Chu Enoki: Enoki Chu, White Rainbow
Japanese contemporary art gallery White Rainbow presents conceptual artist Chu Enoki and his industrial components as tools of war and creativity
Chu Enoki, Going to Hungary with HANGARI, 1977-79/2015
“Art has been my weapon in life”, says artist Chu Enoki, who celebrates his first solo exhibition in the UK at White Rainbow gallery, London this spring.
Chu Enoki biography
The aftermath of military violence has been an on going motif in Chu Enoki’s life. Born in 1944 in a town next to an American army base, he grew up in the years of hardship immediately following Japan’s defeat in World World Two.
White Rainbow exhibition
His performances, sculptures, installations and drawings are preoccupied with the instruments of violence – frequently featuring heavy, industrial components made of metal and resin – but at the same time, with humanity’s potential to transcend conflict and do good. A cannon, Enoki shows, is just as much a beautiful work of engineering as an agent of war.
In Chu Enoki: Enoki Chu, we encounter some of the more intimate pieces that have been the backdrop to Enoki’s development as a maverick figure in postwar Japanese conceptual art.
Chu Enoki biography
The aftermath of military violence has been an on going motif in Chu Enoki’s life. Born in 1944 in a town next to an American army base, he grew up in the years of hardship immediately following Japan’s defeat in World World Two.
White Rainbow exhibition
His performances, sculptures, installations and drawings are preoccupied with the instruments of violence – frequently featuring heavy, industrial components made of metal and resin – but at the same time, with humanity’s potential to transcend conflict and do good. A cannon, Enoki shows, is just as much a beautiful work of engineering as an agent of war.
In Chu Enoki: Enoki Chu, we encounter some of the more intimate pieces that have been the backdrop to Enoki’s development as a maverick figure in postwar Japanese conceptual art.
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| What | Chu Enoki: Enoki Chu, White Rainbow |
| Where | White Rainbow, 47 Mortimer Street , London , W1W 8HJ | MAP |
| Nearest tube | Oxford Circus (underground) |
| When |
11 Feb 15 – 11 Apr 15, Tuesday–Friday 12:00–18:00 Saturday 12:00–17:00 |
| Price | £Free |
| Website | Click here for more details |