"Undulating in a Utah Museum of Fine Arts gallery, thousands of glimmering casts seem to float throughout the space. For his large-scale installation "Stone on Boundary," Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi has suspended 5,000 copper foils that he molded over river rocks in both Osaka and Salt Lake City. Begun in the artist's studio in Osaka-a city where Japanese copper has been refined for export for around two centuries-the installation then traveled to the museum, which sits less than an hour's drive from the world's largest operational open-pit copper mine."
""The copper foil created by Onishi presents such absence and presence through molding, suggesting that to recognize things, it is essential not only to know the surface but also to richly engage the imagination-and that even with imagination, one cannot see everything," the museum says. For "Stone on Boundary," the thin metal molds create disc- and cup-like shapes that suspend along a wire framework, which reflects the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains around Salt Lake City. The installation also marks the artist's largest to date, spanning 12 x 22 x 14 meters."
Yasuaki Onishi created Stone on Boundary by molding copper foil over river rocks and suspending 5,000 of those casts in a Utah Museum of Fine Arts gallery. The work connects Osaka's two-century history of copper refinement with Salt Lake City's proximity to a major open-pit copper mine through shared material and industrial context. Onishi investigates positive and negative space, molding techniques, and material behavior to examine margins, voids, boundaries, and volume. Thin metal discs and cups hang from a wire framework that echoes the Wasatch and Oquirrh Mountains, and the installation spans 12 x 22 x 14 meters.
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