photo: SAIKI Taku
Microcosm (one)
| Artist | Anne WILSON |
|---|---|
| Year | 2005 |
| Material/ Technique | lace, thread, pin, wood |
| Size/ Duration | H10 × W32 × D100cm |
| Copyright Notice | © 2005 Anne Wilson |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2006（作品購入年月日：2006/03/31） |
| Description | Born in Detroit, USA in 1949. Lives and works in Chicago. Using materials such as lace, linen, human hair, and thread, Anne Wilson skillfully employs the techniques of sewing, weaving, and tying in creating works that investigate human perceptions and meaning as a culturally constructed linguistic norm. Her works range from panels, stitched into fabric using thread or hair, to large-scale sculptural pieces 10 meters wide and video and photographic creations. Working with her hands, Wilson creates a dense, eloquent world by interweaving the emotions awakened by her materials – which richly evoke privacy and the body – with our memory of the functions they originally served and the complex, delicate textures produced by her use of pins and bits of thread. "A Chronicle of Days" consists of 100 pieces created one a day from 1997 to the following year, like entries made in a diary. In each, the remains of human activity – hair and thread of various colors stitched in linen of patterned weave – evoke stains, scars, and bacterial colonies. The pieces could be called “physical drawings” the artist has stitched spontaneously, employing whatever hair or cloth she has happened to choose that day. The video sound installation "Errant Behaviors" emerges from the sculptural work, "Topologies", Wilson showed in 2002. In "Errant Behaviors" – by photographing successive frames while moving her materials each time, and combining the frames to produce motion – she awakens to life the world she created in "Topologies" using thread, pins, and pieces of lace, together with sound composed especially for the imagery. The essence of Wilson’s art can also be found in "Microcosm (one)", a work she has produced for a window space in a gallery of this museum. The world of her creation evokes the spider-web city of writer Italo CALVINO, where threads run among the houses, but also suggest nerve networks or the Internet. |
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This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
The data of works and materials are listed in order of title, production year, material/technique/form, dimensions, donor’s name, copyright holder and credit for photograph.
Dimensions are given by height (H) x width (W) in centimeters for plane work, and height (H) x width (W) x depth (D) in cm for 3-D work. Diameter (Ø) is used for circular work.
For the name of country or city, the name currently used in English is listed in principle.