ART-CON-OHT

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Spatial Construction

accumulation as cosmos

ART-CON-OHT

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accumulation as cosmos

ART-CON-OHT

accumulation as cosmos

Index Code:

ART-CON-OHT

Orgin:

Japan

Field Notes:

Books signs metal and paint layer into dense blocks that feel excavated and rebuilt

Defining Moment:

The scrap based constructions where every surface records years of addition and erasure

Shinro Ohtake

(

1955–

)

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Ohtake built a world where collage expands into universe — scraps, images, and debris layered into dense visual galaxies.

His works turn excess into ordered chaos.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Shinro Ohtake’s work, this approach appears where accumulation records memory.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Shinro Ohtake’s work, this approach appears where accumulation records memory.

Material Intelligence

Material behavior actively determines structural decisions.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Space is structured through openings, intervals, and boundary conditions.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Everyday materials disrupt conventional meaning and authorship.

Japanese Abstraction

Abstraction emerges through restraint, material sensitivity, and gesture.

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Material determining architectural form

Shozo Shimamoto

Impact as geometry

In Dialogue

Gesture as structure

Material determining architectural form