Hiroaki Morita: Un Week-End d’exposition ephémère. (Fondation d’art Fiminco, Paris)

2.25 – 26, 2017

Hours:
February 25, 2017 12:00-18:00
February 26, 2017 13:00-18:00

Curator:
Matthieu Lelièvre
(Directeur Artistique, Fondation Fiminco)

Fondation d’art Fiminco
45, rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville

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Artists:
Mikala Dwyer (la Chaufferie)
Lara Almarcegui
Kirstin Arndt
Baptiste Caccia
Lynne Cohen
Paula de Solminihac
Thomas Hauri
Romain Kronenberg
Gabriel Léger
Angelica Mesiti
Hiroaki Morita
Yoshua Okon
Mateo Revillo Imbernon
Maxime Rossi
Jani Ruscica
Benjamin Testa
France Valiccioni
Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca
Hannelore van Dijck

Fondation Fiminco, which is sponsored by Groupe Fiminco has a long history of raising awareness of classical music by supporting the Orchester de Paris, invites Hiroaki MORITA for a group exhibition “Un Week-End d’exposition ephémère”.
19 artists are invited in the industrial site which will host from the end of 2018 an international residence of artists and exhibition spaces.

From Something to Something else, 2015, Installation view: LISTE 20 – Art Fair Basel, Photo: Yuichiro Tamura

Hiroaki MORITA : From Something to Something else

1.16 – 2.13. 2016

Date: January.16[sat] – February.13[sat], 2016
Opening Reception: January.16[sat], 19 – 21 pm
Open from 12 – 19 pm (Closed on Sundays and national holidays)

Installation view: From Something to Something else

As the first project of the New Year, we are holding the third exhibition of Hiroaki Morita (b. 1973, lives and works in Tokyo) to introduce his new artwork.

This exhibition will focus on the installation artwork that was exhibited at LISTE – Art Fair Basel last year, “From Something to Something else,” which presents the circulation process of branded mineral waters from various areas around the world, by setting these waters to drip from the mouths of the bottles over time to transfer them into the other brands’ bottles. Besides, 3D artwork made of neon tubes and mirrors is exhibited, and bar service will be available so that you can actually drink mineral waters used for the artwork.

As is known to everyone, “water” is a fundamental substance for life, as indispensable as air. In the world of nature, water keeps changing its name depending on situation, becoming “mist, rain, cloud, lake, sea, river, and ice,” and continues to display its massive circulation on a global level.
A bottled mineral water, one of those states, is both a local and very global entity. For example, a well-known water brand, “Fiji Water,” is owned and sold by an American company in spite of its water source area. The moment mineral water becomes “water dripping” from the mouth of a bottle is a miraculous moment when it regains its primal anonymity, being free from any labeling.
This artwork tries to extend the brief moment as much as possible and provide viewers with various issues through water by overlapping the movement of “water circulation in various forms” with a process of “water circulation within capitalist society.

Artist’s book:
Hiroaki Morita 2001-2015

Publisher: AOYAMA|MEGURO
Size: A4    Page: 30
Text: Takashi ISHIZAKI
Translation: Akira RACHI
Design: Kaoru HONGO
EUR 10.00

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal  2015