The Project undertaken by Abe Daisuke and Takano Takeshi is a work/ project employing a primitive type of printmaking, the "peel print" technique, in which the object is reproduced accurately without using machinery such as a press. The surface of the object is covered in blue ink, glue is applied on top of the ink, and once the glue congeals, the unevenness of the surface and detailed expressions of the object are beautifully transferred.
The color blue, which Abe and Takano chose, reminds us of blueprint, which has become an endangered method of reproduction in recent years, and suggests that they are turning their attention to the correlation between memory and record. When keeping an accurate record of a certain situation, nowadays it is easier to rely on media such as photographs or videos, but they have deliberately chosen printmaking. This is probably because, even more than visual accuracy, they intended to reproduce the touch, three-dimensionality, and texture. This is not documentation or reproduction but a pursuit of a live existence clad with what Walter Benjamin referred to as aura.
Hattori Hiroyuki / Independent Curator
阿部大介と鷹野健によるプロジェクトは、プレス機などの機材を用いない「はがし刷り」の技法によって対象を精確に写しとる原初的な版画表現を用いた作品/プロジェクトだ。青色のインクを対象物の表面に塗布し、その上に木工用ボンドなどの樹脂を重ね、それらが固まると綺麗に対象物の表面の凹凸や細かな表情が写しとられるというものだ。
彼らが選択した青という色は、近年は絶滅危惧となった複製技術である青焼きや青写真を連想させ、記憶と記録の相関関係に意識を向けていることが伺える。ある状態を正確に記録して残す場合、現在なら写真や映像というメディアのほうが手軽だが、彼らは敢えて版画を選択する。それは、視覚的な正確さ以上に、手触りや立体感、テクスチャーを写しとることを意図しているからだろう。記録(ドキュメンテーション)や複製ではなく、ヴァルター・ベンヤミンが言うところのアウラをまとった生の存在を求めているのだ。
服部 浩之/インディペンデントキュレーター
◼︎ Solo Exhibitions
2016 Fan de Nagoya Art Exhibition “NIPPON lE (Japan house)” / Nagoya Citizens, Gallery Yada, Japan
Peel Off the Memory-AOMORI / AIN SOPH DISPATCH, Aichi, Japan
Memory of the Port Town / Botão Gallery, Aichi,Japan
Floating Traces / Former McDonald's Shinmachi branch, Aomori,
Japan
2018 Inverted spaces / Gallery N Kanda, Tokyo, Japan
Floating Traces / Ain soph dispatch, Aichi, Japan
Collect / Gallery SUIRAN, Gunma, Japan
2019 Log and Echo / The Formaer Ochiishi Radio Station, Hokkaido, Japan
◼︎ Group Exhibitions
2014 Aomori Print Triennale 【Sponsored Works Prize】 /
Aomori City Art Gallery/Vacant store on Yomise dori (Night Market Street), Aomori, Japan
2015 TRANSITIONS: International Exhibition of Prints / China Print
Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2016 MAT, Nagoya Studio Project vol.3: OPEN STUDIO /
Minatomachi PoT LUCK BUILDING, Aichi, Japan
2017 Art in Creative Reuse!"Nikkatsu Romance" / Chofu City Culture Hall Tazukuri, Tokyo, Japan
Cross References / Art Laboratory Hashimoto, Kanagawa, Japan
2018 VOCA - the vision of contemporary art 2018 / The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Weather-ring Project / Galleria grafica bis, Tokyo, Japan
The Sandal of King / Botão Gallery, Aichi,Japan
Graphica Creativa 2019 – Hereafter / Jyväskylä Art Museum, Finland
2021 Minanomachi Art Book Fair / Minatomachi PoT LUCK BUILDING, Aichi, Japan
◼︎ Solo Exhibitions
2016 ファン・デ・ナゴヤ美術展2016 記憶のはがし方プロジェクト「日本 家」
(名古屋市民ギャラリー矢田/愛知)
Peel off the memory -AOMORI(AIN SOPH DISPATCH/愛知)
みなとのきおく Memory of the Port Town(Botão Gallery/愛知)
Floating Traces (旧マクドナルド新町店/青森)
2018 反転する場(ギャラリーN神田社宅/東京)
漂跡-Floating Traces(Ain soph dispatch /愛知)
Collect(画廊翠巒/群馬)
2019 ログとエコー / Log and Echo(旧落石無線局跡/北海道)
◼︎ Group
Exhibitions
2014 AOMORI PRINT トリエンナーレ2014【企画制作部門賞】
「記憶のはがし方」(青森市民美術展示館、夜店通り空き店舗/青森)
2015 TRANSITIONS International Exhibition of Prints(China Print Art Museum/中国 深圳)
2016 MAT, Nagoya Studio Project vol.3 : OPEN STUDIO
(Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING/愛知)
2017 クリエイティブリユースでアート!(調布市文化会館たづくり/東京)
Cross References:協働のためのケーススタディ(アートラボはしもと/神奈川)
2018 VOCA展2018(上野の森美術館/東京)
Weather-ring Project–構想計画所+記憶のはがし方プロジェクト
(galleria grafica bis/東京)
殿様のわらじ-ボタンギャラリー記録展 (Botão Gallery/愛知)
Graphica Creativa 2019 – Hereafter(Jyväskylä Art Museum、フィンランド)
2021 港まちアートブックフェア2021(Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING/愛知)
Nikkatsu Romance
VOCA / collect
Log and Echo