Watanabe Tadashi

Watanabe Tadashi is an artist based in Japan. He often does performance, making conceptual paintings, so that viewers can observe the passage of action within his installations. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been presented in the Sharjah International Biennial 6, ‘United Arab Emirates and TRIBES Gallery and GALAPAGOS in New York.

Short Description

Therefore space influences who we think we are, our very spirit.
So I began by questioning: Is there anyone who understands the real nature of space?

The question ‘what is the power of space?’ started to intrigue me. I have used my work to express and explore my curiosity with space and emptiness.

Using ordinary spaces, I fill them with a material (such as concrete or
plaster) and once it hardens, I remove it having captured in some way the
essence of the space. I would like to express ‘space = emptiness’ by using
different material with the same spaces, to show some common concepts of emptiness.

However, I have discovered that only using one material, the nature of the
object is stronger than the space. Thus, I use many different materials to
fill the space, and when they harden it compares to the space. It conveys an image of the nature of the space.