Yutaka Sone - Softcover

The companion publication to three exhibitions of Japanese-born, Los Angeles-based artist Yutaka Sone held within a six-month period at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois; the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, and the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland. At the Renaissance Society, Sone conceived the multimedia installation Forecast Snow, in which he envisioned snowflakes as blueprints for architectural spaces. For his winter 2006 exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, Sone presented snow-inspired paintings and sculptures, performance-related ephemera, objects, film, and photographs. Sone's painting Ski Madonna was featured on all lift tickets for the 2005-2006 Aspen ski season, and the artist's self-designed, eight-foot-cubed dice were tossed down the giant half pipe at Buttermilk Mountain, site of the Winter X-Games. At the Kunsthalle Bern, Sone's Like Looking for Snow Leopard continued his metaphorical quest towards the concept of an "unreachable place" by creating large and small-scale landscape-based multimedia, sculpture, paintings, drawings, and video works.