Shinjuku calling
2014
- Medium
- pencil on panel, high definition video projector, Blu-ray player
- Measurements
- 205.0 × 330.0 × 4.0 cm (panel) 8 min 56 sec
- Accession Number
- 2016.61
- Department
- International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation with the assistance of Esther Frenkiel OAM and David Frenkiel, 2017
© Yukihiro Yamagami, courtesy of Gallery Parc - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Yamagami Yukihiro’s installation Shinjuku calling is a moving portrait of the district around Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station, the world’s busiest train station. The work consists of two parts; a meticulous pencil drawing of the streetscape provides the surface onto which a video is projected. The drawing depicts pedestrian crossings, elevated railway tracks and neon-adorned buildings, and the video projects ghostly footage of passing pedestrians, trains and traffic, as well as the changing light as day passes into night. The drawing and video fuse into a complex, multifaceted evocation of place imbued with a poetic sense of transience.
- Subjects (general)
- Cityscapes Structures
- Subjects (specific)
- bridges (built works) cities Japan (nation) railroads (infrastructure) roads streetscapes Tokyo (inhabited place) urban areas
- Movements
- Contemporary (style of art)