2024　　保坂毅：Takeshi Hosaka

保坂毅：Takeshi Hosaka

“ ケ の bi の 図：Art in Mundane ; Being in Everyday ”

2024, Jun. 1 ( Sat. ) ー 22 ( Sat. )

「保坂毅からのメッセージ」

生活に追われ日常から美術的なモノ・コトが剥落していく中で、まだ自然の側に近いわが子が切り抜いた折紙に足を止める。

”ある”という感覚はbe動詞のない日本語話者の自分にとって乏しいけれど、モチーフの欠片は日々のそこここに既に“ある”。

一方時を同じくして世界では戦争や原発事故などの出来事が進行しており、収束の兆しも見えない。福島出身の自分にとって原発事故の行く末は関心事のひとつであるが、核燃料の残骸は地中深くの暗闇の中で一体どうなっているのだろうかと、ぼんやりと考えながら日々が過ぎる。

“ Message from Takeshi Hosaka ”

In the rush of daily life, as the presence of art and creative practice fade from the routine, I pause to admire an origami cut by my child, who remains closely connected to nature. The concept of “being” feels somewhat elusive to me as I speak Japanese, which lacks a direct equivalent of the “be-verb.” Yet fragments of motifs already “exist" here and there in everyday life.

Meanwhile, as the world concurrently witnesses wars and nuclear accidents with no end in sight, the future of the nuclear disaster is of particular concern to me, hailing from Fukushima. I often find myself idly wondering about the fate of nuclear fuel debris buried deep in the darkness underground as days go by.

保坂毅は、ミニマルやコンセプチュアルアートの盛り上がりも収束し、彼らの実験が美術界の基礎言語になった2000年以降にその作家としてのキャリアをスタートしました。保坂は自身の絵画を２次元と３次元の狭間で展開させてきたのです。オブジェのような３次元の支持体に描かれた色面・ストライプ・チェックは、観る者の視点の移動により３次元に見えたり２次元に見えたりと、オブジェ的絵画と空間・観客の視点に関する実験と言えるものでした。

今回の個展「ケのbiの図」で、保坂は今までの試みを１枚の「絵画」という２次元に還元・統合しようとしています。「ケのbiの図」とは言い換えれば「日常の美の図」、保坂が考える絵画の基本要素に関する考察と、それを美しい絵に仕上げるという試みの展覧会という事なのです。遠近法的に絵画に施された線は、１枚の絵画に仮想空間を生み出し、カラフルな色面は絵画的情緒を排する為に均一に彩色され、そのアウトラインにのみ空間との関係性を示しながら構成されています。保坂が必要とする絵画要素のみのシンプルな絵ですが、よく見れば複層した空間と、それに付随した色彩の方向・位置の存在感が複雑に絡み合っています。色彩の塊は、上下左右あるいは前後の仮想空間のそれぞれの面に設置あるいはそこから生え出てきている様に見えます。絵画が本来持ってりるイリュージョン、そこに展開する物語や象徴性をモダニズムを経た保坂の目と思考で再構築したのが、今回の展覧会です。特に昨年開催されたマチス展、マチスの色彩と複雑な空間構成からは大きな影響を受けたかも知れません。今回の個展は西洋とは異なる２次元感覚の強い、日本という美術環境に育った保坂の、絵画への新たなオマージュの初めの一歩と言えるものです。令和の龍安寺の石庭の様な絵画からは、保坂がそれぞれの作品の空間と色彩に込めたリズムを感じていただける事と思います。保坂の新作個展「ケのbiの図」をよろしくお願い申しげます。

Hosaka Takeshi began his career as an artist after 2000, when the excitement of minimal and conceptual art had subsided and their experiments became the basic language of the art world. Hosaka has developed his paintings in the space between two and three dimensions. The colored surfaces, stripes, and checks painted on the object-like three-dimensional support appeared three-dimensional or two-dimensional depending on the viewer's shifting perspective, making this an experiment in object-like painting, space, and audience perspective.

In this solo exhibition, "Art in the Mundane : Being in Everyday," Hosaka attempts to reintegrate his previous attempts into the two-dimensional realm of "painting. In other words, “ Art in the Mundane : Being in Everyday ” is an exhibition of Hosaka's thoughts on the basic elements of painting and his attempts to make them into beautiful paintings. The lines in the "painting" create a virtual space in the painting as perspective. The colorful surfaces are uniformly colored to avoid pictorial sentiments, and only their outlines indicate their relationship to the space. The painting is simple, with only the pictorial elements required by Hosaka, but a closer look reveals a complex interplay of multi-layered spaces and the accompanying presence of color directions and positions. These various colored surfaces appear to be placed on or growing out of each surface of the virtual space, either up, down, left, right, front, or back. Hosaka has reconstructed the inherent illusion of painting, not through narrative, but through color and form in this exhibition. In particular, we may have been greatly influenced by the Matisse exhibition held last year, Matisse's colors and complex spatial composition. This solo exhibition is the first step of a new homage to painting by Hosaka, who grew up in Japan, an art environment with a strong two-dimensional sensibility that differs from that of the West. Hosaka's new works seem to be the paintings of the stone garden of Ryoanji Temple. Please enjoy the rhythm of colors that Hosaka has put into the space of each painting.

We look forward to seeing you at Hosaka's new solo exhibition, “ Art in the Mundane : Being in Everyday.”