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Bringing the World into the World

QUEENS MUSEUM

June 14 - October 12, 2014

Bringing the World into the World will feature new commissions and existing works by Alighiero Boetti, Chris Burden, Ray and Charles Eames, Harun Farocki, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Hikaru Hayakawa, Yumi Kori, L+ [PAK Sheung Chuen, WO Man Yee, LEE Soen Long], Liu Wei, Robert Moses and Raymond Lester & Associates, Reanimation Library, Jessica Rylan, Tavares Strachan, Clarissa Tossin, Lawrence Weiner, and Wong Kit Yi.

New York Times / Art & Design / Art Review

If Seeing Is Believing, a Panorama of Truth ‘Bringing World Into the Word, ’ at the Queen Museum

By Roberta Smith, June 19, 2014

In contrast to Mr. Farocki’s teasing out of time, Hikaru Hayakawa, a Los-Angeles based Japanese artist, has created an implicitly panoramic compression. In “Panta Rhei (4,000 years of human history),” he tracks the rise and fall of civilizations, cultures and nations, and the wars that shaped them, in an elaborate bristling mass of carefully labeled copper piping that can also function as a fountain. One of the few handmade objects in the show, it is an appealing three-dimensional timeline that also suggests a failed machine, which may be fitting given some aspects of human history at the moment.

The Architectural League’s / Urban Omnibus

An Exhibit as Vast as the world

By Jonathan Tarleton, August 22, 2014

Other elements of the exhibition followed a similar mapping vein. Hikaru Hayakawa’s Panta Rhei (4,000 years of human history) charts just that through copper piping inscribed with the names of civilizations morphing into our modern nation-states. The tangle of pipes, intersections and branches representing conflicts and length denoting time in existence, physically embody human societies in a beautiful object. Hayakawa’s Study/2014 does something similar in the form of a wall drawing produced specifically for the exhibition.

Voice of America

From Vast to Nano, at NYC Museum

By Carolyn Weaver, July 16, 2014

In another room, a sculpture by Japanese artist Hikaru Hayakawa uses copper pipes to diagram human history. Originally made as a fountain, as an on-site video shows, the horizontal pipes stand for the life-spans of nation-states and empires, while vertical tubes represent moments of conquest, war or peaceful union.