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Yutaka Sone Yutaka Sone condenses and transforms the gridlock and urban schizophrenia of the Los Angeles freeway system into a translucent marble sculpture of delicate beauty. A Japanese artist currently living in Los Angeles, Sone creates sculpture, painting, film and performance that address his desire to define "indefinite domains." Sone's work is highly influenced by chance, but his recent sculptures of Los Angeles freeway junctions appear resolutely determined if somehow unreal. Highway Junction 110-105, 2002, depicts the confusing tangle of roads, residences and commerce that form one of the sites Sone refers to as a "flower in the city."To create his improbable work, Sone, who has a master's degree in architecture, studies aerial photographs, sketches and hours of videotape. Every physical and material element is then recorded and transcribed into a model, which Sone transports to a factory in China. There, he works with a team of skilled artisans to create the final, transcendent sculpture, which reminds us that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder and can be found anywhere. Yutaka Sone was born in 1965 in Shizuoka, Japan and lives and works in Los Angeles, California and Tokyo, Japan. Sone is the subject of a 2003 solo exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Other recently solo exhibitions include the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota City, Japan (2002); ArtPace, San Antonio, TX (2000); David Zwirner Gallery, New York (1999); Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (1999). Among Sone's notable group exhibitions are Loop at P.S.I/MoMA Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York; 25th Biennal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Public Offerings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Yokohoma 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan; 7th International Istanbul Biennial 2001, Istanbul, Turkey; The Greenhouse Effect at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Sone holds an M.A. in Architecture and a B.F.A from Tokyo Geijutsu University.
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