Artist Statement

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私は、多くの場合ある対象となる場の歴史、自然そして素材と私自身の関係から作ります。そしてその営みをサンプルとし、美術の在り方の一つの例を提示します。また、その制作行為から、私自身が対象を再認識し思考を深めると共に、その場所固有の、いまだ認識されていない美や、概念を見つけし、
提示することが美術の重要な役割であると考えます。
私は、歴史や自然と美術の制作活動を中心とした人の営みの関係について考察する為、これまで、主に日本の各地、特に地方の自然や、都市の歴史の中で制作してきました。その過程では、関係の糸口となる部分を探し、必然性のある素材や技法を見つけ、制作、思考する中で新たな価値を発見し、作品として提示してきました。また、私は作品の素材は歴史などを内包した、それ自体、一つの造形言語だと考えていることから、制作では伝統的な絵画材料の他、大福帳や対象となる場の土や草・ほこりなど、対象に由来する素材が多く使われます。また、技法は対象との心理的な距離感や、それが生み出す効果、あるいは技法が持つ背景を考慮し選択されます。そうして出来た作品は、対象となった場所の歴史や、自然との関係性を考慮した上で、多くの場合、平面作品( 絵画) あるいはそれらを含めたインスタレーションとして展示されることと思います。
私は美術家として、できうるかぎり対象に真摯に、誠実に向き合い、制作し、その中で何かを発見し、提示する者でありたいと考えています。

Artist Statement

I have an interest in the relation between the act of humans making objects (considering my own production activity of art, as an example), and the nature, history and culture of a place, and I have engaged in production in many places in the Tohoku, Kanto and other regions in Japan, particularly incorporating local nature, or the history of a city, and I have presented one way of portraying such relations and connections in my artworks. In the process of production, I first research and find subjects and raw materials, with which I can have a relationship. I consider that raw materials contain history and time, and they are one plastic language. For this reason, in my production, in addition to more conventional painting materials, such as oil paints, chalk ground, washi (Japanese paper) , or glue, I also freely use old washi (Japanese paper) products made more than 100 years ago or raw materials that originate in the selected subject, such as soil, grass or dust. With regard to techniques, after considering a psychological sense of distance with the subject, its effect, and the history of the technique, I develop a technique that is the most suitable for the relation between the subject and the artist, or select a technique from those at my disposal, painting, print, or washi (Japanese paper) art and then create a work. I have a relation with the subject and carry out production, through which I recognize the subject, and deepen my feeling and thinking. Then, from this new state of being I create once again, and during this process I find the essence of the work is refined and purified. Then I discover values that I believe can only be born through such a chain of process, and visualize them. After considering the relation with the history and nature of the subject place, finally the work is often displayed as pictures or as an installation including pictures. Because of this, I think my works will not only portray materialistic matters, but also bring a deeper experience to the viewer as they deeply read their background.In my opinion, through the production of art, its most important role is to
find the beauty and concepts unique to that location, which have often not yet been recognized, or to rediscover and present them to thewider world.
As an artist, my aim is to confront a subject, with as much honesty as possible,
and create my work, and discover and present something unique through this process.
TAKIZAWA Tetsuya

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