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20 OCTOBER
18:00 - 21:00
Private View
PRIVATE VIEW: SENSE OF TASTE
Ken + Julia Yonetani
Venue GV Art Gallery
Address 49 Chiltern Street, W1U 6LY
Nearest tube station(s) Baker Street
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Image: Ken + Julia YonetaniKen + Julia Yonetani

Ken Yonetani was born in 1971 in Tokyo, Japan and he and Julia live and work in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia. He was an assistant for pottery master, Toshio Kinjo, oldest son of Jiro Kinjo, national living treasure of Japan. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and was selected for the Australian contingent at The 53rd Venice Bienniale in 2009
Julia Yonetani is an artist, writer, and researcher, and has held university positions lecturing and researching. She has exhibited with Ken Yonetani at galleries such as the La Trobe Museum of Art, Melbourne, Jan Manton Art, Brisbane, and Campbelltown Arts Centre. In February 2010, she staged a bed-in with Ken at Federation Square, Melbourne. She has been involved in various environmental movements and represented Okinawan environmental groups at the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Amman, Jordan in 2000
website kenandjuliayonetani.com
DESCRIPTION
'Still life: the food bowl', 2011 by Ken + Julia Yonetani
Image: 'Still life: the food bowl', 2011 by Ken + Julia Yonetani
Sense of Taste by Ken and Julia Yonetani is inspired by the 1618 painting by Jan Brueghel the Elder of the same name. One of a series on the five senses, it depicts a new world based on unfettered consumption of luxury goods, at a time when expanding markets, colonisation and agricultural revolutions were feeding the increasingly lavish and abundant tables of the European upper class.
Nearly 400 years later, Ken and Julia Yonetani’s Sense of Taste ponders our obsession with sensual and material pleasures, reconnecting our sense of taste to the environmental impacts of what is on the dinner table. The exhibition comprises two main works, Sweet Barrier Reef and Still Life, the first made out of sugar and the second made entirely from salt.
In both works, sugar and salt become metaphors for human desire, colonialism, and a culture of hedonism, as well as the essential link to reconnect us back to a spiritual world of nature and magic.
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