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| 鉱物標本インスタレーション《石のインデックス》 東京大学総合研究博物館蔵 |
Stones are among the natural substances which have very little to do with human consciousness. In the traditional classification of the natural world dating back to Aristotle, the mineral world was a major constituent along with the animal and vegetal realms; however, it was also the only one to be dissociated from the organic environment surrounding humans. Inorganic minerals produced in the course of a geological temporality beyond the scope of human imagination offered a unique material, both complex in structure and resistant, that could defy the passing of time. Special Exhibition “The Quarries of Imagination — Stones between Art and Artifact”
It was an interesting exhibition in that it was a mixture of a museum exhibition method and a modern art exhibition method, and it returned to the theme of a stone before it was divided into natural history and art.
