Full Name Nishino Tatsu Role Artist Name Tatzu Nishi | Occupation artist Nationality Japan | |
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Born 1960 Nagoya, Japan | ||
Education Musashino Art University | ||
Tatzu Nishi Discovering Columbus Art Exhibit - New York City
Tatzu Nishi (西野達, Nishino Tatsu, born 1960) is an internationally exhibited installation artist. He is known for transforming historical monuments by surrounding the statue or building with domestic spaces including functioning hotels.
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- Tatzu Nishi Discovering Columbus Art Exhibit New York City
- Behind the scene the merlion hotel tatzu nishi japan
- Early life
- Career
- Names
- Projects
- References
Behind the scene the merlion hotel tatzu nishi japan
Early life
Nishi was born in 1960 in Nagoya, Japan. He studied at Musashino Art University, Tokyo from 1981 until 1984. Later he moved to Germany and enrolled at Kunstakadamie, Münster.
Career
Nishi has built his fabricated hotels and apartments around historical monuments in Europe, Australia, Singapore and America.
For the 2011 Singapore Biennale the artist surrounded the city state's 70-ton cement Merlion statue with a luxury hotel room.
His first project in the United States was "Discovering Columbus", a penthouse apartment surrounding Gaetano Russo's statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle, Manhattan. For "Discovering Columbus", Nishi designed the living room with numerous pop references to American cultural symbols.
Names
Nishi often adopts different names while working on particular projects, for example Tatzu Oozu, Tazro Niscino, Tatsurou Bashi, and Taturo Atzu in addition to Tatzu Nishi.