Behind Closed Doors
Date: 1/6-1/29
Time: 09:00-Close
Picasso, Cy Twombly, Georgia O’Keeffe...
Do you wonder where their masterpieces were born?
When one thinks of an artist, one’s mind tends to visualize their most famous artwork. Miki Matsuyama, however, contemplates the space in which their creativity flourished. In the exhibition Behind Closed Door, an intimate look into the artists’ world is explored, which extends to more than their artworks. A space populated with their personalities, tools they used, furnitures they sat on, all of which Matsuyama believes to have subconsciously made imminent strides on the work they produced. Realizing the significant, yet overlooked, role one’s environment tends to play on our creative process, she sees furnitures as serving beyond their ordinary purpose. Questioning our common perspectives, Matsuyama wishes to decompose the creative process from birth to conception; furnitures are deconstructed into simpler objects, and these objects are turned into lines, and lines are turned into artworks. Through this process, the style and techniques of the artists are both challenged yet paid tribute to.
In collaboration with a vintage furniture/lighting shop, CONTOUR, selected furniture pieces will be showcased alongside the artworks. Classic furnitures such as Pierre Jeanneret’s chair, from the 1960’s, will be displayed. The name ‘CONTOUR’ originates from the wish to outline the co-dependency between furniture and lighting within a a space. Just like the meaning behind CONTOUR, the works depicting interior spaces and the furniture pieces will be curated in order to create a contour between object and art, as well as past and present.
扉の向こうは名画が生み出された空間。時空を越え作家の生家やスタジオを訪れてみませんか？
人々は著名な画家を連想する時、本人自身ではなくまず彼らの最も有名な名画を思い浮かべるでしょう。今回の展示会ではその名画そのものではなく、彼らがどのような空間で作品を創造させたかに焦点を当てています。作品を産み出す道具、本人が座る椅子や家具、個性溢れる空間こそれぞれの作品に重要な影響を及ぼしているのではないでしょうか？そうした見方から見過ごされている彼らの空間を認識してみてください。家具は私たちの共通の視点に疑問を投げかけ、創造のプロセスを誕生から構想までを表現しています。一つ一つの家具を単なる家具として捉えずオブジェクトとして見据え、これらのオブジェクトはラインになり、そのラインが作品を作り上げています。
ビンテージ家具と照明を取り扱う「CONTOUR」とのコラボレーションにより、複数のビンテージ家具も展示します。1960年代のPierre Jeanneretの椅子など、クラシックなデザインの家具もご覧頂けます。店名「CONTOUR」とは、“輪郭”という意味で、照明や家具が互いに呼応しあって、お部屋で際立って欲しいという意味です。今回の展示会ではそのような意味を通じてインテリアを描く作品とビンテージ家具を組み合わせオブジェクトとアート、そして過去と今の輪郭を表現します。是非ご来場の上お楽しみ下さい。
Contact: mikimatsuyama@icloud.com
Instagram: @mikidessine
