One work show #1
I visited the first installment of “One work show,” a new project at Miura Jiro Gallery bis, featuring Daichi Igarashi. Running concurrently was Niko Hirano’s debut solo exhibition, but Miura Jiro Gallery bis is located one floor down, on the third floor.
Daichi Igarashi was an artist I had been paying attention to since he did a public painting session at the recent Geisai festival.
As of October 2018, he is a third-year student at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Daichi Igarashi
As the title suggests, “One work show” is a project in which only one artwork is exhibited.
The first installment features Daichi Igarashi’s major work, “portrait I.”
“In Western art, symmetry, beauty, and orderly geometric forms have been considered beautiful.
In contrast, the Japanese sense of beauty is rooted in the idea of ‘the beauty of insufficiency,’ which finds lingering resonance in the incomplete, the uneven, and the simple.
By deliberately breaking down the symmetrical and orderly techniques of Western art, I express the sensibilities of ‘wabi,’ ‘sabi,’ and ‘the beauty of insufficiency’—qualities that emerge anew through the expansion of the imagination, rather than viewing insufficiency as inadequacy.
For the first One work show at Miura Jiro Gallery bis, the ‘Daichi Igarashi Exhibition,’ I created the work with the aim of blurring the connections between the body parts of the portrait, stimulating the viewer’s imagination to evoke a sense of ‘yugen’ (mysterious depth) and ‘lingering resonance.'”
portrait I
The gallery interior is covered in black curtains and completely dark. The only illumination is a single beam of light shining on the artwork.
The canvas appears mysteriously to float in the darkness.
The matiere, illuminated by the light, emitted a fantastical glow.
The exhibited works are limited in number, but I understood this as preparation for future solo exhibitions.
A promising talent whose future is exciting to watch—high expectations!
