西川茂≪Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-≫oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2020年
今回発表するメイン作品「Sealed House -New National Stadium-」は、 先に記した白紙に戻されたザハ・ハディドによる想像上の新国立競技場のデザインを背景に、新たに建設され今後日本の一つのアイコンになるであろう現実の新国立競技場の建設途上を描いたものである。 それを描こうとしたのは、まさにこの現実と想像上の二つの国立競技場の姿が、 新たに生まれ(亡くなり)記憶に刻まれ(忘却され)る我々の存在そのものの象徴となることに気づいたからである。 二つの国立競技場は、私がこの5、6年続けてきたシリーズの中心のコンセプトに最もふさわしいモチーフであることを、 そして自身の画家としてのアイデンティティに、深く突き刺さるモチーフであることを、今更ながらに確信している。
西川茂(Shigeru Nishikawa)
西川茂≪Sealed House 130 -new town-≫oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2020年
Sealed House 130-new town-は群像図が形になった作品で、近所の宅地開発現場を描いた作品です。
西川茂≪Sealed House 118≫ 1620×1120mm oil, graphite on canvas, panel 2020年≪Sealed House 118≫ ※Detail展示風景左;西川茂 ≪Sealed Statue- the Statue of Liberty Tokyo≫ 2020年 右:西川茂 ≪Sealed Gate 宮島≫ 2020年西川茂≪Sealed House 109≫2020年≪Sealed House 109≫ ※Detail展示風景西川茂≪Sealed House 107≫2020年展示風景西川茂≪Sealed House 106≫2020年
ギャラリーGallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO」では、バックヤードにも展示がある場合が多くあります。本展でも何作品か拝見することが出来ました。
バックヤードに展示された作品西川茂≪Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-≫oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2019年
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
We visited Shigeru Nishikawa’s solo exhibition “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo.” The venue is Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO.
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
We visited on May 8, 2020, the opening day. The solo exhibition was held under the “state of emergency” declared in response to the novel coronavirus.
This is Nishikawa’s first solo exhibition at Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO in about two years. For a look at the previous one, please refer to the article below.
Installation view
Shigeru Nishikawa’s ≪Sealed House≫ series presents oil paintings that depict, in a distinctive touch and palette, buildings covered by construction sheets — glimpsed around town in the midst of construction or demolition — as motifs, taking the “destruction and rebirth” of the urban landscape as their theme.
Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-≫ oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel, 2020
The main work presented this time, “Sealed House -New National Stadium-,” depicts, against a background of the scrapped, imaginary design for the New National Stadium by Zaha Hadid noted above, the actual New National Stadium mid-construction — a real stadium that will surely become one of Japan’s icons going forward. What led me to depict this was the realization that these two figures of the National Stadium — the real and the imagined — become a symbol of our very existence: newly born (and dying), etched into memory (and forgotten). I am now more convinced than ever that these two National Stadiums are the motif most fitting to the central concept of the series I have pursued for the past five or six years, and are a motif that strikes deep into my identity as a painter.
Shigeru Nishikawa
Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 130 -new town-≫ oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel, 2020
Sealed House 130 -new town- is a work that took shape as a group scene, depicting a residential development site in my neighborhood.
Walking around, I photograph buildings covered in construction and demolition sheets. Even on paths I know well, I sometimes gasp when a vacant lot suddenly appears.
I have passed by so often, and even though the lot is so large, I can no longer remember what was there before.
And soon it transforms into new housing, or into a large commercial store.
Even the fact that I forgot what once stood in that place is itself forgotten, and I come to feel at home there.
The memory of the new town, and the forgetting of the old.
So easily overwritten.
Shigeru Nishikawa
Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 118≫ 1620×1120mm oil, graphite on canvas, panel, 2020≪Sealed House 118≫ * DetailInstallation viewLeft: Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed Statue- the Statue of Liberty Tokyo≫ 2020 Right: Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed Gate Miyajima≫ 2020Shigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 109≫ 2020≪Sealed House 109≫ * DetailInstallation viewShigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 107≫ 2020Installation viewShigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 106≫ 2020
Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO often has works installed in its back space as well. In this exhibition, too, we were able to see several works there.
Works installed in the back spaceShigeru Nishikawa ≪Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-≫ oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel, 2019
Viewing Shigeru Nishikawa’s solo exhibition under the state of emergency declared for the novel coronavirus, the works in his ≪Sealed House≫ series struck me more deeply than ever.
