Toshiaki Hicosaka 彦坂敏昭

Hicosaka was born in Aichi in 1983, graduated from the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Information Design. The selected exhibition includes "MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, "Shiseido art egg 2 Toshiaki Hicosaka", Shiseido Gallery in 2008, "ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka", OHARA Museum of Art in 2009, "No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me ́tamorphose du Lieu" The Embassy in France and Rule-Rale-Rele" AISHO MIURA ARTS in 2010, "TRANS COMPLEX - The painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center in 2011 and the most recent exhibition is "New Phases in Contemporary Painting" Hyogo prefectural museum of art in 2012. Hicosaka attended The Pola Art Foundation Fellowships and overseas England and Iceland. He also enthusiastically participated artists oriented exhibitions, "egØ - Re-examining the Self" at punto, 2014, and “yabu no naka” Kyoto University Arts & Design, 2015.

Hicosaka considers the relationship between human and images through workshops, video, photography and paintings, and in his perspectives he tries to find out what is the meaning of communication in paintings and its purpose. His behaviors in communication in paintings, which he rethink the Modernism theory that purely pursuit what was really paintings meant for and he experiments the relationship between human and images and it’ s materiality and blankness. Hicosaka works with many different materials, especially in paintings; he tries to give ideas to audience what can be touch and touched by pictures that meaning included in this exhibition title. Tracing picture images in “Vision” and “Touch” through his experimentation, emerging close to unlimited results, old masters created master pieces with physicality or world used to be much simpler and easier to see the future, thus his works will give the world much more controllable.

Recently, Hicosaka attended the NES Artist Residence in Iceland created the work called “Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves” . In this his newest work, Hicosaka had an idea from the story called “An anecdote of misunderstanding” written by a Japanese author Joseph Heco in end of Edo period. In part of the book described the castaway story written by an American sailor who just wrote many notes in cursive, which Joseph Heco misunderstood and thought they were beautiful sketches of waves.

Soon after Hicosaka read the book, Hicosaka felt that building images of touch/touched by gave him a hint to build the better relation through the world. He clearly visualized that difficulty of our communication and changing images as if the shape waves changes its form and everyday news. Yet, his work warns us that massive images sometime makes us blind, and like waves that comes back and forth, never repeats the same shapes, perhaps, Hicosaka sees the infinite possibilities in waves.

彦坂敏昭,1983 年生於日本愛知縣，2005 年於京都造形藝術大學資訊設計系畢業，2014 年獲得 Pola 藝術基金會資助到英國及冰島作海外研究生。曾參與展覽包括：《2008 東京都現代美術館年度展 - 揭示與啟示》（東京當代藝術博物館，2008）；《第 2 回 Shiseido art egg 彦坂敏昭》（資生堂畫廊，2008）；《AKO2009 彦坂敏昭個展》（大原美術館，2009）；《neoneo 展》（高橋收藏，2009）；《No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me ́tamorphose du Lieu》（前法國領事館，2010）；《Rule-Rale-Rele》（AISHO MIURA ARTS，2010）；《TRANS COMPLEX ‒ 資訊科技時代之繪畫》（京都藝術中心，2011）；《New Phases in Contemporary Art》（兵庫縣美術館，2012）。他亦積極參與聯展包括《egØ - Re-examining the Self》（Punto，2014）和《yabu no naka》（京都造型藝術大學，2015）。

彥坂透過研討會、錄像、攝影和繪畫探討人與圖像之關係，嘗試從中尋找以繪畫語言溝通的意義和目的，為此他反思著現代主義理論純粹地追求繪畫真正意義的目的，同時進行關於人與圖像的關係之具體性與虛無性的實驗。尤其在繪畫上，他的作品運用許多不同的物料，讓觀者聯想畫面上可觸碰或已被觸碰的部分。鑑於過往藝術大師均運用了身體的觸感創作，或以更簡易的方式所詮釋未來世界，彥坂從圖像的「視覺」和「觸覺」進行的創作實驗，得出了近乎無數結果，亦展現出更易駕馭的世界。

近期彥坂參與的 NES 藝術家進駐冰島計劃中，創作了名為《Newspaper Sketches of Ocean Waves》的作品，靈感是來自日本作家浜田彦蔵於幕末時期所著的《漂流記》一書中的《一個誤會的故事》，當中講述一個美軍在船上漂流時，他在筆記上所寫的草書被作者誤以為是對海浪的速寫。彥坂察覺建構可觸碰或已被觸碰的圖像是在世上建立更緊密關係的提示，於是他把圖像溝通的困難清晰地視像化，並因應海浪每天的形狀而改變圖像。作品告誡著觀者觀看大量的影像時容易變得盲目，而彥坂眼中看見的是無限變化的可能性，像海浪般不斷來回，卻不曾重複相同形狀。

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

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  • 2020 Flash, FINCH ARTS, Kyoto, Japan

    2018 We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is

    taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and

    driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction., HARMAS GALLERY, Tokyo

