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Exhibition of Oscar Oiwa “Metropolis”

Published: June 1, 2023; Author: Julia Sonrisa

 June 8, 2023    06:00 PM-08:00 PM EDT

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Exhibition of Oscar Oiwa “Metropolis”

NowHere is pleased to announce the opening of “Metropolis” an exhibition of recent artworks by Japanese-Brazilian artist Oscar Oiwa.

Oscar Oiwa has special attachments to numerous cities. These places — Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris, and New York, deeply inform his art and the logic behind it. In this exhibition’s large-scale piece Zeus, for example, we see three of these cities writ large by Oiwa. These fantastical versions of each place are rendered, in marker, in a hyper-realistic fashion. The proximity between the real and the unreal is the life of the piece, and it reflects the experience of intimately knowing a favorite city, where memory, reality, dream, and geography all collide.

The Olympic games, with their connections to both the ancient and the contemporary worlds, were also a catalyst for Zeus. The games take over a city, present it to the world, recontextualize it, and compel its citizens to reevaluate their hometown. For Oiwa, the Olympics have both positive and negative impacts on their host cities. This ambivalence plays out in his work.

Gods and mascots. In a show that evokes both Zeus, the thunderbolt-wielding patriarch of the fearsome Greek Olympians, and Sam the Olympic Eagle, the cheery representative of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Oiwa levels the importance of the two. We might wonder whether any similarities might exist between them. Is a god merely a form of mascot? Might mascots find themselves elevated to the position of gods? In the art of Oscar Oiwa, anything seems possible.

Time: 6:00-8:00 pm EDT

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