The Center Gallery at Fordham
University is pleased to
announce "ORIGAMI EXPLORATION", works by Yoshihara McKee Architects.
The exhibition features objects and spatial constructions created from folding.
Origami has long been associated with Japanese culture, but in this
exhibition there are no folded birds, animals or insects, instead there are
abstract mathematical artworks. The pieces are not the representation of things
but instead express the beauty of mathematical concepts.
Included are flat sheets folded into abstract landscapes that can once
again be completely flattened, sculptural enclosures made from one rectangular
sheet as well as art works created by repetitive patterns that can be expanded
infinitely. Yoshihara McKee also explores the various possibilities of folding
in architecture and design; enclosures, skins, and containers.
This exhibition
investigates the possibility of folding, but additionally it challenges western
cultural concepts by asking whether such objects
must be materially substantial, monumental and everlasting or can they be light,
ephemeral, and transient?