venice biennale 2001. photoreport on the 49th art exhibition ...............................................................................................................................................

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japan artist: yukio fujimoto (nagoya/japan, 1950) naoya hatakeyama (iwate pref/japan, 1958) masato nakamura (odate city/japan, 1963) commissioner: eriko osaka masato furuya haruhisa sunami fast & slow: stereotyping by diminishing the existence of cultural differences, globalisation: photographs of the osaka stadium and various sites of tokyo, an installation of 9 mc donald's trademark sculptures, which fill the entire gallery with yellow light. only one sound of chords from a keyboard. slowing down: in the small lower gallery, painted charcoal grey, only two photographs and a small sculpture are exposed, you can hear a delicate sound... 70 photographs of tokyo by naoya hatakeyama untitled/osaka, 2000 by naoya hatakeyama fast quicktime clip (91kb) mc donald trademarks along the walls small plexiglass sculptures by masato nakamura, 1998 giant mc donalds trademarks, 1998 by masato nakamura electronic keyboards installation, 1997 by yukio fujimoto

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