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AIDA Makoto + 21st Century Cardboard Guild, <MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II>, Corrugated cardboard, Installation, 2008-
[Japan] AIDA Makoto + 21st Century Cardboard Guild MONUMENT FOR NOTHING II
Aida Makoto worked to express Monument which contains complicated emotions that symbolize his own power through the use of corrugated cardboard, one of the cheapest materials available. We put meaning in the method of production while he worked together with those without any knowledge of art by sharing his methods instead of disintegrating the ranking between teachers and students. In doing this, he criticized the education system of art which can be controlled by an authority. This work which was created intermittently by changing places was exhibited for the first time outside Japan. Mixed with Monument like waste kept after their creation, these artworks will be kept for a long time in a warehouse where Aida’s works were stored amidst high humidity, fungi, cockroaches, and rats, all of which are the natural enemies of artworks. |
