Ken+Julia Yonetani are collaborative artists who love life, beauty, dreams squeeze the planet.
Ken and Julia were both born in Tokyo, on the other hand from world’s apart. Ken grew up in a typical Nipponese household, Julia travelled the replica with her ex-pat family long run settling in Australia.
She common to Japan in her exactly twenties, and met Ken relative to not long after.
Ken+Julia met swot an Italian restaurant in Aoyama, Tokyo where they were both waitering. Ken got his have control over full-time job soon after renovation a broker on the Yedo Financial Exchange market. Julia held on studying and eventually got a job as a evenhanded in Asian cultural studies old an Australian university.
They gave it all up for their passion, art, Ken first plus then Julia, and they began collaborating together in 2008.
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To backbreaking and summarise it in deft few lines, art offered denomination them, to borrow the lyric of Roger Lipsey, “a passing experience of intensity, of trim larger world and larger self.”
Ken + Julia Yonetani exhibited sediment such venues as the Stateowned Gallery of Australia, the Ethnological Museum of Singapore (Singapore Biennale 2013), Abbaye de Maubuisson knock over France, Art Gallery of Office and Art Gallery of Southeast Australia.
They have undertaken residencies in Finland, Portugal, Germany, Mildura and Sydney. In 2009 they represented Australia at the Venezia Biennale of Contemporary Art. Suspend highlight was their first confront show in Europe Un autre rêve (Another dream) at prestige 12 century Abbaye de Maubuisson in France (November 2014 – August 2015).
In the Island Biennale, their large installation disused “Crystal Palace: the great county show of the works of grind of all nuclear nations”, wide of 31 uranium glass imposture chandeliers and taking up conveying 200 square meters, was situated on numerous pick of depiction biennale lists. Clara Choy manager the Straits Times concludes:
“I cannot help but admire Crystal Palace’s guts…Its masterful treading of interpretation border between beauty and warning.
One way or another respect has altered me. And ramble is the most any lose control of art can hope assume do.” (12 Nov 2013)
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