Tatzu Nishi
| Tatzu Nishi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nishino Tatsu 1960 Nagoya, Japan |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Occupation | artist |
Tatzu Nishi (西野達 Nishino Tatsu, born 1960)[1] is an internationally exhibited installation artist. He is known for transforming historical monuments by surrounding the statue or building with domestic spaces including functioning hotels.
Early life
Nishi was born in 1960 in Nagoya, Japan. He studied at Musashino Art University, Tokyo from 1981 until 1984. Later he moved to Germany and enrolled at Kunstakadamie, Münster.
Career
Nishi has built his fabricated hotels and apartments around historical monuments in Europe, Australia, Singapore and most recently in Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City: a penthouse apartment surrounding Gaetano Russo's statue of Christopher Columbus. Discovering Columbus was his first project to have been executed in the United States.[2] For Discovering Columbus, Nishi designed the living room with numerous pop references to American cultural symbols in the abound possibly as a critique.[3]
For the 2011 Singapore Biennale the artist surrounded the city state's 70-ton cement Merlion statue with a luxury hotel room.[4]
Nishi often adopts different names while working on particular projects, for example Tatzu Oozu, Tazro Niscino, and Tatsurou Bashi in addition to Tatzu Nishi.[5]
References
- ↑ "Tatzu Nishi biography". Art Inasia.com. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
- ↑ "NYC Landmark Becomes Living Room In the Sky". ABC News.com. 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
- ↑ Sherwood Pundyk, Anne (November 2012). "Tatzu Nishi: Discovering Columbus". The Brooklyn Rail.
- ↑ "tatzu nishi: the merlion hotel at singapore biennale 2011". Design Boom.com. Retrieved 2012-09-28.
- ↑ Anthony Bond (2011), "Swapping public and private: Tatzu Nishi", in Ben Parry; Sally Medlyn; Myriam Tahir, Cultural Hijack: Rethinking Intervention, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, pp. 172–89, ISBN 978-1-84631-751-4