Located in the pre-security screening area in the international terminal, this exhibition’s two installations represent interior and exterior landscapes. The objects are drawn from Noguchi’s last two forays in sheet metal kirigami, combined with his Akari lanterns. The galvanized steel pieces in the exterior environment, made from the same material as guardrails and lampposts, were conceived as a series of editions to answer the great demand for outdoor sculpture by him with works that are, like Akari, relatively lightweight, inexpensive, playful, and unpretentious. In the interior environment, Akari lanterns join a related body of work in cut-and-folded bronze plate designed to winkingly play off of the perceived preciousness and self-seriousness of bronze sculpture.
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