More materiality and Less humanity

Kiyoshi Yamamoto

Common to Yamamoto’s works is that they appear as both exploratory and sensory, where different materials and shapes merge into a larger composition. Yamamoto works with both sculpture, Performance, Textile, Glass, video, printmaking, and textile dyeing/weaving.

Yamamoto’s art is constant research, and through the materials, he metaphorically expresses his attitudes. Yamamoto, in particular, explores the relationship between color and identity and the relationship between activism and material experimentation.

For many years, Yamamoto has been inspired by the German artist and textile designer Anni Albers (1899-1994), who through a lifelong career explored textiles in a minimalist and graphic design language. He sees no contradiction in the fact that something that is industrially produced can also be seen as art. And the problems that this industrial production has directly to Nature, changing our ecosystems.

Kiyoshi Yamamoto was born in Brazil by Japanese parents. He lives and works in Bergen. He received his master’s degree in art from Bergen Academy of the Arts in 2013 and has studied at the London College of Fashion and the Escola de Belas Arts in Rio de Janeiro. Yamamoto is represented in several collections, including KODE Museum in Berge, museum in Trondheim Norwegian Parliament and the Norwegian Embassy in Brazil.

Yamamoto is currently show a new body of work at Trondelag senter for Samtidskunst in Norway and Rohsska Museum in Goteborg Sweden.

Yamamoto works as associated professor in the subject of color at University of Bergen. He is also gest teacher at Artic Univeristy in Tromsø and Sami University in Kaotokeino.