ART iT from Japan

ART iT launched in 2003 as a bilingual Japanese-English quarterly print publication, the first of its kind in Japan. From its inception, the magazine's mission was to link contemporary art events happening in Japan to those taking place elsewhere in the region and around the world.

In 2009, ART iT began the next phase of its development by converting to an exclusively online publication and social networking site combining both editorial and user-generated content created by leading Japanese and international artists and art professionals as well as casual art enthusiasts.

ART iT intends to rethink the nature of online media. Rather than focusing on constantly updated information, the publication features in-depth, articulated ideas about contemporary art and culture.

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Jeppe Hein _____ Conscious of the difficulties surrounding minimalist and conceptual art, Danish born (and Berlin based) artist, Jeppe Hein, incorporates a keen sense of humor and imaginative eye to masterfully transcend the arena’s pitfalls.  Keeping a mininal aesthetic allows the true concepts of Hein’s work to emerge.  These themes deal with natural elements/forces (ie gravity, fire, light, water etc…), and how the work interacts with the space it inhabits and in turn the observer. Jeppe often places familiar objects into unfamiliar and often impossible situations in order to play with the viewer’s sense of reality.  This makes his material choices of water, fire, light and gravity even more significant, since they are the constants that inform our experience on Earth.  So to see fire dancing above water or a cube suspended in air are the most unlikely of circumstances imaginable. He also invites the viewer’s participation in these events.  His bench series is a clear example of this (what’s a bench without someone to sit on it), as well the motion sensors attached to some of his gallery pieces. It’s this inventiveness and a gorgeous, streamlined presentation that makes Jeppe Hein a master of the medium.  Check out more of his work after the jump and at the 303 Gallery andJohann Koenig. _______ http://byosmosis.tv/blog/artist-jeppe-hein/

Jeppe Hein

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Conscious of the difficulties surrounding minimalist and conceptual art, Danish born (and Berlin based) artist, Jeppe Hein, incorporates a keen sense of humor and imaginative eye to masterfully transcend the arena’s pitfalls.  Keeping a mininal aesthetic allows the true concepts of Hein’s work to emerge.  These themes deal with natural elements/forces (ie gravity, fire, light, water etc…), and how the work interacts with the space it inhabits and in turn the observer.

Jeppe often places familiar objects into unfamiliar and often impossible situations in order to play with the viewer’s sense of reality.  This makes his material choices of water, fire, light and gravity even more significant, since they are the constants that inform our experience on Earth.  So to see fire dancing above water or a cube suspended in air are the most unlikely of circumstances imaginable. He also invites the viewer’s participation in these events.  His bench series is a clear example of this (what’s a bench without someone to sit on it), as well the motion sensors attached to some of his gallery pieces.

It’s this inventiveness and a gorgeous, streamlined presentation that makes Jeppe Hein a master of the medium.  Check out more of his work after the jump and at the 303 Gallery andJohann Koenig.

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http://byosmosis.tv/blog/artist-jeppe-hein/

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