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Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space

会期：2018年11月21日〜2019年1月15日
会場：Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Hamriyah Studios
キュレーター：長谷川祐子教授
キュレイトリアル・アシスタント：加藤杏奈（本研究科 教育研究助手）、中村仁香

Asami Kiyokawa < Aesop’s Fables_Aesop >, 2016, Courtesy of the artist ©AsamiKiyokawa

Overview:

Sharjah Art Foundation presents Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space, curated by Yuko Hasegawa at the foundation’s Al Hamriyah Studios. The exhibition will highlight book design in Japan from the early twentieth century to the present through innovative exhibition methods, bringing together typography, page design and photographs combining text and images.

The exhibition will comprise six broad sections, divided according to the individual nature and characteristics of the books on view:

•Books created in the 1930s and 1940s with unique materials such as umbrella-paper, bagworm moths and edible seaweed.
•Photobooks containing photographs by Ikko Narahara of Piazza San Marco in Venice, with the books becoming an installation that recreates an architectural space.
•Books as satisfying objects, presenting varied ideas for 2D and 3D designs
•Books becoming art and artists creating works with a book as their theme, including works by artist, graphic designer and book designer Shinro Ohtake; artist and photographer Asami Kiyokawa, who creates objects by adding embroidery to books; and poet Gozo Yoshimasu, who returns to books the primal elements of his words.
•Pre- and postwar magazine designs and washi paper sample books that highlight iconic designer Hiromu Hara’s deconstructivist approach.
•Photobooks that become an exhibition space.

Culture Convenience Club Co., Ltd. will organise the selection and presentation of the books, and Yoshiaki Irobe from Nippon Design Center will execute the design of the exhibition space. Sharjapan: The Poetics of Space is the first in a three-year-long series of exhibitions to be curated by Yuko Hasegawa for Sharjah Art Foundation.

本学研究科長谷川祐子教授がキュレーターをつとめる、「空間の詩学」展がSharjah Art Foundation主催でAl Hamriyah Studiosにて開催される。

本展は、「本」をグラフィックデザインの要素だけで評価するのではなく、一つの本を構成する要素となる装丁、マテリアリティ、内容、ページデザインなどにも着目し、「本」を総合的な一つの知的なオブジェとして読み替えていく試みです。また、それらの「本」を読むという行為を「本」の空間を知覚する経験と捉えています。そこで、鑑賞者が読者ともなり、日本の「本」の多角性を理解してもらえるよう、展示構成を行いました。

セクション毎に、多種多彩な装丁や独創性に富むアイデアによるオブジェとして本、大竹伸朗、清川あさみ、吉増剛造が本を主題としてつくった作品、展覧会と同じ世界観と空間性をもつ写真集、建築空間表象した奈良原一高の写真集、番傘やミノムシ、海苔などの素材を表紙に用いたゲテ本、日本を代表するグラフィックデザイナー原弘の作品が展示されています。

http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/exhibitions/the-poetics-of-space

Installation view of Asami Kiyokawa’s work, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018. Mixed Media Installation, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Installation view of Shinro Ohtake’s work, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018. Mixed Media Installation, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Installation view of “Photography Book”, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation

Installation view of Getebon books, Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2018. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.