It was 112 years ago when Vincent van Gogh sat down to paint his bedroom in the famous yellow house at Arles. After a few hours of frantic work, the three-dimensional room had been transformed into a two-dimensional masterpiece.
Finding the room "preserved" in this way, Japanese artist Seiichi Aoki set about releasing it once more, like a genie from a bottle, into the fullness of three dimensions. Using all his painting, sculpting and woodworking skills to make the bed, the walls and the furniture, he created a convincing 3-D representation of van Gogh's vision.
Along with the "Bedroom at Arles" (1888), his current exhibition at the Plus Minus Gallery also features 3-D representations of Cezanne's "The Basket of Apples" (1895) and Rousseau's "The Football Players" (1908), all works from the early period of modern art. Is he obsessed by this period?