Toshiaki Hicosaka 彦坂敏昭
Hicosaka was born in Aichi in 1983, graduated from the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Information Design. The selected exhibition includes "MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, "Shiseido art egg 2 Toshiaki Hicosaka", Shiseido Gallery in 2008, "ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka", OHARA Museum of Art in 2009, "No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me ́tamorphose du Lieu" The Embassy in France and Rule-Rale-Rele" AISHO MIURA ARTS in 2010, "TRANS COMPLEX - The painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center in 2011 and the most recent exhibition is "New Phases in Contemporary Painting" Hyogo prefectural museum of art in 2012. Hicosaka attended The Pola Art Foundation Fellowships and overseas England and Iceland. He also enthusiastically participated artists oriented exhibitions, "egØ - Re-examining the Self" at punto, 2014, and “yabu no naka” Kyoto University Arts & Design, 2015.
Hicosaka considers the relationship between human and images through workshops, video, photography and paintings, and in his perspectives he tries to find out what is the meaning of communication in paintings and its purpose. His behaviors in communication in paintings, which he rethink the Modernism theory that purely pursuit what was really paintings meant for and he experiments the relationship between human and images and it’ s materiality and blankness. Hicosaka works with many different materials, especially in paintings; he tries to give ideas to audience what can be touch and touched by pictures that meaning included in this exhibition title. Tracing picture images in “Vision” and “Touch” through his experimentation, emerging close to unlimited results, old masters created master pieces with physicality or world used to be much simpler and easier to see the future, thus his works will give the world much more controllable.
Recently, Hicosaka attended the NES Artist Residence in Iceland created the work called “Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves” . In this his newest work, Hicosaka had an idea from the story called “An anecdote of misunderstanding” written by a Japanese author Joseph Heco in end of Edo period. In part of the book described the castaway story written by an American sailor who just wrote many notes in cursive, which Joseph Heco misunderstood and thought they were beautiful sketches of waves.
Soon after Hicosaka read the book, Hicosaka felt that building images of touch/touched by gave him a hint to build the better relation through the world. He clearly visualized that difficulty of our communication and changing images as if the shape waves changes its form and everyday news. Yet, his work warns us that massive images sometime makes us blind, and like waves that comes back and forth, never repeats the same shapes, perhaps, Hicosaka sees the infinite possibilities in waves.
彦坂敏昭,1983 年生於日本愛知縣，2005 年於京都造形藝術大學資訊設計系畢業，2014 年獲得 Pola 藝術基金會資助到英國及冰島作海外研究生。曾參與展覽包括：《2008 東京都現代美術館年度展 - 揭示與啟示》（東京當代藝術博物館，2008）；《第 2 回 Shiseido art egg 彦坂敏昭》（資生堂畫廊，2008）；《AKO2009 彦坂敏昭個展》（大原美術館，2009）；《neoneo 展》（高橋收藏，2009）；《No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me ́tamorphose du Lieu》（前法國領事館，2010）；《Rule-Rale-Rele》（AISHO MIURA ARTS，2010）；《TRANS COMPLEX ‒ 資訊科技時代之繪畫》（京都藝術中心，2011）；《New Phases in Contemporary Art》（兵庫縣美術館，2012）。他亦積極參與聯展包括《egØ - Re-examining the Self》（Punto，2014）和《yabu no naka》（京都造型藝術大學，2015）。
彥坂透過研討會、錄像、攝影和繪畫探討人與圖像之關係，嘗試從中尋找以繪畫語言溝通的意義和目的，為此他反思著現代主義理論純粹地追求繪畫真正意義的目的，同時進行關於人與圖像的關係之具體性與虛無性的實驗。尤其在繪畫上，他的作品運用許多不同的物料，讓觀者聯想畫面上可觸碰或已被觸碰的部分。鑑於過往藝術大師均運用了身體的觸感創作，或以更簡易的方式所詮釋未來世界，彥坂從圖像的「視覺」和「觸覺」進行的創作實驗，得出了近乎無數結果，亦展現出更易駕馭的世界。
近期彥坂參與的 NES 藝術家進駐冰島計劃中，創作了名為《Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves》的作品，靈感是來自日本作家浜田彦蔵於幕末時期所著的《漂流記》一書中的《一個誤會的故事》，當中講述一個美軍在船上漂流時，他在筆記上所寫的草書被作者誤以為是對海浪的速寫。彥坂察覺建構可觸碰或已被觸碰的圖像是在世上建立更緊密關係的提示，於是他把圖像溝通的困難清晰地視像化，並因應海浪每天的形狀而改變圖像。作品告誡著觀者觀看大量的影像時容易變得盲目，而彥坂眼中看見的是無限變化的可能性，像海浪般不斷來回，卻不曾重複相同形狀。
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