    2017 To Look at the Fire, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London

    2016 Touching / Touched by, AISHONANZUKA, HongKong

    2013 Joining Lines, Aisho Miura Arts, Tokyo / SANSEIDO Gallery, Hyogo, Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2010 Rule – Sule – Tule, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo

    2009 ARKO 2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan *catalogue(JP)

    2008 ARCO Solo Project, Ifema, Madrid, Spain

    2008 Explorative Process Drawing, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (Shiseido Art Egg Award #2)

    2008 ARTIST ON BOARD, TAMADA PROJECT ARTSPACE, Tokyo

    2006 edit edition, Stem Gallery, Osaka, Japan

    2004 A Place Reached by Darkness, Gallery Te, Tokyo

    2004 Explorative Process Drawing, Gallery Maronie, Kyoto, Japan

  • 2020 Rollin' Rollin', FINCH ARTS, Kyoto, Japan

    2020 OBJECT at Anteroom, Hotel Anteroom Kyoto Gallery9.5, Japan

    2020 OBJECT at VOU, VOU, Kyoto

    2020 Big Hug Transformation, Galerie5, Paris

    2019 Open Studio×10, Studio USA, Kyoto, Japan

    2019 MAIX（Malaysia Artist’s Intension Experiment）, TEMPAT BIBAH, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    2019 Kiso Paintings, Ybuhara, Kiso-mura, Nagano, Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2018 VOCA, the Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

    2018 Sensitivity and Emergence, POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo

    2018 Oedinary Children of the 20th Century, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan

    2017 Enokojima Art Days 2017 - OTHER WAYS -, Enokojima Art, Culture and Creative Centre, Osaka Prefecture [enoco], Osaka

    Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2017 Sensitivity and Emergence, POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo

    2015 Yabunonaka, Galerie Aube (Kyoto University of Art and Design), Kyoto, Japan

    2014 egØ – Re-examining the Self, punto, Kyoto, Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2012 New Phases in Contemporary Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2011 TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information, Kyoto Art Center, Japan *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2010 No Man’s Land -Nouvelle Me’tamorphose Du Lieu, Ambassade de France au Japon, Tokyo

    2009 RAIN MEETS THE SUN", MK Ciurlionis National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lietuva *catalogue(EN)

    2009 tequila te quiero", Gallery ni mode, Tokyo

    2009 Niche", Nroom artspace, Tokyo

    2009 BAROCK PLASTIK", I-MYU Projects, London

    2008 The White", MA2 Gallery, Tokyo

    2009 Twenty., Dazed and Confused, London

    2008 Drawing", Tsuchiya Contemporary Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan

    2008 MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo *catalogue(JP/EN)

    2007 41st-rate Art Streams", Gallery Te, Tokyo

    2006 GEISAI#10", Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo

    2006 Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial, Tokamachi-city, Niigata, Japan *catalogue(JP)

    2006 Flowering Dogwood Street Everyone's an Artist", Fukagawa Museum Road Shopping Street, Tokyo

    2006 Pyramid Scheme", maru gallery, Tokyo

    2005 HIDDEN DIMENSION", The Temporary Contemporary, Tokyo *catalogue(JP)

    2005 Communication Art Exhibition", Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan

    2005 Ki-ha(Qi School)", Gallery Te, Tokyo

    2005 Selected Artists in Kyoto: New Wave 2005, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan *catalogue(JP)

    2004 TOKYO COMPETITION", Marunouchi Building, Tokyo *catalogue(JP)

  • 2017 Nominated for VOCA, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo

    2016 Shortlisted for Hariban Award 2016, the Benrido Collotype Atelier, Kyoto, Japan

    2016 Shortlisted for 500m Award 2016, Sapporo Odori 500-m Underground Walkway Gallery, Hokkaido, Japan

    2014 Shortlisted for The 6th Kinutani Koji Award, The Mainichi Newspaper, Japan

    2011 The winner of The DRAFT of Exihibition, Kyoto Art Center, Japan

    2009 Nominated for ARKO2009, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan

    2008 Nominated for The Shiseido Art Egg Award, Shiseido Gallery, Japan

    2004 TOKYO COMPETITION, Tokyo, Japan

  • JAPIGOZZI Collection, Japan

    Ohara Museum of Art, Japan

    Takahashi Collection, Japan

  • 2017 Cleo Roberts (UKIERI PhD Researcher): To Look at the Fire Toshiaki Hicosaka, Art Asia Pacific

    Web: http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/WebExclusives/ToLookAtTheFire

    2014 Isabella Tam (Curator of M+, Hong Kong): Emerging voice in Japanese contemporary art,

    egØ – Re-examining the Self, p.14

    2014 Hiroshi Yoshioka (Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Kyoto University, Japan): On Hicosaka’s works,

    Joining Lines, pp.15-16

    2013 Dehara Hitoshi (Curator of Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan): The Whisperings of Painters,

    New Phases inContemporary Painting, pp.109-113

    2012 Yuko Hasegawa (Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo): On Murayama and Hicosaka’s works,

    TRANS COMPLEX – The Painting in the Age of Information, pp.61-62

    2008 Mihoko Nishikawa (Curator of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo): Asian Contemporary Artist,

    Art in Asia No.04, Hong Kong