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Sen Takahashi "CAST AND ROT"
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Saturday, June 26, 2021 ‒ Sunday, July 18, 2021

Born in Tokyo in 1992, Sen Takahashi received a Master's degree in sculpture from the Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2021. Based on his foundation of the know-how required for sculptural expression, he has been avidly producing video works, installations, and other pieces that make maximum use of the features of a variety of materials including edible candy and aromatic oil. The main exhibitions where he has showed works so far were "Between Two Stools" at The 5th Floor (Tokyo, 2020) and "Sustainable Sculpture" at KOMAGOME SOKO (Tokyo, 2020). Since completing the aforementioned Master's course, this young artist has been garnering even more attention.

Takahashi first came to full-fledged grips with art not in educational institutions or through creative activities, but in the work of conserving bronze sculptures as part of a job. In many cases, artistic activities generally start with self-expression through production utilizing some sort of materials. In Takahashi's case, in contrast, they began with the rare experience of being confronted with works that were rotting or otherwise showing signs of losing their original condition, and taking action to conserve them. While performing the procedure for conservation, the artist simultaneously imagines the final fate of the object in question. In Takahashi's art, one always senses preparations for the end of things and related behavior. The works in which the artist faces up to his own existence are no exemption. The perspective is not the humanistic one associated with "vanitas" allegory or a Buddhistic sense of impermanence. While accepting the fact that even his own works, like everything else around him, will eventually go out of existence, the artist simply observes the uncertainty of being and expresses it in his art.

This solo exhibition presents new works in the "Cast and Rot" series produced by the application of measures used for conserving bronze sculptures to carrots. Figuratively speaking, these works forcibly put bronze sculptures and carrots, whose respective speeds of deterioration over time are obviously radically different, on the same temporal axis. What is lost, and what remains, as a result?

Please make sure to see "Cast and Rot," the first solo exhibition of works by Sen Takahashi at LEESAYA Gallery!


髙橋銑
CAST AND ROT

2021年06月26日(土) - 07月18日(日)

髙橋銑(たかはし・せん)は、1992年東京都に生まれ、東京芸術大学美術研究科彫刻専攻を2021年に修了しました。彫刻表現に要する技術を礎に、映像作品やインスタレーション、食用の飴や香油など、様々な素材の持つ特性を最大限活かし、作品制作に意欲的に取り組んでいます。主な展覧会に「二羽のウサギ / Between two stools」、The 5th Floor(東京、2020年)、「Sustainable Sculpture」、KOMAGOME SOKO(東京、2020)など。修士課程修了を機に、一層注目を集める若手アーティストです。

髙橋が初めて本格的に美術に触れたのは、教育機関や制作活動ではなく、仕事で携わったブロンズ彫刻の修復作業でした。多くの場合、何らかの素材を使い作品制作を通して、自己表現をしていくことが芸術活動の始点となるのが一般的でしょう。しかし髙橋の場合は、朽ちかけ、元の状態が壊れる前兆のある作品に対峙し、それを修復するという稀有な体験が始まりとなりました。直すという行為と同時に、そのものの終焉を想像すること。彼の作品表現には常に事物の終わりに対する身支度や、振る舞いを感じさせます。それは作家自身の存在そのものに向き合う場合でも例外ではありません。ヴァニタスや諸行無常など、ヒューマニズムのまなざしではなく、ただそこに事物が存在するのと同じように、制作した自身の作品さえ、いつか失くなることを受け入れながら、存在の不確かさを静観し、作品へと表現しています。

今回の個展では、ブロンズ彫刻に用いられる保存処置を野菜のニンジンに施した「Cast and Rot」シリーズの新作群を発表します。経年劣化のスピードが大きく異なるブロンズ彫刻とニンジンを、無理やり同じ時間軸に当てはめたとき、そこでは何を失い、何が残っていくのでしょうか。
LEESAYAでの初めての個展となります、髙橋銑の「CAST AND ROT」を是非ともご高覧ください。
2021-06-25

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