- Artist
- Noriyuki Haraguchi born 1946
- Medium
- Acrylic paint on canvas mounted on plywood
- Dimensions
- Object: 1240 × 1550 × 360 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased with funds provided by the Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee 2013
- Reference
- T13874
Display caption
Haraguchi is from Yokosuka, the primary US naval base in Japan during the Vietnam War. He has said he came to understand ‘the true nature of creativity’ after watching a jet fighter being transported onto the naval base in 1968. He handcrafted a full-scale reproduction of the jet’s tail and made a related series of Airpipe constructions that resemble the jet engine exhausts. Bulging out from the wall, this piece demonstrates Haraguchi’s ability to combine a minimalist sculptural vocabulary with the aesthetics of militarism and heavy industry, raising questions about the environment, modernisation and war.
Gallery label, January 2016
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