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SUMO Prague 2022＝「CO-EXIST」
ー MONOCHROM ー
ATSUO HUKUDA
SHUHEI FUKUDA
福田篤夫
福田周平
会期 2022年9月2日(金) ～ 11月24日(木)
会場 Kvalitář Senovážné nám.17 Praha 1,110 00 www.kvalitar.cz +420 603 919061
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チェコ共和国の首都プラハに於いて、「SUMO Prague 2022」が開催されます。
「SUMO Prague 2022」は、プラハのギャラリスト、アーティスト、キュレーター、コレクター、アートジャーナリストが一堂に会する国際的なギャラリー協同プログラムです。
「CO-EXIST」と題された第3回目の開催は、9月1日から4日までが初日で、2022年10月15日まで行われる予定です。今年のテーマ「CO-EXIST」は、最近の出来事を踏まえて、コミュニケーション、交流、連帯の必要性がますます高まっていることを強調しています。
参加ギャラリーは、国際的なパートナーや地元の施設と協力して、展覧会、パフォーマンス、レクチャーなどのイベントを開催しています。SUMOの目的は、芸術的なネットワークを広げると同時に、現代美術をより多くの人々に知ってもらうことです。SUMOは日本の相撲がコンセプトの軸になっており、チェコと日本の友好１５０周年を記念して開催され続けられています。相撲＝レスリングが日本のスポーツ文化の意味のみならず、欧州の中では特異なエキゾチズムと、日本人論を文化人類学の視点からみたユニークなアートイベントとして顧みられています。
”Kvalitář”（カヴァリタージュ） は、プラハの中心に位置する コンテンポラリーアート、プロダクトデザインを手掛ける新進気鋭のコマーシャルギャラリーです。福田篤夫と福田周平は、２０１８年に最初の展覧会がKvalitář で開催されました。日本の伝統的な絵画材料や技法を用いながら最先端のアートに機能させた新しいアートを提示し高く評価されています。今回４年ぶりの開催になる展示では、「SUMO Prague 2022」で唯一の日本人アーティストとして招聘され、”MONOCHROM”のテーマのもとにインストールされます。
福田篤夫は、白蛇、黒蛇の皮を縫製したモザイク状の色面の支持体に、バニスや金箔を施した新しく製作した平面作品を中心に、彫刻的な物性感や作品の普遍性について様々な実験を試みます。
福田周平は、日本の伝統的な絵画素材である銀箔と和紙、朱、ラピスラズリ、墨を使用し、様々な自然環境と素材のもつ特性から化学反応を引き起こし、時間の経過とともに銀箔が経年変化する作品を制作しています。日本のナショナリズムと世界のインータナショナリズムに一石を投じる試みを継続しています。
尚、福田周平は「SUMO Prague 2022」の展示と並行し、ベルギー／ブリュッセルで２０２２年１０月に開催される「アートフェア／ブリュッセル２０２２」に於いて、アメリカ、イギリスの若手アーティストと一緒に参加いたします。
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Kvalitář
SUMO Prague is an international gallery cooperative program which brings together gallerists, artists, curators, collectors and art journalists in Prague. The third edition subtitled CO-EXIST will have its opening days from September 1 to 4 and run through October 15, 2022. This year’s theme, CO-EXIST, underlines an ever increasing need for communication, exchange and solidarity in light of recent events.
The participating galleries present exhibitions, performances, lectures and other events in cooperation with international partners as well as local institutions. SUMO’s aim is to expand our artistic networks as well as to bring a wider public to contemporary art.
SUMO opening days will be Thursday, September 1 through Saturday, September 3, 2022.
展覧会詳細
展覧会：SUMO Prague 2022＝「CO-EXIST」
福田篤夫 ATSUO HUKUDA
福田周平 SHUHEI FUKUDA
会期： 2022年9月2日(金) ～10月15日(土)（ギャラリー展示：2.9 - 24.11. 2022）
SUMOのオープニングデーは、2022年9月1日(木)〜3日(土)です。
会場： Kvalitář Senovážné nám.17 Praha 1,110 00 www.kvalitar.cz +420 603 919061
キュレーター
テキスト：ミハル・スコダ
ATSUO HUKUDA, SHUHEI FUKUDA: MONOCHROME
KVALITÁŘ GALLERY, PRAGUE
Curator: Michal Škoda
We are honored to welcome Japanese artists Atsuo Hukuda and Shuhei Fukuda back to the Kvalitář gallery. In 2018, they presented their project RYUHA here, now the artists return with an exhibition for which they chose the title MONOCHROME.
