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thought × layer
想×層
Two-person exhibition Akinori UENO Miki (Akinori Ueno × Miki)
2013. Gallery H2O, Kyoto, Japan
thought × layer overlays painting and projected CGI animation onto a single surface. Opposing elements — individual and collective, silence and clamor, light and shadow — were each created from the two artists' own perspectives and then layered into one work.
Created as the unit Akinori UENO Miki, with Akinori Ueno as CGI director, the projected work was placed at the center of the room, surrounded by Miki's paintings.
The base is two paintings of lotus: one in full bloom, the other fallen to stem and calyx. When the CG animation is projected, set to Debussy's Arabesque, the still images begin to move, until it is no longer clear where the painting ends and the projection begins, raising the question of whether what we see is real or illusion. At its center, the lotus — rising from muddy water to bloom — stands as a symbol of tenacious, resilient life that flowers precisely because of the mud of the secular world. Conceived under the influence of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and the nuclear accident that followed, the work holds an affection for life that endures through disaster and conflict.
thought × layer (想×層), 2013 Akinori UENO Miki (Akinori Ueno × Miki)
Mineral and suihi pigments on washi-covered wooden panel, 116.7× 80.3cm each (2 panels)
Projected CGI animation, 222 × 355 cm, 4 min 43 sec (loop)
Concept: Akinori UENO Miki
CGI: Akinori Ueno
Painting: Miki
Piano: Tadashi Suenaga (Debussy, Arabesque)
the open west 2013 (selected)
Newark Park (National Trust) and
Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum, UK
The work was selected for the open west 2013, a UK open exhibition that toured to Newark Park (National Trust) and Cheltenham Art Gallery + Museum (The Wilson), and received The University of Gloucestershire Award. Writing for a-n Interface (a-n The Artists Information Company, 2013), Sunny Cheung described the work as "equal parts moving image, painting and shadow play."
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