ART INTERNATIONAL ZURICH 2007

Junko Matsumoto

JUNKO MATSUMOTO (*1968 Japan), japanische Multimediakünstlerin aus Osaka zeigt bei BB CONTEMPORARY (Schweiz) eine Werkreihe mit neuen Digitalarbeiten unter dem Titel [BEUYS RELOADED]. Auch Fotografien mit Joseph Beuys kommen bei dieser Präsentation ergänzend zum Einsatz: Beuys auf der documenta 6 mit der Installation "Honigpumpe" (Fotografien von Art Wolf, 1977).

Education

• Graduated from Kobe University Japan, Faculty of Education. In 1991, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Art Education. Completed a intensive course in English as a Foreign Language at University of Canberra, Australia, in 1993. Graduated Canberra School of Art, Associate Diploma in Painting Workshop, in 1997. She was assigned to the Kitchen designing division as Interior designer and Drafts -person, serving that position by 1993. Part-time teaching at High school and Junior high school in Nara, Japan in 1998. Now she is working in the section of DTP digital image publishing and multimedia information.

Exhibitions / Selected group shows:

• 1995 Mad with love, Wild with longing
• Spiral Arm Gallery, Canberra, Australia
• 1996 Last week, Androids did not come to Garage sale
  ANCA Gallery, Canberra Australia
• 1998-2000 Several group Exhibition and Internet art show at Art addiction
• International art gallery in Sweden and Italy
• 2000 Clg. Jacques Cartier, France
• 2001 "LE TRIBU DEL L'ARTE"
• GALLERIA COMUNALE DARTE MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA
  Curator: Achille Bonito Oliva, Ada Lombardi
• 2001 Galerie im Neuen Kranzler Eck Berlin

Media appearance

• 1997 Canberra Times
• "A window to the unconscious mind" by Joel Spencer
• 2000 WORLD OF ART
• Art Addiction directed by PETRU RUSSU

ECO
(=Circulation; Kokoro-no-Tabi)
Watching idleness of time

"When I make my work of art I try to think and express what is the fact of my being. To me the work of creation, seeking self, is much important to realize continue of my present, any completion of visual art works may not attract me. The creation is fun, I can feel I am not live alone, my subject is consist of interesting different cultures or fruits of any man's history, nostalgic ties of blood.
At the time, a mirage, nothing is the real, but visions in front collect my physical sense. There is a hard stiff shell above me, so I cannot confront with my origin or real task. I only live to the life.
Things never last forever. People sometime see future in the past, and also can see past in the future. Time is idle now, so we may think of what is the mind of our game.
(Which is the right direction?)"
Junko Matsumoto

*Kokoro-no-Tabi
Kokoro - mind, one's heart
Tabi - Journey

Copyright: Junko Matsumoto, Japan 2001