The exhibition title references a tradition of Japanese art and history that the artists then link with the language of contemporary art. They deal with their chosen theme of monochrome through personal experiences. As a result, even though the exhibited works are not characterized by narrative signs, they are deeply communicative.
Atsuo Hukuda (1958) is influenced by the art of the 60s and 70s, especially minimalist and conceptualist tendencies. Over the past decade, his work has been centered around attempting to connect Eastern traditions with aspects of contemporary Western art. For this search the artist seeks out old materials long left aside of the main trends - for instance gold and silver leafs, or the Japanese uruši varnish - to act as medium in his investigation of the identity of Japanese art.
The artworks he brought to Prague have been considerably challenging to produce, its basis uses snake skin (black and white). The manufacturing of snake skin is labor-intensive. First, it is cut into 3x3 cm squares, subsequently it is reinforced with fabric and put together into large formats. In some cases, Hukudu combines the snake skin with gold leafs, other times he uses wax to highlight the structure of the skin itself. The artist has chosen this now precious material because it connects to traditions of the Tumulus (Kofun) era when the snake was one of the votive offerings that were part of burials rites.
“Zhu”, meaning “vermillion”, is the title of another of Hukuda’s exhibited art works. It is characterized by red (vermillion) color and also references traditions of the Kofun era. Red pigment was often applied in the corners of barrow burials, sometimes the whole inside of the barrows were painted with it, because it served to conserve amulets and prevent evil. The artist employed this color in six varnish paintings for which he used the pigment from Okinawa corals. A unique color is made from these corals that is impossible to reproduce artificially.
Kofun is the name of the era of Japanese history that spans from 250 to 538 AD, it is typically considered a part of a larger period known as Jamato. The name “Kofun” comes from the word used for megalithic tombs and barrows built at that time. They varied in shape and size depending on who was buried in them. Less important citizens had kofuns with square or circular foundations. Members of the royal family were buried mostly in kofuns built on an unusual floor plan resembling a keyhole, sometimes surrounded by one or several moats.
Shuhei Fukuda’s (1997) work is also inspired by traditional Japanese art, specifically painting. He is interested in the relationship between changeability of mass and one’s inner world as it relates to the process of aging.
To the Kvalitář gallery, the artist brought artworks from a series that he has been creating for the past two years. The basis of the pieces consists of silver foil that has undergone a chemical reaction, the character of its subsequent development depends on its reaction with the air. Our focus is directed here to natural phenomena that are the building blocks of life. Through the use of traditional techniques and materials the artist examines his own approach to the world.
In his artistic practice, Fukuda uses Japanese paper and silver leaf as the foundations of monochromatic planes that are subject to the physical and climatic conditions of a concrete geographical location. He uses this process to analyze the ways that time, together with the surrounding environment, influence the changes of his pieces, both their physical and visual form. The aesthetic transformation is constructed as a result of the interplay between landscape, environment, and the material itself (in this case silver leaf).
“Every artwork is a reminder of what I have experienced and felt in nature during its creative process,” says the artist. “I want to emphasize that in the same way that nature and landscape reveal themselves slowly, paintings uncover their entirety gradually as well. My sense and my memory serve as mental tools that allow me to note and save moments, and to construct temporarity from the total of all our experiences. Without being bound by religion or faith I’m trying to express the surprise, affect, love, and melancholy that are brought about by the impermanence of life. These are purely human emotions that transcend superficiality and are aware of temporariness.”
The passing of time is a very important aspect of Fukuda’s work. To understand the effects that this passage has on his artworks, the artist studies the changes of physical processes of the materials: How the processes affect the piece’s final form and how they are influenced by the place in which the work is created.
The MONOCHROME exhibition is an intimate insight into contemporary Japanese art. The visitors can experience pieces that are not subject to modern trends, to encounter artworks by a father and his son, artists that have the ability to intervene in their given spaces with such sensitivity as to create an environment filled with silence, beauty, and peace.
