TAKUYA SUGIYAMA. 個展「Reincarnation」
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朗読劇「Reincarnation」の公演
クロージングパーティー「Black Lab」について
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YUGEN Gallery will be holding Sugiyama Takuya's solo exhibition "Reincarnation" from Saturday, July 20th to Tuesday, August 6th, 2024.
overview
- Date : July 20, 2024 (Sat) – August 6, 2024 (Tuesday)
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Venue : YUGEN Gallery
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Address : 4F KD Minamiaoyama Building, 3-1-31 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
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Opening hours : 13:00-19:00 (weekdays), 13:00-20:00 (first day, weekends and holidays) *Closes at 17:00 on the last day
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Reception : July 20th (Sat) Limited preview for invited guests only
- Closing Party: Monday, August 5th, 13:00-19:00 *Tickets required for 17:00-19:00.
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Visitor days : Every day except Thursday, July 25th and Wednesday, July 31st. *Visitor days may change. Please check the pinned post on the gallery’s Instagram for the latest information.
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Admission fee : Free
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Please note : Please note that the dates and opening hours may change without notice depending on the situation.
Exhibition highlights
*Please note that some of the exhibited works may be subject to change.
About the performance of the reading drama "Reincarnation"
At this exhibition We will be performing the reading play "Reincarnation."
This solo exhibition was only completed with the aid of this dramatic reading.
I would be delighted if you could take a look at it.
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Starring: Ruka Ishikawa Takuya Sugiyama
Screenplay by Takuya Sugiyama
Performance time: 15 to 20 minutes
Performance Schedule (※1)
•7/21(Sun) 19:00-
•7/27 (Sat) 19:00-
•7/28 (Sun) 19:00-
•8/01 (Thu) 18:00-
•8/03(Sat) 19:00-
•8/04 (Sun) 19:00-
•8/06(Tue)16:00-
Ticket: 2,200 yen (tax included) (※1)
Location: Inside YUGEN Gallery
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Please apply using this form.
Before the event begins, we will ask all visitors to move outside the museum and then begin accepting applications.
In addition, viewers who are present but have not yet applied can also apply.
*1 Additional performances may be added. We will announce the details as they become available.
*2 Payment on the day, cashless payment only (credit card/transport IC card/PayPay/QUICKPay/iD), cash not accepted.
About the closing party "Black Lab"
The closing party, "Black Lab," will be held on Monday, August 5, 2024.
At the closing party, we will offer welcome drinks to all attendees.
Starting at 5pm, we will have three special guests, KAIRI, GOMESS, and Wanyudo, performing a collaborative performance with the work of Sugiyama Takuya.
Three artists gathered at YUGEN Gallery.
They all have a hip-hop background.
<br>Against the background of Takuya Sugiyama's paintings
An experimental space created through completely improvised rap and beatboxing.
Please come and witness it.
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■Date: Monday, August 5, 2024 ■Timetable:
Open 13:00~ / Live performance 17:00~ / Close ~19:00
■ Admission fee: 3,300 yen (tax included) *1
■Location: YUGEN Gallery
■Address: 4F KD Minamiaoyama Building, 3-1-31 Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo (also includes Gene Co., Ltd. office)
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Please apply using this form.
Before the event begins, we will ask all visitors to move outside the museum and then begin accepting applications.
In addition, viewers who are present but have not yet applied can also apply.
Please note that the content of the event may change without notice depending on the situation.
For the latest information, please see the pinned post on the gallery's official Instagram .
*1 Payment on the day, cashless payment only (credit card/transport IC card/PayPay/QUICKPay/iD), cash not accepted.
Closing Party "Black Lab" Performers
KAIRI
BEATBOX ARTIST is a three-time winner of the JAPAN BEATBOX CHAMPIONSHIP, Japan's largest official tournament. He expresses his original groove, highly artistic worldview, and free, diverse, innovative ideas with overwhelming quality. In 2021, he formed the talented artist collective ARTIFACT and is also active as a contemporary artist. Armed with a three-dimensional aesthetic sense that transcends analog and digital, he has exhibited challenging works, and his activities have attracted attention from various industries.
Instagram: @kairihbb
GOMESS
Born September 4, 1994, in Shizuoka Prefecture. After coming second in the 2nd High School Rap Championship, he gained attention as a rapper living with autism, and his songs "No Longer Human" and "LIFE," which sang about his way of life, shocked audiences. Since then, his unique ideas and lifestyle have been featured in various media, including a special feature on the NHK Educational TV program "Heart Net TV: Breakthrough File.21." He also demonstrates his talent in poetry reading, with his cover of Nakahara Chuya's poem "Blind Autumn" being exhibited at the Nakahara Chuya Memorial Museum. In 2015, his album "River Boat Song -FutureTrax-," which includes the collaborative song "River Boat Song" with folk singer Asakura Saya, won the Planning Award at the 57th Japan Record Awards. Since that year, he has appeared in live events hosted by SEKAI NO OWARI for four consecutive years. In 2018, he guest-performed on Aqua Timez's song "Enishi." In 2019, he wrote and starred in Tokai TV's public campaign "Living with an invisible disability," which won him numerous advertising awards, including the AAC Gold and Galaxy Awards. In 2020, he joined the project band YGNT special collective with Takuya Yamanaka (THE ORAL CIGARETTES) and others, repeating a wide variety of expressions and continuing to speak out words of life as a unique existence.
