Tatzu Nishi is a Japanese artist, based in Germany, whose artistic practice focuses on historic monuments and sculptures.
Tatzu Nishi, War and peace and in between, 2009
For Nishi's Kaldor Project, War and peace and in between, he constructed a room around two enormous equestrian bronzes Offerings of Peace and Offerings of War, by Gilbert Bayes (1923). The viewers find themselves in a normal domestic living room and bedroom except the giant horse and rider wedged into a cabinet and the other on top of the bedsheets.
Tatzu Nishi, War and peace and in between, 2009
His works invite the audience to look at his works through "fresh eyes" that question their national statuary in a critical way. His installation's are site-specific and are displayed in public places in which he constructs a box-like domestic space around them. Nishi places his monumental sculptures in domestic situations flipping context and scale - from public to domestic, impersonal to private.
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