Realistic Virtuality: The Subjects of Paintings

ArtistIto Ryusuke
Year2005
Mediumvideo installation
CountryJapan
Year of acquisition2006
Collection no.2032
ExplanationIto Ryusuke is a Sapporo based video artist. He started his career as an experimental filmmaker before presenting video installation works. "Realistic Virtuality" series is a skeleton installation which uses the devices of special effect film shooting and shows its end product in the same space. In this installation's case, a video of air fighters and a video of a video shop are projected simultaneously to suggest a possible creation of the history of war and to criticize the consistency of past and present Japanese culture which lets people indulge in fantasy.

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