[Circulate] One Thousand Clouds from the collection of Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

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[Circulate] One Thousand Clouds, 2006

Installation with drawing paper, graphite, performance video

Inv: 2020.15.1-1001

Location: Collection Storage Flat Storage

Gift of the Artist

Created during a 2006 artist residency at Davidson College and exhibited in the accompanying exhibition, Force of Nature. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston and the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College organized this exhibition and residency program, in collaboration with the College of Art and Architecture at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, McColl Center for Visual Art, Winthrop University, Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston, and the Sumter County Gallery of Art. The residencies and installations occurred in the fall of 2006, with a capstone exhibition at the Sumpter County Gallery of Art in April 2007. Funding for this collaboration was provided by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Asian Cultural Council.

For the 2006 installation at Davidson College, Abe created one thousand graphite drawings of clouds. First, building up the surface with graphite, then erasing layers to varying degrees, he created a visual reference to complement the experience of hearing the clouds in his installation. He then created a walk-in sphere that contained the sounds of clouds he recorded high above Lake Norman. Projected on the wall directly across from the “cloud sphere” was a digital animation of cloud drawings.

The artwork retained in the collection of Davidson College includes one thousand cloud drawings and the accompanying animation.

Bibliography

Thomas, Brad & Mark Sloan. Force of Nature. Van Every/Smith Galleries and Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, 2006.

From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

Darren Almond

FULLMOON@ARONDINE, 2001

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47.625 x 47.625 in (120.97 x 120.97 cm)
Robert Amberg

Auction, Bishopville, South Carolina, 1987

Gelatin silver print

12.5 x 18.5 in (31.75 x 46.99 cm)
Thomas Frederick Arndt

Killing a Cow, Sleepyeye, Minnesota, 1985

Gelatin silver print

16 x 20 in (40.64 x 50.8 cm)
Thomas Frederick Arndt

Coffee Shop/Auctionbarn, Sleepyeye, Minnesota, 1985

Gelatin silver print

12.125 x 18.25 in (30.8 x 46.36 cm)
Robert Amberg

Democratic Ward Committee, Grapevine, North Carolina, 1985

Gelatin silver print

8 x 12 in (20.32 x 30.48 cm)
Robert Amberg

Hoy Shelton Family Hanging Tobacco, Hopewell, North Carolina, 1983

Gelatin silver print

8.125 x 12.125 in (20.64 x 30.8 cm)
Robert Amberg

Doug Wallin Sowing Tobacco Bed, Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, 1978

Gelatin silver print

8.5 x 12.75 in (21.59 x 32.39 cm)
Ansel Adams

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Gelatin silver print

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About the artist

Takasumi Abe

Japanese

b. 1976

Takasumi Abe (born 1976) is a Japanese installation artist. He earned both his B.A. and M.F.A. in sculpture from Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka. Abe founded art space tetra, an artist-in-residency program in Fukuoka that promotes experimental art and music. His works have been exhibited across Japan, including at the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. In 2006, Abe participated in the "Force of Nature" residency and exhibition at Davidson College.

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Additional Artworks

FULLMOON@ARONDINE, 2001

Auction, Bishopville, South Carolina, 1987

Killing a Cow, Sleepyeye, Minnesota, 1985

Coffee Shop/Auctionbarn, Sleepyeye, Minnesota, 1985

Democratic Ward Committee, Grapevine, North Carolina, 1985

Hoy Shelton Family Hanging Tobacco, Hopewell, North Carolina, 1983

Doug Wallin Sowing Tobacco Bed, Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, 1978

Half Dome, Merced River, Winter, 1938

About the artist

Takasumi Abe