"anotehr side" Hitomi Teshima January 2016th to January XNUMXth, XNUMX
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: January 2016-1, 7
Exhibitor: Hitomi Teshima (2nd year, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences)
This exhibition will feature paintings created at the graduate school of the University of Tsukuba.
T+review
It is a work with the feel of a mental landscape. It depicts various things such as buildings with unusual shapes, fruits and vegetables, but it seems somewhat lonely, probably because there is no one around. If you look closely, you will see that it is filled with man-made objects such as clocks, crosswalks, steam locomotives, signs, cars, shoes, factories, and even a circus tent and a Ferris wheel, but since there is not a single soul in the world, the sizes of each motif are all out of sync, creating a surrealist world.
What the two works have in common is that they have a very flat composition. I think this flat expression is a major feature of the works. Rather than the motifs being arranged in a large space, one at a time, one at a time, from front to back, it is as if the drawings on paper were placed one by one on top of each other on a flat board. The ground area seems to have some perspective, but the space is intentionally lost due to something like a poster drawn next to it. It is also a bit like an optical illusion.
What also catches the eye in both works are the foreign language texts written in gold paint and the ivy that looks like a decorative pattern on a picture frame. The texts are written in small raised paint in various places on the screen, such as "The early bird caches a worm," "The trees fruited early this year," and "There will always be a tide, a moon, a sun, the stars, a season." If you translate each of them, it seems to be something like "Early to bed, early to sting," "This year, the trees fruited early," and "There are always tides, moons, suns, stars, and seasons," but it is not clear how these words relate to the works. Regarding the two sentences, "Early to bed..." and "This year, the trees are early...," I thought, "Maybe these sentences were used to mean that they were the first exhibits in the gallery after the new year," but I may be overthinking it. (Ichikawa Taiya)
