Another Land: After Noguchi

The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY
August 10, 2016 – January 9, 2017

Another Land: After Noguchi is a photographic response to the works of Isamu Noguchi (1904–88), using light as a sculptural tool to cast Noguchi’s work as distant objects in space. The project takes its point of departure from a 1968 sculpture of the same name by Noguchi, engaging the collection at The Noguchi Museum alongside iconic images from the history of space exploration. Noguchi’s “Another Land” is part of his granite  “landscape tables” that he produced from the late 1960s through the 70s, a period of heightened ecological awareness that was fueled in part by the first images of Earth from space. Raintree’s response developed over the course of a year and a half, integrating research within the Noguchi Museum Archives with onsite photography of Noguchi’s works, as he installed them within the museum. Another Land: After Noguchi brings together notions of geological time and scale that exist across Noguchi’s and Raintree’s practices.  

Another Land: After Noguchi represents the Noguchi Museum’s ongoing engagement with contemporary artists, writers, musicians, and others as a means of illuminating the scope of Noguchi’s vision and his continuing impact on our culture. The exhibition was curated by Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart and Associate Curator Matt Kirsch. It was accompanied by an illustrated exhibition catalogue, with an introduction by Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon and texts by Senior Curator Dakin Hart and Jay Bernstein, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, as well as an interview with the artist by Noguchi Museum Associate Curator Matt Kirsch. Production for Another Land: After Noguchi was provided, in part, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.