| CAREER | 1951 Born in Wakayama, JAPAN 1957 Studied at TAKAMATSU Jiro Jyuku PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS: 2005 Gallery Yujitsu, Utsunomiya Gallery Kan, Tokyo ('04) 2003 Gallery Hinoki, Tokyo (1992) 1998 Tokiwa Gallery, Tokyo ('97/ '94/ '92) 1990 Tamura Gallery, Tokyo ('79/ '78/ '77) 1988 Shibuya Seibu Gallery, Tokyo ('86) SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2002 AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE, Sakuragawa Ibaraki ('01/ '99/ '79) 2001 9 CERAMISTS EXHI.. Gallery Todoran, Seoul KOREA 1996 DIALOGOS. Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki VERTICECAFE. Odesa UKRAINE 1994 La Parfum. Gallery KOUKI, Paris, FRANCE Curved Space. KUNSTHAUS Nuremberg, GERMANY 1991 New Plastic Art in Kasama. Kasama Nichido Museum of Art, Ibaraki 1990 Creation and Crops. Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo 1989 Pre-Existence. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 1987 2177 SPIRITUAL (km) Exhibition. Taipei Fine Art Museum, TAIWAN 1985 Tsukuba International Environmental Arts Symposium '85. Ibaraki 1983 Kyoto Independent Exhibition. Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto ('77/ '75) No Gravitation. The Miyagi Museum of Art, Miyagi 1982 The 8th Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition. Suma Detached Palace Garden, Hyogo |
THE 5TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
Ama Cyo To Sato Biki No Koku
Plaster, Wood, Cement, Stone, Tinplate, Iron
1000×1000×180 cm (8P)
900 kg (8P)
If I take a really good look at the society I am involved with, particularly artistic society, I find many things that are interesting. I'm going to think about the title. Its fun to think that if the "characters" of the title are the work, or if the "thing" that was the work becomes the title, the distinction between them will disappear.
THE 4TH EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
Let's look at photos of moss and mushroom taken by IZAWA Masana, Photographer of Nature.
Aluminum, Stone, Lens, The positive film taken by IZAWA Masana
30×30×30-90 cm (×17P)
Since last year I have built a device to show IZAWA Masana's photographs of molds, mushrooms and mosses in an enjoyable way, and I have presented it at elementary schools, mycology seminars, art exhibitions, museums and elsewhere. Now I look forward to showing the people of Amabiki, and the visitors to the Second Amabiki Village and Sculpture, the photographs of moss and mushrooms that IZAWA took in the course of six months of fieldwork.
THE 3RD EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
EXHUBITION OF AMABUKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE visitor's rest area provided by FUJIMOTO REST AREA ORGANIZATION
White Fifty chairs, Woods, White lacquer
Chair 43×40×73 cm (×50P)
Chair 5.5 kg
I make things, I show them to people, and that opens up communication.
I enjoy those things as I carry on with "creation".
Even if I am not aware of the distinction, that "creation" may be divided between "art" and "non-art". Thinking about from an economic perspective, things that seem to be only natural seem to become necessities, and in other areas there are still things I can't understand.
In this Amabiki Village and Sculpture exhibition, I took that as my theme, and I believe I was able to express the area around that boundary between what is art and what is not.
THE 2ND EXHIBITION OF AMABIKI VILLAGE AND SCULPTURE
Objectively admire
Plywood. Aluminum board. Telescope×2
I think the simple act of "looking" is undergoing great change, which we do not notice.
Now that things are becoming more virtual, blurring the boundaries between reality and unreality, I think the perception of something as real because its image has appeared on one's retina, and of the thing before one's eyes as something "seen", is becoming increasingly complex.
I want the things I examine to become part of the expression of that kind of "seeing".