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Kosuke Tsumura's 'Cable Knits' Impress, Follow Upcycled Art Trend

Refuse has long been a popular medium in the contemporary art world, from Jessica Stockholder's abstract sculpture to Chris Ofili's appropriation of elephant dung, and it goes even as far back as Marcel Duchamp's readymade 'Fountain' and the beginning of objets trouvés. Lately, we've seen a ton of artwork made from discarded tech materials, like Nick Gentry's floppy disk paintings and Matthias Männer's cord creatures. Fully in line with the upcycled art trend comes Kosuke Tsumura's cable installations, which are on display now at the 'MODE less CODE' exhibition at Nanzuka Underground in Shibuya, Japan.

Avant-garde fashion designer and artist Tsumura takes the idea of "cable knit" to a literal extreme by weaving together discarded power strips, extension cords, LAN cables, iPods, and bits of cloth. Can we deduce meaning from these amorphous works? (Beyond the hackneyed "we're all bound up in the matrix/network of technology, blah blah" reading, that is.) It seems more likely that Tsumura is interested in material and shape (seeing as he is a fashion designer) than he is in any legible subtext. They may not be the most original artworks we've seen lately, but we like the outcome all the same. [From: Nanzuka Underground, via: Japan Trends, via: Gizmodo]

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