Umarly Teatr, Kyoto, Japan by JP architects

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JP architects设计了这场名为“向Tadeusz KANTOR致敬－死亡剧院”的展览。Tadeusz KANTOR作为著名的先锋艺术家，创作了一系列如戏剧表演“死亡之课”等杰作，而这些作品通常带有“死亡”的象征。

Exhibition design of “HOMAGE TO Tadeusz KANTOR – The Dead Theater”. Tadeusz KANTOR is the late famous Polish vanguard artist. His works always represented [Death] such as his masterpiece“The Dead Class”(theatrical performance).

在这件向KANTOR致敬的作品中，设计团队先在场地中放置几扇暧昧而难以分清内外的窗户，然后将距地面1.5米地高度之下的、包括墙壁在内的所有事物都涂上一层半浓度的灰色。而前来参观的人们不得不被引领着穿越空间中这些边缘和界限。

In displaying homage art pieces of KANTOR, I set some windows that can not judging which is outside or inside, and painted out all the things until 1.5m height from the floor by a halfstrength-gray. Appreciators are led to keep on crossing some kind of boundary in the space.

▼被灰色浸透的“死亡剧场”，”The Dead Theater” soaked in the grey

这种灰色被称为“N3.5”，通常用来填涂在建筑内的辅助材料上。这种既不太黑又不太亮的灰色可以抹出一切物质的存在，在融合了每一种颜色之后，就成为了虚无本身，也因此象征着“死亡的颜色”。而这种不起眼的、象征死亡的颜色也将场地染为一个1.5m深的灰色池塘。

This gray is called “N3.5”. It is usually painted on a supporting materials in buildings. This gray kills any presence because it is neither too dark nor too light. It is nothing – reaching after mixing every colors. So that means “the color of death”. Then I made a pool of 1.5m depth by the gray of death which has never been the leading role.

▼绝处逢生的灰色池塘，a breathtaking pool of the grey

当观者坐在剧场之中欣赏着每一处细节，就好似在屏住呼吸潜入一池死亡的泥淖。设计团队希望观者可以将剧院的灰色底部想象成一个绝望的世界，然后在这“死亡的交界处”反复地换气又下潜，从而感受到人生的无力与疲惫之感。

Sitting and Appreciating pieces in this theater is like diving into mud of death with holding breath. I’d like you to think that the lower half of the theater is a desperate world so much. Consequently, you would feel an overwhelming-life with the repeat of breathing and diving on the interface of the overwhelming-death.

▼模型，model

Project Info
Location: Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA
Category: Exhibition Design
Construction area: 218.00 sq.m
Exhibition Organizer: Kyoto City University of Arts
Curation: Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, KASUYA Akiko (Professor at Kyoto City University of Art)
Contractor: IKEDA Seido, YASUDA Tomoshi
Design Period: 2015.09.
Construction Period: 2015.09. – 2015.10.
Photography: Takeru Koroda (01, 05, 09, 11, 12), Takuya Ohshima (The others)

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