CRITICS
Reflections / Riflessioni – Bruno Munari
One perceives of a three-dimensional work by looking at the overall form, following along the surface, the various surfaces, following how the various elements have been put together. Thus one has the perception of the work as a whole. But actually, if the work is made of some opaque material, we only perceive it by looking over the visible surfaces, possibly moving around a three-dimensional work. The work could even be hollow, like some large sculptures, or even accessible to visitors…
Ōki Izumi – Gillo Dorfles
Overlapping rectangular glass sheets to form complex constructions has become a Ōki Izumi’s constant means of expression. It is a means which, transparent and yet rigid, evanescent yet solid, acts as both an incentive and a restraint on the Japanese artist’s imagination. A restraint insofar as the glass is a fragile，monochromatic material; it is
cold and hardly pliable…
The Cut of the Opaque – Tommaso Trini
Ōki Izumi has asked herself if, and how, the flowing, glass sculpture she has constructed over the past ten years can be defined as a form of conceptual art. This is an interesting question, particularly relevant insofar as ordinary definitions of architecture, object, event, or even the environment (particularly if taken individually) do not adequately define her work. It is a compact unit; it has a labyrinthine structure…
Who wrote about Ōki Izumi:
Tadao Amano, Grazia Ambrosio, Cristina Archinto, Anna Assumma, Maria Pia Bagnariol, Aleksander Bassin, Carlo Belloli, G.Benic’, Mirella Bentivoglio, Maristella Bodino, Francesca Bonazzoli, Matjaz Brulc, Susanne Capolongo, Maria Vittoria Carloni, Monica Carrara, Roberto Cascone, Claudio Castellani, Miriam Castelnuovo, Micaela Ceresa, Claudio Cerritelli, Mauro Corradini, Stefano Cortina, Marcella Cossu, Carmen Covito, Enrico Crispolti, Luca Cristiani, Eva Monica Curti, Ivana D’Agostino, Silvia Dell’Orso, Marina De Stasio, Fabia Di Drusco, Giorgio Di Genova, Anna Maria Di Paolo, Donato Di Poce, Gillo Dorfles, Antonio Faccioli, Valeria Fieramonte, Cristina Fiordimela, Matteo Galbiati, Alessandra Galletta, Francesco Gallo, Rosella Ghezzi, Anna Lisa Ghirardi, Giorgio Gregorio Grasso, Osami Hamaguchi, Peter M. Hornung, Ilaria Iannuzzi, Anna Imponente, Kenji Ishikawa, Sumiko Jotaki, Makoto Kaino, Lina Kalin, Hermina Kovacic, Jela Krecic, Ermanno Krumm, Elena La Cava, Carlo Lan Destino, Nadia Lattuada, Elisabetta Longari, Giorgio Longo, Marco Lorandi, Laura Maggi, Antonio Marazzi, Maria Grazia Marchelli, Alberto Mari, Gege Marogna, Kevin Mcmanus, Bruno Munari, Masao Murase, Elisabetta Muritti, Alessia Natali, Noriko Natsume, Nadia Nava, Antonello Negri, Arnaldo Novelletto, Helena Odlak, Michela Ongaretti, Alessandra Ottieri, Anthy Pansera, Franco Patruno, Peppo Peduzzi, Silvia Piermattei, Giorgio Pipitone, Maria Yvonne Pugliese, Anna Querci, Paola Rapelli, Elisabetta Ronchini, Beatrice Rossetti, Sergio Rossi, Elisabetta Rosso, Elisabetta Scantamburlo, Everina Schatz, Francesco Scialfa, Cristina Scoppa, Giorgio Segato, Giorgio Seveso, Mariastella Sguanci, Gabriele Simoncini, Maddalena Sisto, Stefano Soddu, Riccardo Sorani, Vladimir P. Stefanec, Giovanni Stipi, Carmelo Strano, Noriko Takiguchi, Dino Tedesco, Camilla Testi, Tommaso Trini, Miklos N. Varga, Luca Pietro Vasta, Maurizio Vitta, Beniamino Vizzini, Pierantonio Volpini, Michiko Yamaguchi, Isaku Yanaihara, Girberto Zacchè.