The Container
Closes Aug. 29
On preparing to view the new solo show of American artist LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams — whose most recent activities include an attempt to sell the U.S. Venice Biennale Pavilion to help pay off U.S. debt, turning a closed art gallery into an artwork, and curating an art show that solely featured the labels of missing artworks — you could be forgiven for anticipating a likewise unconventional approach to art "creation".
Confounding these expectations, however, "Anything But," showing at The Container in Nakameguro, Tokyo, presents a series of abstract wall images drawn in a range of colored duct tape. Overlapping squares and rectangles of red, yellow, blue, green, white, black and amber create layered geometric forms with a surprising sense of depth and play on perspective. While evocative of abstract painting and graphic art, the works, on initial inspection, appear incongruous within the canon of the artist's aforementioned pieces.