STREET DREAMS STUDIOS TOKYOは2024年7月13日（土）よりアーティスト 袁方洲による個展「HETEROTOPIA」を開催いたします。
袁方洲は中国遼寧省生まれ。2018年清華大学美術学部工芸専攻を卒業後来日し、東京藝術大学大学院で博士号を取得。現在は茨城を拠点に活動しています。その活動は中国や日本だけに留まらず、韓国、チェコ、バングラデシュなどグロバールに作品発表を続け、国内でも「創立50年記念 '21 日本のガラス展 Glass '21 in Japan」（ヒルサイドフォーラム/東京）、個展「中間体 Intermediary compound」（Tokyo International Gallery/東京）、「第24回岡本太郎現代芸術賞展」（川崎市岡本太郎美術館/川崎市）、「ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2023」（京都文化博物館/京都）など、多くの展示を行っています。
彼は、人・物・自然の関係性に着目し、ポスト・ミニマリズムや仏教など、東洋思想に影響された自身の哲学に基づき、ガラス素材を中心に、複数のメディアと技法を交錯させる制作活動を行い、素材の内在する「意識」を尊重し、焼成過程で自発的に生まれる独特な形態を作品と捉えています。中でも冷えたガラスを電気炉で加熱成形するキルンワーク技法を用いて作品を制作しています。
本展では、哲学者ミシェル・フーコーの「HETEROTOPIA」という概念を中心に据え、ガラス素材で現実における絶対的な「他なる場所」を再現します。「HETEROTOPIA」とは、現実に存在しないユートピアとは異なり、現実に存在する絶対的に「他なる場所」のことを言います。今回は作品を黒とピンクのみで制作し、自然と人工の狭間に位置する新たな物質形態をガラスの独特の表現で構築する事で、自身の記憶と経験に基づき、現実と「他なる空間」が交わる領域を再考します。
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STREET DREAMS STUDIOS TOKYO will hold a solo exhibition titled "HETEROTOPIA" by artist Yuan Fangzhou starting from Saturday, July 13, 2024.
Yuan Fangzhou was born in Liaoning Province, China. After graduating from Tsinghua University with a major in Arts and Crafts in 2018, he came to Japan and obtained his PhD from Tokyo University of the Arts. He currently works based in Ibaraki. His artistic activities extend globally, with exhibitions not only in China and Japan but also in Korea, the Czech Republic, Bangladesh, and beyond. In Japan, he has exhibited at venues such as "The 50th Anniversary, Glass '21 in Japan" (Hillside Forum, Tokyo), the solo exhibition "Intermediary compound" (Tokyo International Gallery, Tokyo), "The 24th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art" (Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki), and "ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2023" (Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto).
Focusing on the relationships among people, objects, and nature, Yuan integrates multiple media and techniques based on his philosophy influenced by Eastern thought such as post-minimalism and Buddhism, primarily centered around glass materials. He respects the "consciousness" inherent in materials and views the unique forms spontaneously created during the firing process as integral to his works. He particularly employs the kiln work technique of heating cold glass in an electric furnace.
In this exhibition, Yuan explores the concept of "HETEROTOPIA" coined by philosopher Michel Foucault, aiming to recreate an absolute "other space" within reality using glass materials. Unlike utopia, which does not exist in reality, "HETEROTOPIA" refers to the absolutely "other spaces" that exist in reality. For this occasion, Yuan creates works solely in black and pink, constructing new material forms that inhabit the boundary between nature and artifice through the unique expression of glass. Based on his own memories and experiences, he reexamines the intersection where reality and "other spaces" converge.
We can’t wait to see all of you at the gallery!