Julia Yonetani is an artist, writer, and researcher. February 2014 Ken + Julia Yonetani - Eyeline (Volume 80) October 2012 Eyeline Magazine Daily Telegraph ABC Entertainment ABC Radio The Australian Time Out Sydney Sydney Morning Herald Phaidon ABC Sydney Events Japan Focus Daily Serving Art Link Artabase Urban Glass June 2011 Sydney Morning Herald The Daily Telegraph Metro Art, Sydney Morning Herald Artlink ABC Radio National Aesthetica Blog Australian Art Review March 2011 GV Art.