Group exhibition
The Corners of the Cloud
at Alte Feuerwache, Berlin
Jun.24 – Aug.13 2023
“Berliner Forest 2021-2023″
2023 / H.428 W.190 D.50cm
twigs, brass rings
“Die gotische Säule”
2023
twigs, brass rings
Borrowing landscapes, Borrowing lives
Solo exhibition at Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya
29.Sep.-29.Oct. 2023
Wave Sculpture (1/3)
“Berliner Forest 2021-2022″
2022 / H.315 W.175 D.45cm
twigs, brass rings
“Sky Sculpture - 20.Jan.2021 8:18 Osaka”
2022 / H.59.4 B.84 D.3 cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
“Wave Sculpture - 21.Sep.2021 16:06 Cascais #2″
2022 / H.42 B.60 D.4.5cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
“Wave Sculpture - 21.Sep.2021 16:06 Cascais”
2022 / H.42 B.60 D.4.5cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
Wave Sculpture (2/3)
“Wave Sculpture - 20.Oct.2020 10:31 Maedamisaki”
2022 / H.59.4 B.84 D.3.5 cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
“Floating Wood”
2022 / L.154 W.46 H.37 cm
Urushi lacquer on the log
“Wave Sculpture - 20.Mar.2020 10:23 Naruto”
2022 / H.41.9xB.118.6xD.3.5 cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
“Wave Sculpture - 19.Jan.2020 13:38 Nagato”
2022 / H.42xB.59.1xD.3.5cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
“Wave Sculpture - 19.Jan.2020 13:45 Nagato #2″
2021 / H.42xB.59.1xD.3.5cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
Wave Sculpture (3/3)
solo exhibition
Galerie Martin Mertens
19.March - 23.April 2022
“One Sticks - gold -”
2022 / H.188 W.22 D.24cm
branch, brass pipe
“One Sticks - silver -”
2022 / H.64 W.12 D.14cm
branch, brass pipe
“Berliner Forest T 2022″
2022 / H.214 W.115 D.16cm
twigs, brass rings
“above & under us”
2020 / H.84.1 B.118.9cm
aluminium mounted photo
Die with This Land (1)
Artist in Residence & Exhibition
14-23.Feb.2021
Akiyoshidai International Art Village
“Sky Sculpture - 04.Aug.2020 17:16 Berlin”
“Sky Sculpture - 27.Jul.2020 15:42 Berlin”
“Sky Sculpture - 04.Aug.2020 17:15 Berlin”
“Wave Sculpture - 19.Jan.2020 13:38 Nagat”
“Wave Sculpture - 21.Feb.2019 15:37 Tokyo”
“Wave Sculpture - 19.Jan.2020 13:45 Nagat”
2020 / H.42 B.60 D.4.5cm
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium, CDF
“ammonite & rose window #2”
“ammonite & rose window #1”
“ammonite & rose window #3”
2020 / H.22.7 B.10.2 D.1.8cm
fossil of an ammonite
“Wave Sculpture - 1.May.2019 8:43 Venice”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
19.8 x 54.6 x 3cm
“Wave Sculpture - 1.May.2019 9:43 Venice”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
30 x 84 x 3cm
“Wave Sculpture - 30.Apr.2019 10:34 Venice”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
42 x 60 x 3cm
“Wave Sculpture - 1.May.2019 9:44 Venice”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
42 x 118 x 3cm
“Sky Sculpture - 13.May.2019 16:06 Berlin”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
60 x 84 x 3cm
“Sky Sculpture - 7.Sep.2019 15:17 Berlin #2”
2019
marble, acrylic mounted photo, aluminium
60 x 84 x 3cm
Between the sea and sky (1)
artist in residency 8.Jan. - 12.Mar. 2020
exhibition 1.Mar. - 8.Mar. 2020
at Akiyoshidai International Art Village
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During the residency program at AIAV, Ueno created three projects using Mine city’s rich mineral resources. The first project is called ‘Sky Sculpture Project,’ which is a combination of photographs of clouds shot in Akiyoshidai and marble slabs from Mine City. The slabs are also used at Akiyoshidai International Art Village and National Diet Building. Marble from Mine City contains patterns called “Kasumi (haze)” or “Arare (hail)” among others. The physicality of marble remains the same over hundreds of millions of years while the form of clouds changes constantly, but here they are united as one. Marble is a reference to realistic sculptures, which have a deep historical connection to ancient Greek art. Even after the exhibition, viewers will be led to associate various cloud patterns with marble, and vice versa, thus they can also feel artistic reality in our everyday life.
The second project is about sculpting on fossils. In Mine City, fossils of the fern family and ammonites can be quarried. By sculpting Damask patterns and decorative motifs that can be found on a 10,000 yen bill on stones with these fossils, a trace of ancient life and artifacts of the present-day connect to each other. By positioning my sculptures besides the fossil such that the two elements seem to confront each other, Ueno questions what sculpture is and what reality is.
Between the sea and sky (2)
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The third project is about anthracite, which could be found in Ohmine coal field. In Meiji 30th (1897), Eiichi Shibusawa (he will be featured on the new 10,000 yen bills) founded Nagato Anthracite Ltd. Upon the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Navy took over his business. Heihachiro Togo (Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet) attended the opening ceremony of the South pit of Okuhata Horizontal shaft in Meiji 39th (1906). Warships then used coal as fuel, but this emitted smoke, which exposed their locations to the enemy. Anthracite was thus very useful as it doesn’t emit smoke. Ueno researched on the history of the abandoned pit and created a series of works out of actual burnt anthracite, among others.
Clouds become rain which falls onto land, forming rivers and flowing into seas, before they transform into clouds again. Marble quarried in the mountains of Mine City often contains fossils of shellfish. Coal from a coal mine in Mine City was transported to the ocean and used by Japanese Navy. Substances and energies circulate through the ocean, sky and land. Humans live, fight, die and become ash, partaking in the circulation which Ueno present here in the exhibition.