Skulpturenpark Köln

Tatzu Nishi aka Tazro Nishino aka Tatsurou Bashi (b.1960 in Nagoya/ Japan) works in Cologne. His installations are always site specific, employing street furniture such as lamp posts, monuments, or, as was the case at Basel Minister, a weathercock. With enormous effort and the aid of containers the artist constructs completely authentic-looking, walk-in architectural replicas of living rooms, kitchens or hotel bedrooms around an item of street furniture - occasionally at dizzy heights. This manipulative recontextualisation quotes and ironises architectural realities, and in this way creates thoroughly typical spatial feelings divorced from their normal perceptual context.