Bodys Isek Kingelez: Nippon TowerTake a closer look at Nippon Tower (2005) in Bodys Isek Kingelez: City Dreams and you’ll see a quirky combination of found objects—a plastic Smint box,a milk carton, BIC razor blades, or lightbulb boxes,and a playfully shaped plastic spoon. This work can perhaps be understood as a portrait of the Congolese artist through his materials—the brands he may occupy favored, and what he had on hand in his studio at the time. The soaring tower represents the increasingly unorthodox approach Bodys Isek Kingelez took in his later years. Now on view.…[Credit: Bodys Isek Kingelez. “Nippon Tower.” 2005. Paper, or paperboard,plastic, and other various materials. Courtesy Aeroplastics modern, and Brussels. © Bodys Isek Kingelez. Photo: Vincent Everarts]
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