搬出作業も終え深く深く深呼吸。
関わってくださった多くの皆様に心より感謝いたします。
思えば2015年の中之条ビエンナーレから2016年のブルガリア、タイでの滞在制作、それ+タイとの海外交流コーディネーターを含めると、振り返る間もないほどで、ずーっと続いている長い道を走り抜けてきたという感じです。特に今年はアメリカでの個展もありちょっぴり限界を感じるくらいに全力で制作に向き合ってきました。その後の中之条での、特に第3小での制作はスタッフの方も他の作家も誰もいない場所で四万に篭って一人黙々と制作する中で日に日に制作意欲が増幅してゆき、近づく期限を尻目に一人胸を躍らせながら制作していました。体力的にはきつかったけれど思う存分制作に集中できたことはとても幸せなことでした。
自分の中では2015年からのこの2年間を大きな括りとしてまずは一区切りをつけたという感覚です。中之条ビエンナーレロスに酔いしれながら、来年から新たな一歩を踏み出せるようこれからじっくりと計画を立てようと思います。
皆様これからもどうぞよろしくお願いいたします!
The second Photo by Galia Yotova
Another venue is the Isama studio. It is under the stairs in the back of the 1st floor, please be careful as it tends to overlook because it is a little recessed.
I grew the crystals with a kind of ammonium and alum. The crystals were grown from one month to two months but the growth was slow and it did not do so large, because it was long rain. The materials are somewhat different, but there are some kits for children’s free research so anyone can be raised. I also set them in a dip of the ground as though crystals were formed there. That is due to the idea of heterogeneous crystals coexisting among minerals.
The title is “World mutually connected”. The materials and methods are roughly the same, but diverse crystals can be created due to slight differences in cultivation conditions, such as weather, temperature, vibration and other everyday environments. Through them, it suggests that various things are connected. You reconsider that not only crystals but also many things that exist are related to each other.The first
Nakanojo is in Gunma prefecture, Japan. My venue is two places. The way of expression is different, but both of them have the concept underlying is same.
“World mutually connected” The world surrounding us is diverse. It is related to each environment, perception, space-time and so on. We are connected to each other somewhere, even if you can see or not.
One of my venue is the first floor of the Former Daisan Elementary school in Shima Onsen area. (Map No. 25). I express two different kind of plants with wire, and the mirror is as a water image. I try to convey that many things are connected to each other through the motif of plants.
After going back to Tokyo, I’ve working for Nakanojo BIennale 2017 in Gunma prefecture.
My venue are two. This is a little bit hard work. Dead line is coming soon…
-Houston Press にヒューストンでの個展を掲載して頂きました。
http://www.houstonpress.com/event/harumi-shimazu-9515277
-Art+Culture という冊子でも取り上げて頂きました。
個展は7月8日ー8月19日まで!6週間のロングランです。
Harumi Shimazu Solo Exhibition : July 8 – August 19.
Nicole Longnecker Gallery, 2625 Colquitt Street, Houston, TX 77098.
http://www.longneckergallery.com/
さて、私は帰国後すぐに中之条の制作に入っています。締め切りまで体力勝負!
I came back to Japan!
I’m preparing for a big art festival in Japan that is Nakanojo Biennale 2017 now!
http://nakanojo-biennale.com/english
My solo exhibition open! Thank you so much everyone!!! I’m very happy and relax now.
Please come to “Artist talk ” Wednesday, July 12.
Nicole Longnecker Gallery presents dual exhibitions:
Harumi Shimazu (in coordination with Yuki Miyamoto of Art Alliance/Tokyo} in the Front Gallery
Nicole Longnecker Gallery Houston
July 8 to August 19, 2017
Front Gallery
Artist Talk
Wednesday, July 12 • 6 – 8pm
http://www.longneckergallery.com/
作品も全て無事に届き、インストールも2日半くらいで完了。
オープニングにはたくさんの方が見にきてくださり本当に感激しました!
来週はアーティストトークがあるのでまた緊張しそうですが
みなさんに楽しんで頂けるようがんばりたいと思います。