LEMONISM x JAPONISM | *MINIMALISM | SYMBOLISM | ACTIONISM | 2016
“ A rhizomatic performance series goes on”

The features of the 1960s art movement aiming for reduction and clear, geometrical forms become the aesthetic guiding theme for Akemi Takeya‘s performative investigation. She becomes a geometrical sculpture herself while her body is imprinted point by point, becoming abstract and fragmented. In Takeya‘s lemon universe the minimalism is connected with the item “Model X8”, with the exemplary. For her performance at Leopold Museum Egon Schiele becomes the model for the ingenious artist, the postures of his artist models turn into the prefiguration for the physical enactment. Schiele‘s art is transformed into a model which Takeya uses to go through her vocabulary of minimalist shapes and body language turning the exemplary into abstract.

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