2012.20.2.A-B Phase of Nothingness--Cloth and Stone | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Using natural materials such as stone, wood, and cotton in their unadulterated states in conjunction with wire, light bulbs, glass, and steel plates, Nobuo Sekine and other Mono-ha artists were interested in exploring the tension that results from the moment of encounter between objects and how this can profoundly alter one’s perception. Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone, 1970, demonstrates how Sekine carefully configured materials to activate the surrounding space, emphasizing a “phase” of experience during the time in which the object was to be temporarily displayed, subsequently discarded, and re-created for future exhibition. Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone interacts with its space through the gestural act of suspending a stone from cloth with a rope. After Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone was initially realized in 1970, Sekine destroyed the work and created it again in 2004 for an exhibition in Tokyo.

Excerpt from

Gabriel Ritter, Label text, 2014.
Jeffrey Grove, DMA unpublished material, 2012.

NOTES

Focus On: Nobuo Sekine exhibition

DMA unpublished material =

Gabriel Ritter, The Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, TMS label text, April 2014.
Jeffrey Grove, Ph.D., The Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Acquisition Justification Nobuo Sekine, 2012. File on TAZ.

Catalogue essays

Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art

Artist/designers

Sekine, Nobuo (Japanese, b. 1942)

Cultures

Geography

Process/materials

Historical periods

1945-Present, Post World War II Japan

Individuals

Subject terms

Mono-ha

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PROVENANCE

Until 2012: Nobuo Sekine (b.1942)

2012: Dallas Museum of Art, purchased from Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

Notes:

The main source for this provenance is the copy of Invoice #301250 in the Collections Records object file.

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General Description

Using natural materials such as stone, wood, and cotton in their unadulterated states in conjunction with wire, light bulbs, glass, and steel plates, Nobuo Sekine and other Mono-ha artists were interested in exploring the tension that results from the moment of encounter between objects and how this can profoundly alter one’s perception. Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone, 1970, demonstrates how Sekine carefully configured materials to activate the surrounding space, emphasizing a “phase” of experience during the time in which the object was to be temporarily displayed, subsequently discarded, and re-created for future exhibition. Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone interacts with its space through the gestural act of suspending a stone from cloth with a rope. After Phase of Nothingness-Cloth and Stone was initially realized in 1970, Sekine destroyed the work and created it again in 2004 for an exhibition in Tokyo.