MIKI WANIBUCHI

: Aug. 2020

: 10

Japan

  • REVIVE

    REVIVE

    A realistic painting can be an illusion in the sense of existential. On the contrast, an abstract painting can be said very real, in the materiality of its paints and supports and in the physicality manifested by brush strokes etc. My painting belongs to neither. In other words, it explores the origin of a painting using a form of landscape painting as a starting point. I choose only one action of it: reproducing the colours in landscape. This does not exclude the possibility of any accidental intervention. Is it just a depiction, or something that connects people to people, people to society, and the past to the present? I believe this simple action would reveal the (un-)necessity of a painting viewed by the people living in today’s society. In the series “REVIVE”, I use the record of photos of meals before and after the surgery. This is because I think it would symbolise what stomach surgery brings to myself, and it might be the best material to give the viewers time to read the meanings. I have processed the photos into mosaics, extracted colours from them, and faithfully painted dots with it. The information can be easily obtained by showing a photograph, but I think that the abstracted vague "paintings" can tell something more than "information" to the viewers by taking time to read and understand it. It is a Information that includes minor phenomena such as the materiality of canvas, touch of paints, and the physicality of the artist. For example, the passage of time before and after a meal, or what is "to eat" for a person whose stomach has been removed.

    31 January 2021
    Palette "REVIVE"

    Palette "REVIVE"

    31 January 2021
    REVIVE

    REVIVE

    31 January 2021
    Palette "REVIVE"

    Palette "REVIVE"

    31 January 2021
    Palette "REVIVE"

    Palette "REVIVE"

    31 January 2021

    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    13 January 2021
    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    The exhibition was based on the concept of HAIKU. The subject matter that I show the boundary between a viewer and the world by using abstract way of “landscape” still exists, but I challenged a new way of making the body of work which conveys it more naturally than before and fits the space with a hint of HAIKU. If HAIKU poets make their HAIKU in seventeen syllables, fine artists could express the scenery in seventeen colours. I picked up seventeen colours from what I saw in this garden of a samurai house last summer, then painted one colour on one sheet of paper, bringing them together to hide the garden from a viewer, on a purpose of making them step forward to imagine the scenery. I believe the subtle atmosphere of Japanese style could provide a good time and place for the viewer to get provoked their imagination and to get lost in deep thought.

    13 January 2021
    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    13 January 2021
    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    Seventeen Leaf Scenery

    13 January 2021
    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    It's the installation view of the Grand Prix Prize winners’ Exhibition of the Sapporo Odori 500m Underground Walkway Gallery. The purpose of the exhibition was to promote the experience of "to walk" and "to try to learn" the real scenery by having the viewers follow the artist's process of act and thoughts, with the uniqueness of the 500 m museum's rectilinear space. At this non-white-cube space, straight path is the ideal location for the viewer to follow the process of disassembly from the colours from landscape.

    13 January 2021
    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    13 January 2021
    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    Stay beyond (the boundary)

    It has the important aspect for me to walk and take photos in order to “touch the boundary” between inner myself and the outer world. My work starts from this point primitively, speaking of very personal reasons. I hope these help you find some hints to “know” what I am doing for my art.

    13 January 2021