Mitsunori Kurashige　倉重光則

UNDERGROUND

10/13-11/10/2012

 

 

展覧会概要　*English Below

 

この度、KOKI ARTSでは、倉重光則「UNDERGROUND」展を開催致します。本展では、倉重の平面の新作を展示致します。 

 

倉重は、正方形そして枠にこだわって、長年制作に取り組んできました。また、今回も登場する蛍光灯は、1970年以来、倉重の作品で欠かせない存在であり、学生時代に、たまたま新聞紙の上に置いた蛍光灯の光が、文字を白くかき消してしまうのを発見し、視覚のための光ではなく、光そのものに目を向けるようになりました。 

 

今回のUNDERGROUNDは、地下に隠れて見えないという意味であり、倉重は地下のことを「眼は必要としない感覚の世界」と表現しています。これまで内と外の存在を示してきましたが、垂直や水平線、また目に見えないものの空間を改めて意識させられる展覧会となっています。 

 

 

KOKI ARTS is proud to host Mitsunori Kurashige's solo exhibition, "UNDERGROUND". "UNDERGROUND" will showcase Kurashige's new 2D works.

 

Throughout his career, Kurashige has been careful in the usage of "squares" and "frames" in his works. Fluorescent lights have also been an important part of his works since 1970. When Kurashige was still an art student, he was placing lights on sheets of newspaper spread on the floor in an attempt to light one of his paintings a different way. The unintentional result was that the light, which is of course essential in making something visible, was too bright and made it impossible to read the newspaper. Ever since this incident, he has been focusing on light, not as a tool for seeing, but light itself.

 

UNDERGROUND means "something hidden beneath the ground, not visible". Kurashige refers to UNDERGROUND as "a world of senses where eyes are not needed". He has been depicting the "inner " and "outer" existences in his works, but In "UNDERGROUND", the viewer is also reminded of perpendicular lines, the horizon, and the space of the invisible.