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[Title of work] ⑰ '96 work in YONAGO
HIDEO TOSAKA
Born in Tokyo
1948-
[About the work]
The stones used in the symposium produced locally were awakened from a long sleep and brought to the surface. The mud-covered megaliths make me feel the climate of this region just by their existence and are beautiful.
The landscape with the river at the installation location has a private house on the opposite bank, a mountain with the Nakaumi in the background, and it overlaps with the mountain of the castle ruins, and the valley makes you feel the infinite expanse following the Sea of Japan. After the installation, the purpose of this symposium is to encourage the viewer to accumulate the memory of the landscape and to include the memory in the stone itself. I hope that the stones will begin to breathe with Yonago's life time, and that people will be ticking with the stones. 96 work in YONAGO himself ticked the time for 45 days in Yonago.
[Production] '96 Yonago Sculpture Symposium
[Session] July 13 -August 25 , 1996
[After the '96 Yonago Sculpture Symposium]
[April preview meeting]
Yonago visited for the first time. In discussions with the executive committee members and planning committee members, we asked them to guide us to the production site and installation location, and in the discussions with the executive committee members and planning committee members, we had a vague and fantastic culture, and a large scale, beautiful stone with a strong presence, texture, etc. There was an encounter with the committee stone that gave me a strong impression of color.
[Image planning] How can we incorporate the situation of the installation location, the scenery and the people of Yonago into that beautiful stone (work) with a strong presence? An attempt to fuse Yonago, which has a long history in the past, with Yonago, which is transformed by city planning, with a timeline. I want to create a point of contact between the time of life and the accumulation of memory for self-formation. The concept of symposium production becomes transparent.
[Work planning] Architectural basic scale 1m, basic volume 1m. Create a strict space of 1m at the point of contact of the three stones, and make it an experiential space that strikes a wedge to the time axis of self-formation. For the main body stone, which is the core, open a window to breathe between this bank and the equinoctial week (or the past and the future) in consideration of the installation along the river. The stone (work) contains a new fragment of history in the memory of the existence of the self that is seen from the window. People and works (stones) are constantly changing and interacting with each other in a diverse manner. The stone that just came out of the ground and woke up from sleep is dignified and majestic. It will not lose its appearance, and it will blow up its breath, blow in the existing wind, and wrap up the history of people and build it!
[Open production for 45 days] Embracing the above-mentioned concession, interacting with many people and having a lot of fun, continue production day and night. Initially, a strict 1m space was assumed, but it changed to a fluid and lively space in the relationship with people. As a result of many help crystals, a big stone was safely erected in Yonago, and a stone was also erected in my heart, and I was able to receive many acquaintances and the energy of the great Yonago. Now I am very refreshing and full of blue sky. Thank you very much.
We would like to thank all the people who helped and cooperated in various ways for 45 days, and the friends who worked together and talked about their suffering. We would also like to express our sincere gratitude to all of Yonago for giving us such a wonderful opportunity and encounter.
gradually.
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