"Engiru" Masahiko Heijima, Masakazu Koyama June 2012, 6 - June 18, 2012
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: December 2012, 6 - January 18, 2012
Exhibitor: Masahiko Nushijima (3rd year, Western painting major)
Masakazu Koyama (3rd year, Western Painting major)
This is an exhibition of two-dimensional works with the theme of creating other people's works.
T+review
Engage = To act in a way that gives a certain impression to the viewer in a certain scene or situation.
The exhibition style of this work was a little unusual, in that each artist created a work based on the other artist's sketches or drawings. In the exhibition room, a "rough sketch" drawn on paper was displayed next to a "finished work" drawn on canvas by another artist based on the original.
What first caught my eye were a pair of works hanging on the far wall. They radiate a strange atmosphere that seemed to spill out of the gallery, waiting for the "humans". I approached cautiously, as if drawn in, and found a creepy creature wearing cute pants that were out of place with its appearance, along with the original sketch by Mr. Nusajima. The creature, whose body was emaciated from the neck down and whose head was a mass of what was probably brain and muscle tissue with something like an elephant's trunk growing out of it, was stomping around on a pool of blood. At the sketch stage, only the head of the "finished work" was drawn, and perhaps influenced by the "finished work", it somehow gave the impression of a torn part of a living organism. But what was the image that was actually drawn, and was it actually intended to express "something" in the first place? The exhibitor's concept was to play around on the screen, leaving it up to the subject matter, motif, and message he wanted to convey to the other person, but it seemed that the "sketch" gave the concept to the "finished work," and that the "finished work" also left a clear impression of the "sketch."
"Engage" has another meaning. It is to "play a certain role." To "engage" means to play a role in clearly presenting in a clear form the incomplete image that another person wants to convey. The exhibitors are both majoring in Western painting, but their styles and ways of looking at things are completely different. The works that these two artists "engaged" with each other must have left an unexpected impression not only on the viewers, but also on the artists themselves. (Misato Kikuchi)
