Masaki
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Every artist has a unique vantage point: a singular approach and trial-and-error practice for expressing their reality. Also crucial is the act of determining just what to depict, and what to relate through that depiction.Tamamoto Nana gives one the real sense of a perspective whose focus is not determined by what can be seen with the eyes. It’s turned inward, rather, toward that which is hidden within the artist’s own deepest heart.It is perhaps for this reason that from her creations emanates such a particular sense of something out of the ordinary. From those hues in particular, whose strength can leave the viewer with an unsettled air verging on repulsion, they cause such provocation to the retina. And the uncanniness of form conferred to each of the images, like strange wriggling creatures. This particular blending of unsightliness and passion, this world that does look like madness, dominates the work.Surely this is an inner voice crying out from the artist, an energy endlessly breaking the surface. And it is the artist’s unenviable lot to commit these sensations to canvas. In Tamamoto’s own case, what it is to make art is directly linked to what it is to live. Continuing to create may well be essential to the preservation of balance between the physical and the spiritual aspects of self.This time Tamamoto has undertaken a collection with ‘alphabet’ as its subject. From A to Z, a work created upon the theme of each of the 26 English letters. These pieces differ somewhat from her previous work. That is, her brushstrokes are based in the fixed shapes of the letters: the images painted each with one shared promise and restraint. The artist has made this deliberate move into such a world, into this method of controlled production from which her first impulse must be to flee.And it’s from these works that a fresh new world unfolds, with new aspects like a sense of restraint. The colors go softer; light, refreshing neutral tones, pleasant. What’s more, the shapes come to evince something intellectual, architectural. One fascinating example is Half Moon from the letter D. O is designated Wheel, and U is made a Magnet. What’s suggested by the shapes of each of the letters here is distinctive of the artist’s own sensibilities.Finally, to each of the pieces is dedicated a poem. Included with the image inspired by each letter, this composition expresses words from the interior. It creates a compilation of poetry and pictures: along with an expression of this new step of Tamamoto Nana, it could be called the culmination of her work to date. It is my hope that this anthology will come into the hands of very many people indeed. MasakiNational Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto#玉本奈々 #nanatamamoto #Critic #学芸員 #論文
出産・子育て
ファッション
美容・コスメ
健康・ダイエット
生活・インテリア
料理・食べ物
ドリンク・お酒
ペット
趣味・ゲーム
映画・ＴＶ
音楽
読書・コミック
旅行・海外情報
園芸
スポーツ
アウトドア・釣り
車・バイク
パソコン・家電
そのほか
すべてのジャンル
