Never Comes Tomorrow

The Trust for Gov­er­nors Island is pleased to present its 2018 com­mis­sion, Jacob Hashimo­to on Gov­er­nors Island, open­ing to the pub­lic June 2 and on view dai­ly though Octo­ber 31.

Show­cased in New York City for the first time, Hashimoto’s The Eclipse is a mon­u­men­tal work of thou­sands of del­i­cate rice paper kites, envelop­ing view­ers in a tan­gi­ble, yet ever shift­ing fog. Orig­i­nal­ly installed at the Palaz­zo Flangi­ni dur­ing the 57^th Venice Bien­nale, the cloud-like work has been new­ly adapt­ed for Gov­er­nors Island’s St. Cor­nelius Chapel, wind­ing, bend­ing and at times con­sum­ing the archi­tec­ture. St. Cor­nelius Chapel, owned by Trin­i­ty Church Wall Street, will open its doors for the first time since 2013 for vis­i­tors to delight in the piece.

Con­trast­ing the instal­la­tion in near­by St. Cor­nelius, Hashimoto’s Nev­er Comes Tomor­row is a col­or­ful, whim­si­cal over­head out­door instal­la­tion adapt­ed for Gov­er­nors Island’s land­mark Liggett Hall Arch­way. Con­struct­ed of hun­dreds of wood­en cubes and mas­sive steel fun­nels, this high ener­gy sculp­tur­al instal­la­tion plays with the archi­tec­ture of the pas­sage­way, cre­at­ing a vir­tu­al time tun­nel or vor­tex between the Island’s His­toric Dis­trict and new­ly designed park with its col­or­ful instal­la­tion of forms. Nev­er Comes Tomor­row merges Hashimoto’s inter­ests in the sys­tems of archi­tec­ture, his­to­ry and cosmology.

The exhi­bi­tion is the first instal­la­tion of works by Jacob Hashimo­to on Gov­er­nors Island and his first major pub­lic art exhi­bi­tion in New York City. Using sculp­ture, paint­ing and hang­ing instal­la­tions, Hashimo­to cre­ates com­plex worlds from a range of mod­u­lar com­po­nents, includ­ing bam­boo-and-paper kites, mod­el boats, even astro turf-cov­ered blocks. Hashimo­to has been fea­tured in solo muse­um exhi­bi­tions at MOCA Pacif­ic Design Cen­ter in Los Ange­les, the Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art in Rome, Fon­dazione Queri­ni Stam­palia in Venice, the Los Ange­les Coun­ty Muse­um of Art, Schauw­erk Sindlefin­gen in Ger­many and the Wäinö Aal­to­nen Muse­um of Art in Fin­land. He is a grad­u­ate of The School of Art Insti­tute of Chica­go and lives and works in Queens, New York.

Gen­er­ous sup­port for The Eclipse and Nev­er Comes Tomor­row is pro­vid­ed by Bloomberg Phil­an­thropies, Cha­ri­na Endow­ment Fund and Trin­i­ty Church Wall Street.