Three Windows: Sun, Moon, Stars April 18, 2008

Ippaku-tei Teahouse
Embassy of Japan
Open to the public: 12:00pm-5:30pm (Mon, Tue, Wed) 12:00pm-8pm (Thu, Fri) Photo ID required for entry

With THREE WINDOWS: Sun, Moon, Star, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto creates works for the first exhibition held in the Ippaku-tei teahouse at the Embassy of Japan. Brought from Kyoto, the Ippaku-tei was installed in 1960 to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of relations between Japan and the United States. The Ippaku-tei has never before been open to the public. Newly renovated, the teahouse and its garden will be available to the public for the first time ever during this exhibition.

Inspired by Sankou-tourou, the "three lights" lantern included in the original teahouse design, Turner-Yamamoto will create a room of the sun and a room of the moon and stars. In the room of the sun, located in the Buka-an tearoom, he will install a painting embodying a ghost-like sun image. The Hiro-ma (large room), will features "OMPHALOS," a stoneware sculpture using light and the smoke of burning incense to project a wavering image of the full moon onto a painting of stars suspended from the ceiling.

Official Website: http://www.embjapan.org/jicc