Blum and Poe gallery host an exhibition by Tatzu Nishi, a Japanese artist based in Cologne, Germany. Tatzu's exhibition catalogue is extensive. He is an international artist, orchestrating works all over the world. His works, the works he envisions and conceptualizes usually involve the collaboration of engineers, fabricators and builders.
In this particualar show at Blum and Poe, Tatzu has created a chandelier from five 25' street lamps, suspended upside down in an array.
The lights descend through a skylight in the top of the middle gallery, with their posts projecting fifteen feet above the roof of the gallery. In the main gallery, Tatzu has made wall paintings as clocks, with actual synchronized clock movements on each. These walls, turned into clocks can be 'purchased' as a concept. Tatzu will come and install another similar clock on one of the walls of your home. This method of selling concepts reminds me of California artist, Ed Keinholtz, who sold all his work this way.In other works, not represented at Blum & Poe, Nishi has built structures and completely finished and furnished rooms around roof ornaments, famous sculptures and street lights. He extends the context of the gallery and the upset of the gallery by the readymade to a new level by building the 'gallery' around objects that otherwise go unappreciated and unnoticed.
