"Daigo Takenaka Solo Exhibition 'All I see'" Daigo Takenaka May 2015th - May 5nd, 18
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2015, 5 (Monday) - April 18, 2015 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Daigo Takenaka (Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, Department of Art, Sculpture Area)
Master's degree (2nd year)
This is an exhibition of sculptures that I created mainly last year.
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There are many sculptures that strictly capture the contours and mass of things, but when I see these works, I often feel a high level of spirituality in the works themselves, or I get the impression that they are "noble beings that are fundamentally different from us humans." I can't help but feel a sense of awe at these beautiful and unreachable beings.
In contrast, the work on display this time, "All I See," was impressive for its soft carvings and colors, which seemed to express the atmosphere surrounding people. It looked soft and fluffy, but it had a solid mass. Just like a human being. Even before entering the gallery, I was unconsciously wary of "his" gaze, but I felt a little relieved and began to observe.
However, the moderately deformed humans have a sense of strangeness that we living humans do not have, and as I stare at them, I begin to feel uneasy. I was drawn in by his familiar atmosphere and forgot, but I realized that he was also "a being that is fundamentally different from us humans." The moment I realized this, he seemed something very frightening. He looked like us humans, but he was a mysterious being. Like a praying mantis that mimics a flower, he might be licking his lips, waiting for us to feel familiar and come close. As I let such wild imaginations run wild, he just stared at me with quiet eyes.
Objects transmit all sorts of information simply by existing, and humans try to find meaning and empathy in them. Because they do not speak, words spoken to them never come back. If they did come back, it would be in the form of our own words projected onto the object. When we try to force other things into the category of our own understanding, we end up with self-projection. If we are afraid of their gaze, it must mean that somewhere within us there is a guilty part that deserves to be punished. Indeed, he knows all. After all, he is myself. (Yamazaki Reika)
