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Daisuke Takahashi "Ashan" by Anomaly
CADAN Yurakucho
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Daisuke Takahashi
Daisuke Takahashi was born in Saitama Prefecture in 1980, graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2005 with a BFA in painting, and currently lives and works in Saitama Prefecture. Takahashi's consistent exploration of expression in "painting" has been widely acclaimed, with participation in exhibitions at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, and the Ota City Museum of Art, among others.
For many years, Takahashi has been creating so-called "thick paintings," in which the paint is applied directly from the tube to the canvas. In these works, the paintings are not only a world of illusion in two dimensions, but also a reality of "things" existing in three-dimensional space, with the support and the paint as the materials. In this sense, there is tension between the viewers and Takahashi's works. Takahashi's paintings exist as an intermediary between the world of illusion and the world of reality.
In this solo exhibition, "Ashan," Takahashi presents a series of paintings that are very different from his previous works. Simply put, this series shifts the phase of Takahashi's work from "objects" to "the world of images.
The name "Ashan" is the name of a foreign staff member who worked at a neighborhood convenience store that Takahashi occasionally visited. Takahashi liked Ashan, who worked efficiently and provided pleasant customer service, but suddenly realized that he knew nothing about him. At the same time, the presence of Ashan at that moment triggered a new creative activity for Takahashi. Through the creation of "Ashan," Takahashi moves back and forth between the actual person of Ashan and the image of Ashan that he has formed because he knows nothing about him. This is a creation with a stronger spirituality than has been seen in Takahashi's more immediate work to date.
The colors used in the "Ashan" series are very limited and are basically all blue. The reason for this is quite simple: Ashan is a clerk at a certain convenience store and wears a blue-and-white striped uniform, and the image that came to mind when he met Takahashi in this faraway land, beyond the sky and the sea, made him choose this color.
In the same series, Takahashi no longer applies the thick layers of paint that he has done repeatedly in the past. Instead, his work is the result of the repetitive act of placing the brush on the canvas and stretching and drawing the lines. The work is almost musical. The repetition of sound creates a highly abstract and spiritual work, but Takahashi's work is like a piece of music with no chorus and no end.
It would be impossible for him to understand Ashan by drawing him. But that is why this body of work is so fascinating. Instead of getting to the core (is there such a thing as a core in the first place?), the "Ashan" series, which is created by tracing the periphery, as if the central axis and arbitrary vanishing point by the artist have disappeared from the screen as well, gives the viewer room only to watch and think, and permits a pleasant viewing experience.
For many years, Takahashi has been creating so-called "thick paintings," in which the paint is applied directly from the tube to the canvas. In these works, the paintings are not only a world of illusion in two dimensions, but also a reality of "things" existing in three-dimensional space, with the support and the paint as the materials. In this sense, there is tension between the viewers and Takahashi's works. Takahashi's paintings exist as an intermediary between the world of illusion and the world of reality.
In this solo exhibition, "Ashan," Takahashi presents a series of paintings that are very different from his previous works. Simply put, this series shifts the phase of Takahashi's work from "objects" to "the world of images.
The name "Ashan" is the name of a foreign staff member who worked at a neighborhood convenience store that Takahashi occasionally visited. Takahashi liked Ashan, who worked efficiently and provided pleasant customer service, but suddenly realized that he knew nothing about him. At the same time, the presence of Ashan at that moment triggered a new creative activity for Takahashi. Through the creation of "Ashan," Takahashi moves back and forth between the actual person of Ashan and the image of Ashan that he has formed because he knows nothing about him. This is a creation with a stronger spirituality than has been seen in Takahashi's more immediate work to date.
The colors used in the "Ashan" series are very limited and are basically all blue. The reason for this is quite simple: Ashan is a clerk at a certain convenience store and wears a blue-and-white striped uniform, and the image that came to mind when he met Takahashi in this faraway land, beyond the sky and the sea, made him choose this color.
In the same series, Takahashi no longer applies the thick layers of paint that he has done repeatedly in the past. Instead, his work is the result of the repetitive act of placing the brush on the canvas and stretching and drawing the lines. The work is almost musical. The repetition of sound creates a highly abstract and spiritual work, but Takahashi's work is like a piece of music with no chorus and no end.
It would be impossible for him to understand Ashan by drawing him. But that is why this body of work is so fascinating. Instead of getting to the core (is there such a thing as a core in the first place?), the "Ashan" series, which is created by tracing the periphery, as if the central axis and arbitrary vanishing point by the artist have disappeared from the screen as well, gives the viewer room only to watch and think, and permits a pleasant viewing experience.
Schedule | Aug 8 (Tue) 2023-Aug 27 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://cadan.org/cadanyurakucho_anomaly02/ | ||||
| Venue | CADAN Yurakucho https://cadan.org/en/ | ||||
| Location | 1F Kokusai Bldg., 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from exit B3 at Hibiya Station on the Chiyoda and Hibiya lines or Toei Mita line, Direct walk from exit D1 at Yurakucho Station on the Fukutoshin line, 5 minute walk from the Hibiya exit of Yurakucho Station on the JR Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines. | ||||
| Phone | 070-6464-1438 | ||||
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