Michiko itatani biography of abraham lincoln

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Even a maelstrom has some kind of structure.

Michiko Itatani, born and raised in Japan and an artist and professor in the US since the s, always mines that territory between the physical and the metaphysical, between what we think we perceive around us and what we suspect might underpin it, between the specific and the astral, as for Itatani, they always partake of each other.

She's rather a force of nature herself; this exhibition contained 69 works from the last seven years, many of them large, and culled from her ongoing series such as HyperBaroque, Pattern Recognition, Moon Jar, CTRL-Home/Echo, Cosmic Theater, Shoin (a Japanese interior architectural form), and others.

These, and this exhibition's title, convey a bit of the frenzy Itatani conceives to be seething around us, this strange and changeling yin-yang between chaos and order, between the specifics of the appearance of the world a