A note about exhibition 4

Size: H60 × W40 × D4 cm

Medium: acrylic paint and silkscreen on canvas

Year: 2025
Edition: one of a kind (unique piece)

Certificate: ⚪ ︎

Signature: ︎⚪ ︎

This painting is also used as a guide board for the exhibition venue of Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8 min. The fonts, character patterns, QR codes, and pictograms of guide boards made of cutting sheets that are usually installed at the venue are used as they are, and drawings of the exhibition plan and mouse trajectories are added to the interior.

Yamazaki has tried to turn exhibitions and explanations about his work into paintins in the past, and this work “A Note About Exhibition 4” is linked to that. The letters for posting set up at the venue are peeled off and disappear when the exhibition is over, and the exhibited works also leave for various places. It is one point that clearly shows Yamazaki's basic attitude of trying to leave an image of an instant in a painting that may remain for hundreds of years.

Yoshihiko Yamazaki is trying to draw images of moments that are not special, such as photographs and data of individuals in the smartphone/SNS generation, in paintings that may remain for hundreds of years. He says, “There is a psychological sense of distance in drawing simply by applying paint to the brush and performing expressions that make use of chance,” sketches are performed on software such as Photoshop and Illustrator, and then the work is assembled while using indirect techniques such as projectors, laser cutters, silkscreens, masking, and UV printers. The painting that appears in a real space for the first time in the final painting part shows the appearance of a workspace on software. Photos with layers added and images with curved edges, which should also be said to leave signs of a magic eraser tool or 3D scan, float while blending into a background uniformly painted in one color.

These images are taken from my own SNS account called “8da0b6,” which is used in many of the work's titles. There are things that can determine what is depicted based on shape and resolution, but there are also things that cannot. Each image is a photo taken in casual everyday life uploaded, and by being uniquely linked to place names and proper names within the account, the SNS account functions like a database full of personal gaze and language.

Also, what is characteristic of Yamazaki's work is the line, which has a thickness different from other images. This line visualizes the movement of a finger sliding on a smartphone screen or movement on a mouse or trackpad that occurs during PC work, which usually disappears without being recorded.

Period
May 31 (Sat) - July 1 (Tue), 2025

Venue

Gallery & Bakery Tokyo 8 min

Address

104-0031

TODA BUILDING 1F, 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Opening Hours
08:00〜19:00

Closed

Open every day during the exhibition period

Admission
Free

Access

3 min walk from exit 6 of Kyobashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

5 min walk from exit B1 of Nihonbashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.

8 min walk from the Yaesu Central Exit of Tokyo Station on all JR Line.

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