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佐佐木實。

しんぞう。

 

これまでに親しい交流は無かった二人。

でも互いに美術家として尊敬していた。

 

『實しんぞう』はこの二人の美術家が本展の為に約一年をかけて接近し、互いを発見しながら一緒に展覧会を作り出そうとする企画です。みんなのギャラリーの発案により、佐佐木がキュレーションまで総合的に担当しています。

 

どんな展覧会になるのか、当の二人もみんなのギャラリー側も明確な予想図を描かずのスタート。手探りすることを求めたのです。

 

二人はメールで言葉を投げかけ合い、互いの興味や着想の源泉について対話を始めます。対話することで互いに触発し合い、それを出発点にして制作した作品を発表する展覧会にしようと考えたのです。

戦争、テロ、祭礼、身体の回復能力や身体の触れ合いによる癒しの力、心の痛み。そして、自らの内にある狂気。メール対話は幅広い話題に及びました。二人は本音で語る喜びを分かち合います。終いには、過去の制作メモや制作前の準備スケッチを互いに開示するまでに至ります。

 

対話の結果、二人の制作の手順には共通するものが見えてきました。二人はともに自らを取り巻く世界との接触点を（それが社会問題であれ日常の営みであれ）微視的巨視的に観察した上で、自分なりの回答なり感想なりを探し、それを全身全霊で観者に差し出そうとしているのです。それは自分が何者であるかという問いに答えようとすることでもあります。綿密な準備をすることがあっても実際の制作の際にはその時その場で感じた本能や直感を優先する、なぜならそれがその瞬間での自分そのものだから、と考える点でも共通項があるようです。

 

数ヶ月に渡る対話の後、二人は対話を中止して、互いに一人きりで制作に臨むことにしました。対話自体が大きな成果であった一方、一人で世界と向かい合う時間が二人には必要だったのです。

 

本展では、二人の対話の成果である新作を中心に、二人が対話を通して改めて取り上げて見たいと考えた過去の作品を合わせて展覧会を構成いたします。

二人の接近の成果を是非ご覧ください。

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佐佐木 實

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MINORU SINZOW Show is a project to unit two artists: Minoru Sasaki (myself) and SINZOW for a duo exhibition.

Both of us have great respect for each other’s art but did not have any significant interaction before. The director of Minnano Gallery gave us one whole year to discover each other, to prepare for the show together. Also, he had the generosity to give carte blanche to me in order that I can take charge of the direction of the show as well.

 

At the beginning, neither the artists nor the director of the gallery had precise idea about what kind of exhibition it would be. All of us were completely new to this type of project, so that we decided not to anticipate too much in order to explore the entire process with a flexible mind.

 

SINZOW and I started e-mail dialogues. We exchanged words, talked about interests or sources of inspiration which each of us had at the moment. We had an idea: it would be nice if we could built our exhibition on this stimulating exchange, with new works we would create on the basis of our discussions.

War, terrorism, rituals, human body’s ability to self-heal, healing power of touch, heartache we feel... and mental disorders which secretly harm both of us from time to time. The e-dialogues covered a variety of subjects. Both of us truly appreciated the heart to heart communication. At the end, we desired to reveal ourselves more, by showing past idea notes and preparatory sketches to each other.

 

The e-dialogues allowed us to realise that we have a similarity in the process of creation. We start with observing how we are involved in our surroundings or in the world, microscopically as well as macroscopically, so as to capture problematics, no matter whether they concern social issues or our daily life; after that, we tend to work the problematics out to find our own answers or impressions, and to convey them to the public with our entire soul. Needless to say, it is through our art. In other words, the process of the creation is, for us, a challenge to answer the question: who am I?

We have another point in common: we give the priority to our instinctive flashes or intuitions we may have at the moment of creation and do not hesitate to modify the initial plans, even if they are well elaborated, because this is how the creation can reflect our entire existence.

 

After several months of e-dialogues, we stopped the exchange as to work alone. The mutual discovery was a wonderful outcome but we needed to be alone to face up to the world better.

 

In this exhibition, we will organize the space with our new works which are the ‘fruits’ of our exchange, as well as with the past works which we would like to take up as they seem related to the subjects we discussed in the e-dialogues.

 

We cordially invite you all to discover the fruitfulness of our exchange.

 

Minoru Sasaki