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[Title of work] ⑩ Time of the earth
TORU YOKOYAMA
Born in Shiga prefecture
1954-
[About the work]
This work works on the theme of light and time.
If you go to the quarry, you can meet the huge rock surface cut out by dynamite. The rocks that have been sleeping for hundreds of millions of years are exposed to the sun by human hands, which is a nuisance to the stones.
This time, it is composed of cracked stone skin and artificially modified parts, but I wonder what kind of facial expression will change in the flow of the day and the seasons. I'm looking forward to myself.
[Production] '92 Yonago Sculpture Symposium
[Session] July 19 -August 27 , 1992
[Participating in the '92 Yonago Sculpture Symposium]
I think of the Yonago Sculpture Symposium
In my memory, the sculpture symposium began to be held in various places after the first symposium in Manazuru in Japan. Especially recently, it has been taken up in local cities as part of "City planning with sculpture". I think the attraction is that the theme of the Yonago Sculpture Symposium is "encounter contact", and strangers beyond their position can talk about art through their works.
However, there are many issues. It includes problems that cannot be solved by a single artist, such as the environment in which it is installed, financial problems, the understanding of citizens' works of art, and maintenance of works.
The Yonago Sculpture Symposium takes a private-sector-led format, which is one of the few in Japan, and we hope for dynamic development, including cooperation with the government, in exploring the future direction of the historically young symposium. ..
Finally, the installation of my work was done in the rain, which was a lie in the heat of the past. It is the most tense moment as a writer whether the hard work of 40 days will become a bubble of water. After the installation was completed safely, at the closing ceremony, I wanted to shout "Heaven looks at Yonago" while looking up at the work that stood up in the newly built cultural hall with a clear blue sky.
Looking back on the past summer of Yonago, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all the people who have taken care of me so far.
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