Hokuto, Yamanashi Pref. ¨C Floors seem to have played an important role in artist Takuro Tamayama¡¯s life. One of his first jobs as a teenager involved mopping shop floors, and two of his current exhibitions include the word ¡°floor¡± in their titles.
The first of these is a gargantuan show currently on display at the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Aichi Prefecture. On view through May 18, it¡¯s simply titled ¡°Takuro Tamayama: Floor,¡± and marks the artist¡¯s largest exhibition to date. At 34, he¡¯s also the youngest person to ever hold a solo show at the museum.
The mops from Tamayama¡¯s first job have apparently left a mark, too, recurring as a motif throughout his work. One appears in ¡°Pipeline (Mop),¡± a piece now on display at Gasbon Metabolism, an art complex in Hokuto, Yamanashi Prefecture: a steel mop with a ray of light beaming out from its handle. It¡¯s part of the artist¡¯s solo exhibition, ¡°Past Works Floors,¡± running through May 5, which also includes pieces like ¡°Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)¡± ¡ª a sculpture of suspended circular blue and green mobiles that stretches 20 meters down one of the complex¡¯s expansive halls.
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