{"product_id":"17736-koki-tanakaprecarious-practice","title":"Koki TanakaPrecarious Practice","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003eThe Deutsche Bank honors the Japanese Koki Tanaka as Artist of the Year 2015. Tanaka follows Wangechi Mutu (Kenya), Yto Barrada (France\/Morocco), Roman Ondák (Slovakia), Imran Qureshi (Pakistan), and Victor Man (Romania) as the sixth international artist to be presented with this award. “Koki Tanaka is one of the most original artists of his generation to emerge on the global art scene in the last decade. A shrewd observer of the most ‘indifferent’ matters of the everyday, he always manages to magically transform them into fantastic events with a sense of humor, offering open but pungent implications that reveal the uncanniness of existence,” explains Chinese curator \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cA title=blocked::http:\/\/www.fondazionemaxxi.it\/2013\/07\/31\/hou-hanrou-e-il-direttore-artistico-del-maxxi\/?lang=en href=\"http:\/\/www.fondazionemaxxi.it\/2013\/07\/31\/hou-hanrou-e-il-direttore-artistico-del-maxxi\/?lang=en\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-underline: none\"\u003eHou Hanru\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/A\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e. Tanaka (*1975 in Tochigi, Japan) became known through installations and performances in which he implements everyday objects and material found in situ. A major share of his work consists of participatory projects that incorporate actors and exhibition viewers. Tanaka represented Japan at the \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cA title=blocked::http:\/\/2013.veneziabiennale-japanpavilion.jp\/ href=\"http:\/\/2013.veneziabiennale-japanpavilion.jp\/\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; text-underline: none\"\u003e55th Venice Biennale\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/A\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US\"\u003e in 2013, where his unsettlingly simple experiments proved that collaborations can pose a huge challenge. \u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874879926536,"sku":"9783775739931","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775739931_ddcd0f3b-9e82-465d-b75e-2056c914e89c.jpg?v=1744108007","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/17736-koki-tanakaprecarious-practice","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}