"Children's hour" Misako Tago April 2014, 4 - April 7, 2014
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2014, 4 (Monday) - April 7, 2014 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Misako Tago (3rd year, Department of Integrated Design, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba)
The exhibition will feature two types of footage: one that shows pictures together with time, and another that shows pictures together with conversation.
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A video was playing on the wall at the front of the gallery, where chairs were lined up in the center. It was an ordinary park scene. However, the "children" riding on the swings in the center of the video were not real "children" but "children" painted by the exhibitor. If you look at the wall to the left, you will see the "children" riding on the swings hanging on the wall.
"I am interested in how paintings are influenced by the outside world, and how the environment changes when a painting is there."
These are the words of the exhibitor that were posted at the entrance. A painting is not just something that is drawn and becomes a work of art on its own. The fact that a work of art changes greatly depending on the environment in which it is exhibited is something that everyone involved in exhibiting art should think about at least once.
The reason I found myself thinking this was because of a certain video work. The video projected onto the wall in front of me showed the children swinging on a familiar piece of playground equipment, a swing, which I found unnatural. This is because they exude an eerie silence in a park that is normally filled with smiles and shouts. But what about them confined to the walls of a gallery? In stark contrast to their previous appearances, placed in a quiet space, they gaze at me without any sense of incongruity. One could say that this exhibition offered a glimpse into the intentions of the exhibitors as they have engaged with the very foundation of exhibiting artworks - the way they "appear." (Ota Natsuki)
