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Shota Matsui Exhibition
Haku Kyoto
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Shota Matsui
Shota Matsui studied sculpture at university and has been reexamining the stones he loved collecting as a child. Matsui studied sculpture as a major during his college years and has been reexamining the stones he liked to collect as a child, which has led him to his current works. The stones he collects are chosen based on his overall sensory preference for size, weight, and color, as well as on chance encounters. He does not alter the stones themselves that he uses in his works, as his study of art and expression has reaffirmed for him the beauty of the shapes and colors of natural objects. He is also interested in flying and levitation, which many people have dreamed of at one time or another since childhood, and he creates his works with an awareness of "gravity. By supporting his preferred stones with contemporary materials such as acrylic, glass, and metal, he explores new ways of looking at familiar rocks and contemplates the existence of gravity.
This exhibition will feature new works from his signature series of works, including the semi-planar piece "F = mgrsinθ" and the three-dimensional "F = mg". Amid weight (gravity) and material constraints that all sculpture and three-dimensional artists must be aware of, he too pursues and expresses the balance between the stone and the support.
In his previous works, the stone has been supported and fixed, but this time he will also present a mobile work, his first attempt. The term "mobile" originated in 1931 when Marcel Duchamp, an American sculptor representing the 20th century, advised the artist Alexander Calder to use the French word for "movement" or "cause of movement" as the title of his work. It has also become a word that refers to sculptures and three-dimensional works that move. In Matsui's mobile works, stones slowly rotate in response to their surroundings. It looks as if the stones are floating in space or orbiting a celestial body.
Composed of a variety of minerals, rocks have existed in the past and still exist close to people through endless time, some since the birth of the earth, some created by magma solidifying on the earth, and some born from the effects of natural phenomena. The combination of stone, a natural material that is said to be mankind's first material and has been used for various things since time immemorial, and modern man-made materials can be said to be a creative activity only possible by humans. Starting from stone as a material, people have also found value in stone itself. While stone money on Yap Island was treated as currency, it also served to strengthen ties between people and communities through the exchange of stones. In addition, collecting and appreciating rare, beautiful, and strange - even monstrous - stones has become an art and culture, such as suiseki and bonseki.
In this exhibition, we will be able to see the beauty created by nature and the existence of "gravity," which we know but are unconscious of in our daily lives, through his way of looking at stones, which he expresses in his works by trial and error between the earth and the air.
This exhibition will feature new works from his signature series of works, including the semi-planar piece "F = mgrsinθ" and the three-dimensional "F = mg". Amid weight (gravity) and material constraints that all sculpture and three-dimensional artists must be aware of, he too pursues and expresses the balance between the stone and the support.
In his previous works, the stone has been supported and fixed, but this time he will also present a mobile work, his first attempt. The term "mobile" originated in 1931 when Marcel Duchamp, an American sculptor representing the 20th century, advised the artist Alexander Calder to use the French word for "movement" or "cause of movement" as the title of his work. It has also become a word that refers to sculptures and three-dimensional works that move. In Matsui's mobile works, stones slowly rotate in response to their surroundings. It looks as if the stones are floating in space or orbiting a celestial body.
Composed of a variety of minerals, rocks have existed in the past and still exist close to people through endless time, some since the birth of the earth, some created by magma solidifying on the earth, and some born from the effects of natural phenomena. The combination of stone, a natural material that is said to be mankind's first material and has been used for various things since time immemorial, and modern man-made materials can be said to be a creative activity only possible by humans. Starting from stone as a material, people have also found value in stone itself. While stone money on Yap Island was treated as currency, it also served to strengthen ties between people and communities through the exchange of stones. In addition, collecting and appreciating rare, beautiful, and strange - even monstrous - stones has become an art and culture, such as suiseki and bonseki.
In this exhibition, we will be able to see the beauty created by nature and the existence of "gravity," which we know but are unconscious of in our daily lives, through his way of looking at stones, which he expresses in his works by trial and error between the earth and the air.
Schedule | Nov 11 (Fri) 2022-Nov 28 (Mon) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Haku Kyoto https://www.haku-kyoto.com/  | ||||
| Location | 566 Nakanocho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 600-8032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 10 at Kyoto-kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu line, 10 minute walk from exit 3 at Gion-shijo Station on the Keihan line, 10 minute walk from exit 19 at Shijo Station on the Karasuma subway line. | ||||
| Phone | 075-585-5959 | ||||
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