2009
南条嘉毅個展 " 際景 〜伊勢詣１〜
Solo Exhibition " KIWA-KESHIKI -Isemoude 1- "
YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY (Tokyo)
Panel, cotton cloth, soil, acrylic paint, etc.
2009
南条嘉毅個展 " 際景 〜伊勢詣１〜
Solo Exhibition " KIWA-KESHIKI -Isemoude 1- "
YUKARI ART CONTEMPORARY (Tokyo)
Panel, cotton cloth, soil, acrylic paint, etc.
This exhibition is the first chapter in a series of experiments based on the pilgrimage to Ise Grand Shrine, starting from Nihonbashi. The artist actually walked the Tokaido road, observed the scenery along the way, and collected soil from the land to create paintings. In 2009, the artist covered the route up to Fukuroi, which is about halfway along the journey, and presented the "edge" of the landscape that emerges from the act of walking, using soil as a material.
The Yoshitaka Nanjo exhibition "Kisai ~Ise Pilgrimage 1~," held in 2009, is positioned as the starting point for a series of experiments based on "Ise Pilgrimage," which represents a new development for the artist.
Yoshitaka Nanjo is an artist who uses "soil" collected from actual locations as his primary material, creating unique landscape paintings based on fieldwork. In his creative process, he walks through towns and mountains, objectively observing and analyzing the landscape before selecting a subject and collecting soil unique to that location. The selected landscape is then boldly stripped of elements from the artist's perspective, sometimes resulting in an unbalanced composition, before being reconstructed on the canvas using the soil he actually collected. These works are not merely landscape paintings as visual reproductions, but rather "specimens of landscape" that encapsulate the nature and memories of the land.
"Ise Pilgrimage," presented in this exhibition, focuses on the pilgrimage route from Nihonbashi to Ise Grand Shrine, and is an attempt to examine the process of landscape creation rooted in the Japanese culture of travel, faith, and movement. The exhibition title, "Kiwakeshiki," is set as a concept that suggests boundary moments when objects and objects, places and landscapes, and even landscapes themselves come into contact and transform.
This exhibition featured 11 works created during the artist's actual walk along the Tokaido road from Nihonbashi to Fukuroi, a post town located midway along the route. Through the continuous landscape created by the movement, the artist's physical experience and manipulation of materials are extracted, quietly revealing the catalyst for the creation of a landscape and how it comes to be a landscape.
As the artist states, this exhibition focuses on "the moments that arise from the overlapping of objects," "the moment when a place transforms into a landscape," and "the process by which a landscape transforms into another landscape," and is positioned as a practice that aims to discover new scenery at these boundaries.