Takeshi Takamatsu

　The material called iron has a history of being used as a structural material for weapons and buildings. Hard, heavy iron has been closely linked to the genealogy of human technology and violence. Above all, since modern steel is inexpensive and has structural strength, it is treated as a material optimized for capitalist production and supply systems. Specialized techniques and tools have been essential for this processing.

　I create works by bending this iron by hand. Keep a distance from tools and institutionalized technology, and throw on life-size effects. We are trying to elicit relationships with physicality that are different from what iron talks about.

　Technology cannot be completely separated from production. Technology inherently has the power to “bring things forward.” It is not a method that can be predicted for the right purpose, and it is linked to technology in a way that does not go the way one wants, including failures, accidents, and errors.

　Jacques Rancière's “emotional partage” re-questions the conditions of what can be visualized and who can be opened to it. During production, the hardness of steel, physical strength, and the modeling we are aiming for. When they are parted (splitted/shared), I feel like I can move away from the image that iron has.

[Biography]

Takeshi Takeshi Takamatsu

Born in Moriguchi, Osaka in 1997, raised in Hirakata

Graduated from Osaka Prefectural Yodogawa High School of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering in 2016

Graduated from Osaka University of Arts, Department of Crafts, Metal Crafts Course in 2020

Completed the first semester of the doctoral program (crafts) at Osaka University of Arts Graduate School of Art Production in 2022

◇Awards

2020 Gakuenmae Art Festa Selection Exhibition Honorable Mention

2024 Sculpture Open Call 5th Iriya KOUBO Grand Prize

◇Solo exhibition

2020/09 “Be Bummed, Happy” gekilin. /Osaka

2020/11 “So, Fuku” COCO COFFEE maenonagaya/Nara

2021/11 “becoming life-size” Gekilin. /Osaka

2022/11 “The Shape of Texture” gekilin. /Osaka

2023/11 “Ambient and Neighbors” COCO COFFEE/Nara

2024/03 “Sinking into the Fog” MEDIASHOP/Kyoto

2024/09 “Reflect Composition” gekilin. /Osaka

2025/08 “Handmade Partage” Iriya Gallery/Tokyo

◇Planning

2019/12 HYO_SO_ 1st Exhibition Surface Breathing Flat Space/Osaka

2021/03 HYO_SO_ 2nd Exhibition: The Occurrence of Surface Layers MEDIA SHOP/Kyoto

2022/02 HYO_SO_ 3rd Exhibition Shinya Yamada x Takamatsu Takeshi “Holding/Holding” 2kw GALLERY/ Shiga

2023/03 HYO_SO_ 4th Exhibition “Borrowed Scenery” Midori.so GALLERY/Tokyo

2025/05 HYO_SO_ 5th Exhibition “The Economy of Demolition” JITSUZAISEI/Osaka

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◇Art festivals, art fairs

2018/09 KUDOYAMA ART WEEK Kudoyamacho/Wakayama

2019/09 ArtStream Daimaru Shinsaibashi/Osaka

2019/09 KUDOYAMA ART WEEK Kudoyamacho/Wakayama

October 2019 Takeuchi Kaido Light Festival Taishi-cho, Osaka

2019/12 Candlelight for 1000000 people @OSAKACITY2019winter Nishi-Umeda/Osaka

2021/4 SUIKEI ART FAIR Nakanoshima Area/Osaka

October 2021 Shitamachi Art Festival Kobe Nagata-ku, Hyogo

2022/06 Art Stage OSAKA Dojima River Forum/Osaka

October 2022 Ikuwa Art Festival Awaji Ikuwa Town/Hyogo

November 2022 Gakuenmae Art Festival Nara City Gakuenmae/Nara

2025/06 ARTOSAKA Osaka City Central Public Hall/Osaka

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◇Installation

WPU Shinjuku/Tokyo

MEDIASHOP Nakagyoku/Kyoto

New Tokyo Building Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

SIX SENSES KYOTO Higashiyama/Kyoto

OSAKA STATION HOTEL Kita-ku/Osaka

Intercontinental Sapporo Chuo/Hokkaido

STANDS Shitennoji Yuhigaoka Tennoji-ku/Osaka

Geo Tower Osaka 13 Juso/Osaka