Tadashi Kawamata is the new attraction at Japan House São Paulo

In addition to the installation, the exhibition aims to highlight the versatility of the artist's work by also presenting a series of photos and videos with the main interventions carried out throughout his career.

Famous for reusing a wide variety of materials, such as wooden fragments, planks, barrels and chairs, 'Construção' was designed with scrap chopsticks , meaning that all the pieces used would be discarded as they did not meet the standard requirements for their traditional purpose. .

The assembly of the work Construção had the collaboration of dozens of students who participated in the institution's Volunteer Program, in which young university students of arts, architecture, design, among other areas, had the opportunity to help assemble the installation, under the supervision of artist's team. In total, there were more than 350 volunteers registered from various universities in the capital. “The involvement of the student community in this project was fundamental and reinforces the importance given to the different types of cultural exchange that we promote at Japan House São Paulo”, says Natasha . This collaborative process follows the logic that permeates the artist's work throughout his career.

At just 28 years old, Kawamata was invited to represent Japan at the 1982 Venice Biennale and has since produced international artistic interventions in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and New York, including two editions of Documenta in Kassel, Germany. This exhibition marks the artist's return to São Paulo, after more than 30 years of his first and only exhibition in the city, in 1987, when he participated in the 19th São Paulo International Biennial, with Nove de Julho Caçapava , an open-air intervention on Avenida Nove of July.