Piranesi/Shiota: Prisons of the Imagination
The exhibition juxtaposes Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s series of prints “Carceri d’invenzione,” from ca. 1761, with Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota’s 2012 installation Stairway: a web of black threads featuring a staircase. Shiota's heaped yarns create hatches and spaces reminiscent of etching and of Piranesi’s architectural fantasy spaces. The culture-dependent prisons of passion and nightmares exist in the artists’ imagination and incarcerate dreams and memories.
The exhibition is supported by The Japan Foundation and The Embassy of Japan in Israel
With heartfelt thanks to Ms. Ingrid Flick, without whose support this exhibition and catalogue would not have been possible