The new exhibition at the Zenshi gallery in Kiyosumi is a breath of fresh air. Mikolaj Polinski's "One Day in Paradise" does not attempt to overwhelm the viewer with scale or new media technology, rather it operates from the simple but increasingly overlooked premise that good honest communication can and will carry a work.
This is an installation comprised of a large white fan, lazily rotating at a height of about 2 meters. The blades are a little longer than a meter apiece, painted white, and it's the sort of fan you might find in an older industrial space. On the walls, above the artificial plane described by the blades, are a set of about 40 pencil-on-paper drawings of various sizes. They are primitive line drawings, uncluttered, something like hieroglyphics, that depict whales, deer, trees, stars, bicycles and airplanes.
They are icons, says the artist, of his imagined "paradise." The funny thing about them is that they are mounted upside down. Why?