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
我们前往参观了 Shigeru Nishikawa 的个展”under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”。展场为 Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO。
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
我们在开幕首日2020年5月8日前往观展。这是一场在新型冠状病毒”紧急事态宣言”下举办的个展。
在 Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO 举办的个展距上次已约两年之久。上次展览详情请参阅以下链接。
Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed House 118》 1620×1120mm oil, graphite on canvas, panel 2020年《Sealed House 118》※Detail展览景象左:Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed Statue- the Statue of Liberty Tokyo》2020年 右:Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed Gate 宫岛》2020年Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed House 109》2020年《Sealed House 109》※Detail展览景象Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed House 107》2020年展览景象Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed House 106》2020年
在 Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO,后场(back yard)也常有作品展示。本次展览中也得以看到数件作品。
展示于后场的作品Shigeru Nishikawa《Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-》oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2019年
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
Shigeru Nishikawa의 개인전 “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”에 다녀왔습니다. 회장은 Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO입니다.
Shigeru Nishikawa “under construction or destruction 2020 Tokyo”
개막 첫날인 2020년 5월 8일에 방문했습니다. 신종 코로나바이러스에 의한 “긴급사태선언” 속에 개최된 개인전이었습니다.
Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO에서의 개인전은 약 2년 만의 개최입니다. 지난번 전시 모습은 아래에서 확인해 주세요.
전시 풍경
Shigeru Nishikawa가 그리는 《Sealed House》 시리즈는, 거리에서 볼 수 있는 양생 시트로 덮인 건설 중 혹은 해체 중인 건물을 모티브로, 도시 풍경의 “파괴와 재생”을 주제로 독특한 필치와 색채로 그린 유화 작품들을 소개하고 있습니다.
Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-》 oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2020년
이번에 발표하는 메인 작품 “Sealed House -New National Stadium-“은, 앞서 언급한 백지화된 Zaha Hadid에 의한 상상 속 신국립경기장의 디자인을 배경으로, 새로 건설되어 앞으로 일본의 한 아이콘이 될 현실의 신국립경기장의 건설 과정을 그린 것이다. 그것을 그리고자 한 것은, 바로 이 현실과 상상 속 두 국립경기장의 모습이, 새롭게 태어나고(사라지고) 기억에 각인되며(잊혀지는) 우리 존재 자체의 상징이 됨을 깨달았기 때문이다. 두 국립경기장이야말로 내가 지난 5, 6년간 지속해 온 시리즈의 중심 컨셉에 가장 부합하는 모티브이며, 그리고 화가로서의 나 자신의 정체성에 깊이 꽂히는 모티브임을, 이제 새삼 확신하고 있다.
Shigeru Nishikawa
Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 130 -new town-》 oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2020년
Sealed House 130-new town-은 군상도의 형태로 결실을 맺은 작품으로, 근처의 택지 개발 현장을 그린 작품입니다.
산책을 하며, 이러한 건설 중, 해체 중의 시트로 덮인 건물들을 사진에 담고 있지만, 익숙한 길이라 해도 갑작스레 나타나는 빈 땅에 흠칫할 때가 있다.
자주 지나다녔음에도, 그리고 이렇게 큰 빈 땅임에도, 이전에 무엇이 있었는지 기억나지 않는 것이다.
그리고 곧 새로운 주택지든, 대형 점포든의 모습으로 바뀌어 간다.
그렇게 예전 그곳을 잊어버렸다는 사실조차 잊어버리고, 그 장소에 익숙해져 간다.
새로운 거리의 기억이며, 예전 거리의 망각.
너무나 쉽게 갱신되어 버린다.
Shigeru Nishikawa
Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 118》 1620×1120mm oil, graphite on canvas, panel 2020년《Sealed House 118》※Detail전시 풍경왼쪽: Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed Statue- the Statue of Liberty Tokyo》 2020년 오른쪽: Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed Gate 미야지마》 2020년Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 109》 2020년《Sealed House 109》※Detail전시 풍경Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 107》 2020년전시 풍경Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 106》 2020년
Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO에서는 백야드에도 작품이 전시되어 있는 경우가 많습니다. 본 전시에서도 몇 점을 볼 수 있었습니다.
백야드에 전시된 작품Shigeru Nishikawa 《Sealed House 100 -New National Stadium-》 oil, graphite metal pouder on canvas, panel 2019년
신종 코로나바이러스에 의한 긴급사태선언 속에서 감상한 Shigeru Nishikawa의 개인전. 《Sealed House》 시리즈의 작품들은, 지금까지 이상으로 깊이 마음에 와닿는 감상 체험이 되었습니다.