Regarding photography as one of the two-dimensional techniques and exploring new possibilities for two-dimensional expression. In recent years, “away from painting [Mount of Stones] (2019 Tokyo Midtown Permanent Art Collection) and “away from painting [Kiyoshi Seike, House of Saito Assistant Professor] (triptych / 2017), which radically uses the depiction of photographs, nature of photographs. (Original architecture does not exist. Captured 1/1 full-scale model at the “Japanese House exhibition at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo)
Main exhibits are “Water and Land Niigata Art Festival 2009" (Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture,2009), “No Mans Land / MEMENTO VIVERE / MEMENTO PHANTASMA (French Embassy, Tokyo,2009), “Journey to Niigata (Niigata City Museum of Art, Niigata Prefecture,2010 ), “Tokyo Midtown Award 2010 (Tokyo Midtown, Tokyo,2010 ), SHOUDOSHIMA-island AIR selection and exhibition (Kagawa Prefecture, Setouchi, 2010). Participated in the 2016 Venice Biennale Architecture International Exhibition (Japan Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy) and the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennale (Chicago City Cultural Center, U.S.A.) as a collaboration with Shingo Masuda and Katsutoshi Otsubo, Architects. There is also “Shouou Foundation Study Abroad Award 10 Years, and Now “2006-2015 (Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art,Okayama Prefecture 2019).
The main awards are the Grand Prize of TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD “the Best of the Best TMA Art Awards competition held in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD for permanent art collection (by Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.) It has been open to the public as a permanent exhibition since 2019. Also received the PX3 Honorable mention Juried Award and International Photography Awards Honorable Mention in 2012. In 2011, the 5th Shouou Foundation Study Abroad Grant. With Grant, traveled around Japan and other Asian countries to research animism, Shintoism, Buddhist thought, and artistic expression. Established a studio in Yamagata, Japan in 2014.
ISHIYAMA kazuhiro
Last update : 15 Mar. 2024
Works
IWI05010
Away from painting [Mountain of stones]Ⅱ
2019
Archival inkjet print, aluminumW3,200xH3,200xD1.5mm
Tokyo Midtown
Public Art Permanent Collection
(Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.)
※On permanent display
Tokyo Midtown (Roppongi),
Midtown Tower, B1F Entrance
A large number of image data are combined into one precise image. As a result, standing in front of this artwork provides more visual information than looking at the actual mountain at the site, and the artwork allows us to observe the mountain more clearly. As a result, there is a strange realism to the image, which raises the question of what reality is. Also, on the screen, the entire landscape is in focus. This is not possible in ordinary photography, and as a result, it shares characteristics with the Flemish paintings of the 15th and 6th centuries, when the landscape began to be the subject. However, because of the photographic technique, every detail is strangely clear, and the work is still not a painting, and the title of the work reflects the characteristics of photography, which wavers between painting and photography. In this work, I aimed to present a new way of image in two-dimensional expression by thoroughly exploring the "descriptiveness" that is characteristic of photography.
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