For me, art is a reflection of a person's present. It is a primitive that explores the imagination of people that cannot be pursued by science and technology. Creating is an attempt to solve the mysteries of the world and human beings. I am interested in the source of the imagination of the person who creates civilization. I am often attracted to motifs and materials that make me feel that. I studied sculpture a little at preparatory school and art school, but in my 20s and 30s, I was hardly interested in art, and after moving from one part-time job to another, I acquired technology and plastic thinking in commercial art design such as designer and figure prototype. It was through meditation and mystical experiences in my 40s that I became truly interested in art for the first time.
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【Activity Development】 I am working on four main series (quotation, meditation, idol, and automatic) at the same time, and I am exploring a style that integrates them while evolving them individually.
The Quoted Painting series, which uses banknotes as the main material, will add Western paintings to the ukiyo-e paintings of Hokusai and Kuniyoshi at a solo exhibition in September.
Meditation: In the visualization of meditation experiences, we are working on visualizing and artizing experiences with figurative paintings such as phantom beasts and IDEA that abstracts meditation spaces.
Idol: We are now in the stage of adding painting to the sculpture with character expression called idols.
【Automatic】 We started painting portraits, landscapes, and other photographs in a series of random collages of banknotes called AutomaticPeinnting.
My characteristic is that different series are varied and developed like other people's works, so I am working on how to refine these as a challenge in the future.
[Biography] TARTAROS JAPAN / Kei Hinoya Contemporary artist and curator Born in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture Graduated from the Department of Crafts at Ishikawa Prefectural Technical High School Dropped out of the Department of Sculpture, Faculty of Arts, Japan University As a figure prototype artist, he has produced many prototypes for domestic figure manufacturers. As a product designer, the disc cover was registered in the New York MOMA Design Catalog. In his 40s, he began to engage in contemporary art through mystical experiences through meditation. From a spiritual perspective, he presents a series of paintings and prints on banknote materials, idol sculptures, AutomaticPainting, and meditation paintings on the theme of history, civilization, and idolatry. The main curation is [VR Crafts - Today's Temple]], etc., which uses VR technology. Lives in Okinawa. Solo Exhibitions: 2014 ・"Fusion of art and music" 2016 ・"Alternative Idol" NANATASU GALLERY [Tokyo] ・"Meditation Symbolism" ・"Abstract symbolism" ・"Social Symbolism" ・Lumparumpa [Ishikawa] 2017 ・"PULP FICTION" Lumparumpa [Ishikawa] ・"Meditation and idols" ART HALL GONG [Seoul] 2018 ・"Transform" Lumparumpa [Ishikawa] 2019 ・"KAMIGAMI - God paper" Kinosho Planning [Tokyo] ・"Automatic world" Lumpalupa [Ishikawa] 2020 ・"IDEA" Everyone's Gallery [Tokyo] ・"Meditation Flower-OKINAWA" Cafe-noriche [Okinawa] 2021 ・"GOLD WAVE JAPAN" G735Gallery [Tokyo] ・"Ukiyo" "IDEA Earth" Lumpalumpa [Ishikawa] ・"World exchange" GalleryTAGBOAT [Tokyo] ・"BABEL AGAIN" Contemporary Tokyo [Tokyo] [Group Exhibitions, etc.] 2013 ・TAGBOAT ART FES 2013 ・GEISAI 19 2014 ・TDW ART FAIR 2015 ・+plus-ultra NANATASU GALLERY 2016 ・+plus-ultra Lumpalumpa 2017 ・Kanazawa Newly arrived Art &Craft 2017 by Rempah Rempah [Tokyo Spiral Garden] 2019 ・ONE ART TAIPEI 2019 Taipei Kinosho ・INFINITY JAPAN2019 Taipei Kinosho ・ART Malaysia 2019 Malaysia Kinosho 2020 ・"TAGBOAT× 100 Stairs" Exhibition ・"STAY SHINING TAGBOAT ART SHOW" 2021 ・"TAGBOAT ART SHOW" ・"tagboat art fair" GalleryTAGBOAT ・ART Beijing 2021 Beijing Contemporary Tokyo ・Beijing Contemporary Art Exhibition Beijing Contemporary Tokyo ・ART021 Shanghai Shanghai Contemporary Tokyo 【Awards】 2014 ・The 9th TAGBOAT AWARD Selected works 2014 ・TDW ART FAIR First Semester Special Jury Award. Yusaku Imamura Award [Curation] 2016 ・Digital outsider ・Spiritual Market ( the artfair +plus-ultra 2016 Lumpa Lompa 2018 ・VR Craft Architecture "Today's Temple" ・Planning, Curation, Participation in Works ・Craft Architecture Exhibition 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa 2019 ・VR Crafts "Today's Temple - Regeneration" ・Planning, curation, participation in the work ・[Provided by] Riyu Kim, Motoshi Yamamoto, TARTAROS JAPAN tagboat gallery [Tokyo]