Works（2008-2017）

　　　

　　　

　　　　　

　　　　

　　　

　　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

　　　

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Children like drawing the sun.
However, as they become older, the sun disappears from their drawings and pictures.
There is a theory that children put in the sun as an indispensable element of the sky. But I don’t think that’s the only reason.
Van Gogh brushed in the sun frequently. In his masterwork “the tavern where you can see a billiards table”, I feel the sparkling lamp of Sulfur Yellow is “a sun” in the room for him.
With such an impressive“sun” in the background, every time I look at the masterwork as if I am a lost child and mistakenly open the door of the tavern at night and see the front-facing waiter…I feel guilty and creepy, Incidentally, the front-facing waiter mentioned above reminds me of Munch’s upright portrait.
Munk painted the sun, too. His large mural with the sun in the center at Oslo University was criticized as mundane and boring by a famous critic Kenneth Clarke.
The well-known “Guernica” by Picasso had the sun in the center, I hear. But Picasso turned the sun into a lamp during the production, by which the brutality became even fierce, heard and felt in a sealed room. In “Guernica”, I feel the same smell as in “billiards” by Van Gogh; the aerial bombs seen by innocent children and the sun was reworked into the lamp….
A while ago, I anxiously wanted to paint the sun and I did.
The sun is the only root of light and all beings on the earth, and for the artists, the source of motif. It is dreadful to know that in the distant future the sun eventually will swallow the earth. However, for the long time being, the sun is and will be the motif with a tremendous potential for me.
[2017. 9. 2.]

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子どもは太陽をよく描く．
しかし，いつの頃からか描かなくなる．
子どもが太陽を描く理由は「ここが空だ」という記号として描くのだという説もあるが，そればかりではないだろう．
ゴッホも，太陽を絵の中に入れた．
ほんものの太陽のみならず，たとえば有名なビリヤード台のみえる酒場の絵では，サルファイエローに妖しく輝くランプが印象的である．彼にとって，これはまさしく室内の太陽なのだ．
この絵は，迷子の子どもが，まちがって夜の酒場の扉をひらいた瞬間の印象を描いたかのようである．見てはいけない世界を垣間見た瞬間―というか，正面向きの給仕が，ムンクの直立の肖像を連想させ，何とも不気味だ．
ムンクといえば，彼の，オスロ大学にある太陽を中央に頂いた大きな壁画は，批評の名匠ケネス・クラークによって「平凡で退屈」と酷評された．
同じ20世紀の壁画では，高名なピカソのゲルニカが，制作中，中央の太陽がランプに塗り変えられた．これによって，絵は，“密室”で行われた惨禍の残虐性がきわだったのだろう．
無垢な子どもが見た空爆の図と，太陽がランプに代わる意味．ゲルニカには，ゴッホの“ビリヤード”と同じような臭いを，僕は感じる．
少し前，無性に太陽を描きたくなり，僕も描いてみた．
遠い未来，やがては私たちの地球を飲み込んでしまう太陽ではあるが，光の根源，絵画の根源というばかりでなく，全ての生命の源であり，僕にとっても，とてつもない可能性を秘めたモティーフである.
[2017. 9. 2.]

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