Untitled

Nobuaki Kojima · 1964

This is an untitled figure by Nobuaki Kojima, nineteen sixty-four — painted plaster wrapped in strips of red and white cloth coated in resin. Red and white together are the colours of celebration in Japan, and of the national flag; wound around a body they read rather differently.

Medium Painted plaster and strips of red-and-white cloth coated with polyethylene resin · Dimensions 67 5/8 x 35 1/2 x 19 3/8" (171.7 x 90 x 49 cm) · Credit Given anonymously

Hanging beside it in Gallery 420: Los Desaparecidos (The Disappeared), Flying Object (Rocket)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, First Requiem, Round Bar of Wood, American Girl. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Flag