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Miya Ando in Frontiers Reimagined: Collateral Exhibition, 56th Venice Biennale, Museo Di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy

Past exhibition
9 May - 22 November 2015
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Miya Ando, Emptiness the Sky (Shou-Sugi-Ban), 2015. Shou-sugi-ban facade, wood sub-structure, dyed aluminum panels, 7-foot/2.1-meter cube. Courtesy of Tagore Foundation International.
Miya Ando, Emptiness the Sky (Shou-Sugi-Ban), 2015. Shou-sugi-ban facade, wood sub-structure, dyed aluminum panels, 7-foot/2.1-meter cube. Courtesy of Tagore Foundation International.
The phenomenon of globalization, where cultures are colliding and melding as never before, offers rich and complex sources of inspiration for artists. Frontiers Reimagined examines the results of these cultural entanglements through the work of forty-four painters, sculptors, photographers and installation artists who are exploring the notion of cultural boundaries. These emerging and established artists—who come from a vast geographical landscape stretching from the West to Asia to Africa—share a truly global perspective, both in their physical existence, living and working between cultures, and their artistic endeavors. Each demonstrates the intellectual and aesthetic richness that emerges when artists engage in intercultural dialogue.

Frontiers Reimagined, a Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, has been granted the patronage of the esteemed Italian Ministry of Culture. It has been organized by Sundaram Tagore and Tagore Foundation International and it is being mounted in partnership with the Venetian state museum authority, il Polo museale del Veneto.




MIYA ANDO

The metal canvases and installations of Miya Ando articulate themes of contradiction and juxtaposition. The foundation of her practice is the transformation of surfaces. A descendant of Bizen swordsmiths, she was raised among Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan, and later, in California. Applying traditional techniques of her ancestry, she transforms sheets of aluminum and industrial steel, using heat and chemicals, into ephemeral abstractions suffused with subtle gradations of color.

Recently, Ando has begun working with shou-sugi-ban, a charred wood often used as an exterior building material in Okayama. The immersive installation she created for this exhibition is clad in this material. The angular structure offers viewers a space for contemplation and the experience of stepping inside one of her mesmerizing metal paintings.

 

Miya Ando received a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and attended Yale University to study Buddhist iconography and imagery. She apprenticed with master metalsmith Hattori Studio in Japan, followed by a residency at Northern California’s Public Art Academy in 2009. Ando is the recipient of many awards, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2012.

 

Her work has been exhibited all over the world, including a show curated by Nat Trotman of the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum. Miya Ando has produced numerous public commissions, most notably a thirty-foot-tall commemorative sculpture in London built from World Trade Center steel to mark the ten-year anniversary of 9/11.



    



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  • Miya Ando, Emptiness the Sky (Shou-Sugi-Ban), 2015. Shou-sugi-ban facade, wood sub-structure, dyed aluminum panels, 7-foot/2.1-meter cube. Courtesy of Tagore Foundation International.
    Miya Ando, Emptiness the Sky (Shou-Sugi-Ban), 2015. Shou-sugi-ban facade, wood sub-structure, dyed aluminum panels, 7-foot/2.1-meter cube. Courtesy of Tagore Foundation International.
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