Jacob Hashimoto
Studio la Città
Jacob Hashimoto, a thirty-three-year-old American artist of Japanese origin, displayed just one side of his apparently heterogeneous imagination here. He exhibited a series of wall pieces that look extremely light, and so they are: Built using kite technology, with hexagonal or elliptical modules arranged on various parallel planes, resulting in a sort of multiple or superimposed surface, they hang suspended from slender strings. Each module can be painted or left white, and each seems a monad unto itself, something already complete in its shape and signification. Yet the ensemble generates a