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Yuki Muramatsu "SPACY"
Yuki Muramatsu "SPACY"

※英語の後に日本語が続きます

Saturday, January 08, 2022 ‒ Saturday, February 05, 2022

Yuki Muramatsu was born in Yamanashi Prefecture in 1988 and graduated from Tokyo Polytechnic University with a degree in design. In parallel with his subsequent production of illustrations for magazines and various other media, he held exhibitions and operated artist-run space. In 2018, a work of his was selected for the Wonder Seeds exhibition. With the spread of Covid-19, he moved to his current place of residence in Tochigi Prefecture, where he remains vigorously active in artistic production.

Muramatsu’s works depict exceedingly ordinary scenes containing everyday still-life objects such as furniture, vases, food, and plants. This orientation has become even more pronounced since the onset of the pandemic. The artist has said that to portray things around him gives him a sense of really living each day and solidifying his footing. For a solo exhibition in 2020, he displayed works that were executed using pigments he made by crushing earth and stones from Yamanashi, where is grandmother lives, plus paper from Ichikawamisato, a Yamanashi town that is his birthplace and known for its production of handmade washi paper.

Viewing his works somehow brings mingei (folk crafts) to mind. The Mingei Movement was a life-culture campaign that arose in 1926 at the advocacy of a group led by Soetsu Yanagi. Its focus was on items of everyday use that reflected the climate and culture of the particular region, were made by anonymous craftspersons, and had roots in the local lifestyle. Asserting that these items were possessed of a “wholesome beauty” adapted to their utility, mingei proponents presented a new outlook on esthetic value that had been absent before. The opinions they voiced about 100 years ago have since come under various criticism for contradictions to which stylization leads, cultural bias, and commercialism, among other things. Today, when the shape of society has changed completely, a clear-cut answer has not yet emerged on the question of the kind of role their assertions could play now. It can be noted, however, that an eye gazing upon the ordinary as something of value as is, as opposed to seeing it as something special, is put into practice in Muramatsu’s works. This suggests a tolerance for imperfection in an age placing priority on productivity, efficiency, and economic merit, in which everything must be perfect.

This exhibition is composed of new works that afford a glimpse of the earnest attitude animating Muramatsu, who left Tokyo and treasures making art and living as he pleases. We hope to see you at SPACY, which will be LEESAYA’s first exhibition of the new year.


村松佑樹
SPACY

2022年01月08日(土)ー 02月05日(土)

村松佑樹(むらまつ・ゆうき)は1988年山梨県に生まれました。東京工芸大学デザイン学科卒業後、雑誌を中心に様々なメディアに挿絵を提供しつつ、並行して展覧会の開催や、アーティストランスペースの運営を行ってきました。2018年にはワンダーシード2018に入選。COVID-19をきっかけに現在は栃木に拠点を移し、精力的に制作活動を行なっています。

村松の作品には静物としての道具や器、料理、植物など身の周りの至って日常的な風景を描いてきましたが、コロナ禍以降、その傾向はより色濃く現れています。自身の周りを描くことは、きちんと暮らしを送り足元を固めていく感覚があると作家は話します。2020年に行われた個展では、作家の祖母が住む山梨の土や石を砕いて絵具を作り、手漉き和紙の産地である生まれ故郷の山梨県市川三郷町の紙を用いて完成させた作品が展示されました。

彼の作品を見るときに、民藝(民衆的工芸)がふと頭をよぎります。民藝運動とは、柳宗悦らが1926年に提唱した生活文化運動です。各地の風土から名もなき人の手によって生み出され、生活に根ざした日用品には、用に則した「健全な美」が宿っており、それまでになかった新しい美の価値観を提示しました。100年前に掲げられた民藝運動の言説については、様式化の先にある矛盾や、文化的バイアス、コマーシャリズムについてなど様々な指摘があり、社会の様相が一変した現代においてこの言説がどのような役割を担うのか、未だに明確な答えは出ていません。ただ、平凡さを特別と捉えずに平凡のまま価値あるものとして見澄ますまなざしが村松の作品では実践されており、それは生産性や効率、経済性が優先され「完全」でなければならない現代において、不完全さに対する寛容があるように思うのです。

今回の展覧会では、東京を離れ、描くことと暮らしを尊ぶ村松の誠実な態度を窺える新作群で構成されます。新年初めてのLEESAYAでの展覧会SPACYを是非ともご高覧ください。
2022-01-12

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