刈谷は作品を「田んぼ」と形容しているが、私の想像するに、作品が並べられた展示風景は、むしろ、無限の時空を内包する、事象の「海」のような外観を呈するのではなかろうか。その海の表面に、個々の事象＝豆粒が浮かび上がるように現前する。
"Now" is like the crest of a wave, risen up from the infinite surface of the sea of space-time. It seems to happen quite often to us when we are children: we run into a complex philosophical problem, and fall into deep thought about it. In my case, once when I was thinking about some manga is something where, in general, as a prerequisite, the subjective viewpoint of individual humans is overcome: it is something depicted from a transcendental place, and all that this appearing person, this "I", can do is perform a part ! I will never become anyone apart from myself, and I can only view this world through my own eyes!" This was a great and sudden shock to me. It was the beginning of the indi
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to present KARIYA Hiroshi's solo exhibition "It Is All About the One Piece, and Millions of Others", from Saturday 13th January 2018. Born in 1948, Kariya moved to the United States in 1977 and has been based in New York ever since. Throughout the 1980s and 90s Kariya became renowned for his prolific practice both in Japan and overseas, including his participation in a group exhibition at MoMA PS1, his solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, and his participation in the four-artist show "Open System" at Art Tower Mito, Japan, together with CAI Guo Qiang, TAHO Ritsuko and YANAGI Yukinori. However, since the year 2000 he
