A piece of memory edited in a blanket
A while ago, now,TOKYO HIPSTERS CLUBIn being heldArakimidori's exhibitionI went to the reception party. Mr. Araki majoring in graphic design at the university, after working through the editing of magazines, is an artist who is making artworks that mainly jumps over the boundary between design and art as an artist,Interview with "BUNKA × PERSON"I was looking forward to this exhibition because I was very interesting.
Araki's Home PageAs you can see, Mr. Araki has been producing works using various media such as photographs, images, drawings, words, stereoscopes, installations, furniture, sweets (food), miscellaneous goods . The first thing I learned about Araki's name was a work of "pot" shaped like a watering post that was published in "Gardening Lifestyle Magazine" called "PLANTED". Plants are stretching out from the holes and small windows opened in the strange objects that imagine Gaudi's buildings and the sun tower of Taro Okamoto, as if the plant invaded into the bowl without permission I also seemed to be integrated.
This exhibition entitled "Recollections in the blanket" is composed of past works of Araki, but they are not just displayed as works of the past but in the same room I felt that they corroded the areas mutually by being caught and showed different aspects from the time when they were announced. For example, when the picture of "JUNK SWEETS" with no context at first glance and the drawing of the words that spelled childhood experiences are displayed side by side on the same wall, somewhere has a connection at the bottom of memory, the root was the same And the unique shape of the shadow created by the light's light, I imagined the pattern of the ceiling that Araki sneaking into the blanket placed by my side would have been delusive when I was young , The matching between the scenery "flowing here" in the video work and the landscape "spreading out there" spreading outside of the picture creates visual discrepancy, strongly conscious of ambiguity and uncertainty of memory (Moreover, by further including the picture of the venue where the video work was exhibited, it became a meta-double gap and the time axis has become more ambiguous).
At the same time, as Mr. Araki himself analyzes as "it is not a type that deeply steps into one world", he does not fix the medium to express, selects appropriate expression means by the situation and sensibility at that time, and expresses that expressive desires somewhere From the appearance of subliming into the work, rather than receiving a shock in confrontation with the work expressing the inner darkness or nature of the author, I imagined the reason why the author chose that medium and what I wanted to express I felt the way of editorial creativity that seems to be convincing "I see" I see.
There is an impressive work of the editorial era, symbolizing Araki's thought that "it is not good to be categorized". A particular issue of a magazine that is located between the fashion magazine "gap" and the lifestyle magazine which Araki served as editor in chief was the theme "wearing architecture". In touch with the newness of "Sendai Mediatheque" of Ito Toyoe who was sensational at the time with content saying "I will rethink architecture from the context of fashion", introducing Pao (= gel) of Mongolian mobile residence like clothes, Posted a sentence written with Shinichi Takemura's "unique clothing / clothing clothing" from the perspective of "Clothing clothes / clothing clothing" and engaged in clothes making from the concept of "When you lose your house, it is clothes to protect yourself at the end"Kosuke Tsumura of "FINAL HOME"It was a very readable thing to feature works of. For that person who was a college student at that time, that issue has stepped into the instinctive human life style vividly back and forth between the border without being bound by both the framework of architecture and fashion, and vaguely in relation to publishing work I thought that I wanted to make a magazine about my ideal magazine I imagined. (I am deeply impressed if you posted something like that already made in sweets in that issue and it was gently connected to "JUNK SWEETS".)
Editing is also a task of "choosing" something out of a lot of information and presenting it along some ideas to give and strengthen new contexts and meanings. In this exhibition, Mr. Araki himself selected "Arki-san" from the past work group of the past, and presents new values based on the title "Recollections in the blanket" I felt like an exhibit prepared in an "editorial" manner in that sense as well. Rather than being a solo exhibition that individually appreciates individual pieces one by one, this room together is the big one installation work titled "Recollections in the blanket", like a piece of memory Paintings and sweet pictures and words line up on the walls, birds and ghost shadows are cast on the ceiling, hiding themselves in the blanket so that they cling to the chair Flash memories place in front of the author's eyes That room reflected in the back was like an absurd landscape drawn on paintings of surrealist, it was like a scene of Araki's dream.
Both the memories in the blanket (meditation) and the exhibition that can be read in the nuance "re-collected in the blanket" is a part of the sense of "wrapped in a blanket" that covers the small memory of Mr. Araki It was a very pleasant exhibition with a "fairy tale" smell somewhere, which seems to be worthwhile interpretation when reading the interview again, with content that makes it feel adequate. Since the exhibition is until the 27th, we recommend you to watch it together with the interview when you view it.
(All the pictures are the scenery of the venue of "Recollections in the blanket" exhibition)
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