From March 30 to June 10, 2018, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain is hosting Junya Ishigami's exhibition, Freeing Architecture.

The exhibition on Junya Ishigami, which we had already announced, has been photographed in its presentation, by Laurian Ghinitoiu.
 
Junya Ishigami - winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale in 2010 - presents his work as a conceptual body with his characteristic style: calm, free fluidity, with bright tones and playful curves. The projects in the exhibition range from large scale models to films and drawings, and when placed in the context of the exhibition, they bring to life Jean Nouvel's iconic building as well.

Laurian Ghinitoiu gives us a glimpse inside the exhibition ahead of the opening day today. His photos reveal the lightness and ethereal quality of Ishigami's hand.

The exhibition includes children’s gardens, a chapel, a museum, a landscaped park, a house-restaurant, a garden house, a monument, and an urban sculpture. The variety of constructions presented in the exhibition Freeing Architecture serves to reveal the richness and complexity of a flexible body of work, which is constantly reinvented.

In the open spaces of the Fondation Cartier, sans partitions, the interplay of small and large-scale models, immense collages and drawings, create an atmosphere that is at once solemn, dreamlike, playful, and calm.
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Junya Ishigami, born in Tokyo, Japan (1974). Education:
1994 - 1998 Musashi Institute of Technology. 
1998 - 2000 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Professional experience:
 2000 - 2004 Kazuyo Sejima + Associates. 
In 2004 he set up his own firm, "Junya Ishigami + Associates". Junya Ishigami questions common understanding of architecture. This allows him to create things beyond trends, established principles and definitions, develop new structures, new spaces and organize the environment differently. He hopes his projects will be able to change the lifestyle of modern architecture radically and fill it with new values.

Main projects:
 Table. Tokyo, Japan, 2005
T. project. (First prize in residential architecture project sponsored by the Tokyo Electric Power Company). Tokyo, Japan, 2005 
Balloon. Tokyo, Japan, 2007
Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT kobo. Kanagawa, Japan, 2008
Yohji Yamamoto New York Gansevoort street store, NY, USA, 2008.

Main awards:
 “low chair and round table” were acquired by the Pompidou Centre. Milan, Italy, 2004, 
SD Prize for “small garden of row house”. Japan, 2005, 
Kirin Prize for “Table” . Tokyo , Japan, 2005, 
First prize in residential architecture project for “t project”. Tokyo, Japan, 2005, 
“Table” shown at the Basel Art Fair by Gallery Koyanagi in 2006 and acquired by the Israel Museum. Basel , Swiss, 2006.

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Published on: April 1, 2018
Cite: "Opening Freeing Architecture on Junya Ishigami in Foundation Cartier" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/opening-freeing-architecture-junya-ishigami-foundation-cartier> ISSN 1139-6415
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