展期 Period：
2024.7.6—2024.8.31
艺术家 Artist：
石井友人 Tomohito Ishii地点 Venue：
前言 Introduction：
東京画廊＋BTAP荣幸宣布将于2024年7月6日至8月31日举办日本艺术家石井友人在北京的首次个展。
本次展览主题《伊卡洛斯和地灵》来自于古希腊神话中伊卡洛斯因使用人工设计的翅膀飞翔过高，而被太阳融化跌入海中的故事，隐喻着人类过于依赖现代技术的危险性。现代工业技术的飞速发展拓展了人类的视觉范畴，但同时也弱化了我们和大自然之间的关系。
技术只是将表象转化为一种数据。但绘画不同，是艺术家用物质和思想去创作的，不仅仅是视觉层面上的图像，而是事件发生的场域。好比地灵的概念，指的是一个场所的特征，蕴含了历史和文化。绘画创作也一样，和图像技术不同，绘画反映的是在一个时间内事件发生的场域，有背后的历史和故事，能提醒我们去关注他们和自然的联系。而石井的作品就是通过拍照片等既有图像加上手绘创作，让我们从新的角度去思考这些问题。
本次个展将网罗和展示石井在过去十年间的二十余件大小绘画创作，从艺术家长期关注的城市风貌、植物园、石瓦静物到人像主题等等。其中包括他于2011年创作的“Sub image”红蓝或黑白的二重形象系列和近年集中创作的正反双重像“Sub Anaglyph”系列。石井用自己拍摄的照片或即在的形象作为绘画的来源，对作为信息接收器的视觉提出问题，进行创作。近年来艺术家试图尝试，以图像的再现为起点，将图像的横向纵向分割、半镜面透射/反射的分裂的视觉性、艺术家的具象再现和机械（打印机）的模糊输出等等，在画面的多层的对抗中呈现出空白，创造出想象和行为的根源的场域。
石井友人，1981年出生于日本东京。2006年毕业于武藏野美术大学造型研究科美术油画专业并取得硕士学位。2017年参加“The Laforêt Summer Vacation Project”(吉法)。此前参展过“大和收藏展 VII” (冲绳县立博物馆·美术馆，冲绳，2015年)、“‘复合回路’认知的境界” (GalleryαM，东京，2011年)、“15 Years” (WAKOWORKSOFART，东京，2008年)、“Portrait Session”(广岛市现代美术馆，广岛，2007年)，2012 年获武蔵野美术大学巴黎赏。2005年获 holbein 奖学金。连续两年参展東京画廊+BTAP(北京)举办的主题群展 “新朦胧主义”。
TOKYO GALLERY + BTAP is delighted to announce Japanese artist Tomohito Ishii’s first solo exhibition in Beijing from July 6th to August 31st, 2024.
The exhibition Icarus and the Spirit of Place draws from the ancient Greek myth of Icarus, who melted by the sun and fell into the sea after flying too high using artificially designed wings, pointing at the dangers of humankind's over-reliance on technology. While the rapid development of modern industries and technology has expanded the scope of human vision, they have also weakened our relationship with nature.
Technologies have transformed images into data. Painting, however, is what the artist creates with matter and thought. It is not only images on a visual level but a place where events happen. Ishii’s paintings refer to the notion of the spirit of place, suggesting to the characters of a place that have been embedded in its history and culture. Similarly, unlike imaging technology, painting practice is the sum of events taking place at a given time. It refers to the history of art and lived experiences, reminding spectators to associate its relationship with the world. Ishii’s work draws sources from photographs and other found images, encouraging viewers to reconsider these issues from a new perspective.
This exhibition will include over twenty paintings and drawings by Ishii over a decade, featuring urban landscapes, botanical gardens, and stone tile still life to portraits and many subjects of the artist’s lasting interest. His “Sub Image” series of red, blue, or monochrome doppelgangers, completed in 2011, and his “Sub Anaglyph” series of positive and negative doppelgangers are also included. Ishii adopts his photographs and existing images as the source of his paintings and addresses issues concerning the domain of visuality as both the reception and projection of information. In recent years, the artist has experimented with reproducing images as a point of departure, dividing the image vertically and horizontally or splitting the visuality of semi-specular transmission/reflection, figuration and mechanical reproduction. Through multiple layers of pictorial resistance, Ishii presents a void where spectators discover the source of imagination and action.
Tomohito Ishii was born in Tokyo in 1981. He obtained a master's degree in 2006 in painting from the Graduate School of Art and Design, Musashino Art University. Ishii was the artist-in-resident at the Laforet Summer Vacation Project in Ghiffa, Italy (2017). He was part of major exhibitions, including “Daiwa Collection VII” (2015) at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Okinawa, “Complex Circuits” (2011) at Gallery αM, Tokyo, “15 Years” (2008) at Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, and “Portrait Session” (2007) at Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima. His major awards and grants include the Musashino Art University Paris Award (2012) and the Holbein Scholarship (2005). He also participated in two consecutive editions of the Neo-Mōrōism exhibition at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (Beijing) since 2013. This exhibition will open on July 6th, attended by the artist. We look forward to your presence.