Instagram: @gomessjapan
Ring Entry
Born in Tokyo in 1990. Grew up on reclaimed land in Chiba. Started activities in 2007. At the age of 17, he participated in a local MC BATTLE and won, earning 200,000 yen in prize money just four months after starting to rap. He honed his skills by performing 131 live showcases a year solely in freestyle. In 2013, he launched his own label "GARAGE MUSIC JAPAN" and released his first album "Kataware". The following year, he won six consecutive MC battles, including Kaku MIX and B-BOY PARK FINAL, for a total of nine wins in one year. He appeared on BS Fuji's debate show "Nagabuchi Enjin". As a result, he also took the stage at "Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi 100,000 All-Night Live 2015 at the Foot of Mt. Fuji". "Tokunoshima", a track from his second album "Higashi-mawari no Tokei", became a smash hit and was released as a 7-inch single. He appeared on TV Asahi's "Freestyle Dungeon" as the second generation monster, and 2023 will mark five years since the late-night program "Rin'udo no Bousou Panchi-line" began airing on his hometown Chiba FM radio station bay fm78. He received an offer from the professional baseball team, Chiba Lotte Marines, to create a cheer song for them, and even performed live at Zozo Marine Stadium wearing pinstripe uniforms with the Chiba area code "043" on the back. His autobiography "I Do It" attracted attention for its candid account of his life, and it reached number one in Amazon's artist biographies. In 2023, the 10th anniversary of the release of their first album and the launch of GARAGE MUSIC JAPAN, they will release their sixth album, "Morning is Full." On August 30, 2024, he will hold a solo concert in his hometown of Mihama, Chiba City. Keep an eye on the rapper Wanyudo, who is constantly expanding his range and striving to achieve great things.
Instagram: @wanyudo
Original goods giveaway! About visitor registration
Customers who register using the form below will receive an original sticker for this exhibition when they visit.
When you come to the YUGEN Gallery, please show the staff the automatic reply email that was sent to your registered email address.
*This form is for customers who wish to receive special benefits when they visit the venue, and it is not necessary to make a reservation using this form when you visit the venue.
statement
Pure creation without concepts
"I find beauty in the stars, the sea, and things that are unartificial. I focus on capturing the phenomena of this world as they are and the pictures that emerge from them," he says, and he practices art as a pure creative process that is devoid of human intention or concept.
An exhibition created using the painting process
The title of this exhibition, "Reincarnation," means "rebirth." Sugiyama believes that life is a phenomenon that continues to change forever, even after death. When plants wither, their leaves fall, and they return to the earth, he does not see this as death, but as a phenomenon in the cycle of life, a single process in the midst of change. In this way, life deepens in the long process of change, spreading out through diverse interactions, and becoming an undulating wave.
In addition to around 20 paintings that range between the concrete and abstract in an attempt to capture the story of the fleeting nature of life, the exhibition is packed with the artist's first endeavors, including a Japanese sword created in collaboration with a swordsmith.
Sugiyama says that when he approaches a canvas, he does not prepare any concepts or sketches, but captures the phenomenon of lines taking shape and colors reacting to each other as they are. On the other hand, when creating an exhibition space for a solo exhibition, he builds it up from a concept, taking a purposeful approach that is the exact opposite of the automatism of his paintings.
This time, the exhibition was created with the concept of "What if we were to create an exhibition space using the approach of painting?" It is an installation where you can witness a chain reaction of events starting from a single painting.
A story unfolding from a blue egg
The beginning of "Reincarnation" is an untitled work depicting a blue egg on an all-black background. It captures "an egg as an entity between life and matter. As it is, it doesn't produce anything, but once fertilized it becomes full of the potential for something to begin. Providence begins from the self-contained world of the egg. It reacts with the outside world and energy flows."
Blue is the color that is most appealing to him because it has a high degree of color correlation and can express the expanse of the universe. The shapes depicted are simply shapes without any concept. They could look like a distant planet or a tiny cell, but they are not limited to any of these. The painting that is the first scene of this exhibition gives a thrilling premonition of the direction of the story, emerging as a providence writhing in the deep darkness.
And then there is the Japanese sword with a picture painted on its white sheath by Sugiyama. Born from the transformation of iron sand and charcoal, the Japanese sword is the crystallization of energy and the very phenomenon of life. It is presented as a symbol of the transience of life.
"When we think of swords, we think of them as weapons. However, things that evoke images of violence are also sculptures that have been created by transforming natural objects. Stone, iron, industrial products, and all of these are phenomena that appear in a constant state of change, and I feel that they are life itself."
A sense of life expanding from a finite state to infinity
"Having concepts means dividing up everything. The more concepts you have, the more restricted you become, and the more closed off you become. This is where disconnection comes from. The world expands when you dismantle concepts and respond to what is in front of you."
People can become more free by being liberated from concepts and values. Rather than trying to extract meaning from what is happening in front of them, they simply witness and react. Sugiyama believes that this is the natural way of life for all living things, and that it liberates creativity and life.
He will also be showing prose pieces that are randomly spun together from words that came to his mind in response to his own work. The expansive possibilities of life can be seen in the wordplay that deconstructs meanings, a style that is unique to Sugiyama, who has also acted in stage productions and films. By removing supports, styles, and all labels, a sense of life spreads infinitely from the limited space of the gallery.
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