The exhibition ‘Salvaged Time,’ on view at The Noguchi Museum, New York, February 23–May 15, 2022, explores how Isamu Noguchi found expressive potential in the full life of materials, through his creative reuse of quarry fragments, recontextualized millstones, driftwood, and the imperfections of individual stones. In this video, Matthew Kirsch, curator of 'Salvaged Time,' highlights key works that reveal how Noguchi incorporates castoffs and ‘beautiful waste’ from stonecutting and other aspects of his sculptural process, illuminating his appreciation for stone as an index of time.

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Salvaged Time
The Noguchi Museum, New York 
February 23–May 15, 2022
Learn more: noguchi.org/salvagedtime

Curated by Matthew Kirsch

Filmed on location at The Noguchi Museum, New York 
Directed & Edited by Alex Meillier
Produced by Ager Meillier Films Inc. 
Sound by Ryan Levitt

Installation photography by Nicholas Knight 
Archival photographs courtesy of The Noguchi Museum Archives

Artworks by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) 
© The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, NY / ARS

This film has been made possible with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

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