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Yoshiko Tanabe’s ‘Endless Net Way’ series reflects the universality of cellular structure and her concern with invisible webs such as computer networks and the sense of their continuous spread. Although she trained as a weaver she has developed a knotting technique to create her ‘Net Ways’ which are constructed from brass wire or coloured polypropylene wire. As with communication webs, there is no perceivable limit to Tanabe’s work which can be seen as having no beginning and no end and no defined centre. By this means she is asking us as viewers to continue the process of replication within our imagination.
Studied
- Kyoto City University of Arts 1988
Current Teaching Status
- Lecturer, Seian University of Art & Design
Awards
- 1998 Kyoto Arts Festival - Grand Prix
- 2000 Philip Morris Art Award
Recent Exhibitions Include
Solo
- 1996 Gallery Maronie, Kyoto
- 1997 Gallery In The Blue, Utsunomiya Gallery Gallery, Kyoto
Group
- 1995 Textile Miniature Works touring Belgium, Canada, Australia
- International Triennale of Tapestre, Central Museum of Textiles Poland
- Contemporary Direction in Japanese Fibre Art, Kyoto Municipal Gallery
- 1996 3D Miniature Works X, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
- Fibre as Art, Gallery Space 21, Tokyo
- 1997 The Filling of New Arts, Takashimaya Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto
- 3D Miniature Works XI, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
- Common Space 2, Pezinok Central Park, Slovakia
- 1998 3D Miniature Works Floating Object, Wacoal Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
- The Focus of 11 Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga
- 'Creating Kyoto' Kurondani Temple, Shinnyodo Temple, Munetada Shrine
- Imaginations '98' Gastuiskapel, Poperinge, Belgium
- 1999 International Textile Competition, Museum of Kyoto
- 2000 Kyoto Art & Craft, Museum of Kyoto
Category of Work
- Installation
Materials
- Felt, brass wire
