Background
Nishi was born in 1960 in Nagoya, Japan.
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Tatzu Nishi
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Education
He studied at Musashino Art University, Tokyo from 1981 until 1984.
Career
He is known for transforming historical monuments by surrounding the statue or building with domestic spaces including functioning hotels. Later he moved to Germany and enrolled at Kunstakadamie, Münster. Nishi has built his fabricated hotels and apartments around historical monuments in Europe, Australia, Singapore and most recently in Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City: a penthouse apartment surrounding Gaetano Russo"s statue of Christopher Columbus.
Discovering Columbus was his first project to have been executed in the United States.
Foreign Discovering Columbus, Nishi designed the living room with numerous popular references to American cultural symbols in the abound possibly as a critique. Foreign the 2011 Singapore Biennale the artist surrounded the city state"s 70-ton cement Merlion statue with a luxury hotel room.
Nishi often adopts different names while working on particular projects, for example Tatzu Oozu, Tazro Niscino, Tatsurou Bashi, and Taturo Atzu in addition to Tatzu Nishi.
