Parts of a city

Artwork Price: ¥88,000 (tax included)
Size: H30 x W22 x D7

Material: wood panel, mineral paint, glue, colored foil, metal band

Production year: 2024

Edition: one-of-a-kind

Framing: none

Work certificate: ◯

Sign: ◯
Sales period: 2025/1/19 (Sun) until 23:00 [first-come-first-served basis]

I bought a poster last year. It is a silk print of “computer nude” created by Leon Harmon and Ken Knowlton in 1960 during the early days of computers. This work was created with a collection of symbols, and although it is a low resolution bitmap image that looks like it was drawn on a screen door, it is a work that can be said to be the founder of all digital images up to the present day. For myself, who is fed up with so much information day and night, that amount of information was so comfortable that there was room for viewers to imagine.

　Install windows to gain sunshine. Hide outside eyes with screen doors, curtains, and blinds. It seems contradictory at first glance, but it is established in terms of balance between sunlight, a sense of openness, ventilation (benefits from outside), shading, and privacy (defense from outside). All of these are designed to make the room (inside) more comfortable.

　
I believe that painting has grown in its position as a “window to another world” in terms of visually preserving fantasies (including movement in time and space) or better reality. If an image which is not supposed to be there is projected as if a space has been cut out is used as a window to another world, its role can also be applied to various monitors used today. Raster images that have become highly detailed have reached a level where they are indistinguishable from analog output, and the significance of the existence of paintings as windows cannot be maintained without deifying materials (therefore, various ideas and media have been added until today, and paintings have continued to exist).

　Furthermore, modern monitors can not only be viewed due to the development of the internet, but also cause actions in that world and alter images. Since the window to another world has come to react, it has changed from the act of looking at a fixed window from one's room (inside → outside) where the view doesn't change much to the act of looking into the window of another person's house while moving at high speed by oneself (outside → inside).

In this exhibition, entitled “On Particles, Alignment, and Fixation,” small works about the size of a postcard will be exhibited as memos of thought leading up to the two existing series and titles.

A digital image composed of a window peeking out by drawing a string like a screen door on raster images printed on various materials. A simulation of a striped steel plate created using Japanese art materials as a symbol of the industrial revolution brought about by the Meiji Restoration and the rise of Japanese painting, and modern Japanese cityscapes. Each is responsible for the inner and outer worlds, and they are rearranged in the exhibition space.

　
More than half a century has passed since digital images were born, and we are now in an age where images can be generated without human intervention. If the role of painting as a “window to another world” were to end, paintability would still come down to physicality, and physicality would have to be called human nature.

　
It is hoped that by using digital as the main contractor, humans will be able to descend into machines based on their own bodies, and that the self that has planned this will be able to produce humanity.

Signed on the back of the work

This work will be exhibited at the solo exhibition “On Particles, Alignment, and Fixation” which will be held from 2024/12/21 (Sat) to 2025/1/19 (Sun) at GALLERY ROOM A, a commercial gallery in Asakusa.

Period
2024/12/21 (Sat) to 2025/1/19 (Sun) Venue GALLERY ROOM A Address 2-16-5 Honjo, Sumida-ku, Tokyo KAIKA TOKYO BY THE SHARE HOTELS 1F STORAGE 1

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Opening hours
08:00-23:00

Closed
every day during the exhibition

Admission
free

Access
8 minutes on foot from Asakusa Station on the Toei Asakusa Line, 9 minutes on foot from Honjo-Azumabashi Station, 9 minutes on foot from Kuramae Station on the Toei Oedo Line

Venue URL
https://artsticker.app/events/49172

Exhibition page URL

https://artsticker.app/events/52109