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[Image: Norimichi Hirakawa “Alice” from the “Portraits” series (2015) ballpoint pen on PET film, 90 x 90 cm, ©Norimichi Hirakawa]

Norimichi Hirakawa “Given”

Yutaka Kikutake Gallery

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Artists

Norimichi Hirakawa

The exhibition will feature five works consisting of a precise accumulation of lines conveyed on film, drawn using a large drafting pen and based on algorithms created by the artist. It will also introduce a new silkscreen work inspired by the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field. As the very motif of his works, Hirakawa in recent years has appropriated irreversible phenomena, created through computer programs that are based on a single rule (algorithm) designed by himself. Although each phenomenon can be defined through several finite figures (parameters) that serve to determine its characteristics, it is by no means an overstatement that its variations are essentially infinite in comparison to the amount of visual information processed within an individual’s lifetime. This is similar to the fact that no same person exists in the world, despite the finite amount of information present within human DNA. Hirawaka thus decided to give name to one of such computational outcomes that emerged as a consequence of calculations based on specific figures implemented through his own written program. In the exhibition, such outcomes are not presented as two-dimensional images, but instead are recorded to embody a more subtle expression in the form of an accumulation of delicate strokes. Furthermore, the exhibition will simultaneously present a work conveying a galaxy (conceived as a result of stretching optical light in correspondence to the expansion of the universe) captured via infrared, and materialized through a silkscreen technique using ultraviolet.

Schedule

Oct 17 (Sat) 2015-Nov 21 (Sat) 2015