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Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010-12

Accession No.
2013.001a-e
Date Created
2010-12
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Asian Art
Dimensions A
150 x 280 x 194cm
Media Category
Sculpture
Secondary Media Category
wood
Medium
Japanese Cypress
Credit Line
The Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Collection of Contemporary Asian Art.
Purchased 2013 with funds from Michael Sidney Myer through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation

Takahiro Iwasaki’s Reflection model (perfect bliss) 2010 is an intricate miniature version of Phoenix Pavilion, part of Kyoto’s Byodo-in temple complex. Featured on both the 10-yen coin and the 10,000-yen note, the building is an iconic, everyday image in Japan. Using Japanese cypress, Iwasaki reproduces the building’s reflection in its traditional mirror pond as a physical object, suspending it from the ceiling to appear as a three-dimensional mirrored image floating in space. This dreamlike doubling invites consideration of the work beyond the artist’s superb technical skill.
 

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APT7 Opening Weekend visitors view Takahiro Iwasaki's Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss) 2010–12

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Dec 2012 - Apr 2013

Works by Yasumasa Morimura, Masami Teraoka and Takashi Murakami installed for ‘We Can Make Another Future’ at GOMA, December 2014 / © The artists / Photograph: M Sherwood, QAGOMA

‘We Can Make Another Future’

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015

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