{"title":"Hisashi Yamamoto","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalligrapher\/Artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1969. Currently residing in Hiroshima Prefecture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e After working on the Inoue Yuichi Catalogue Raisonné from 1990, he held his first solo exhibition, \"Machine,\" at Unac Salon in 2015. In 2016, his collection of works, \"Fune\" (YKG Publishing), was published. In 2024, his second collection of works, \"Ugokuki\" (ART DIVER), will be published. In the same year, he exhibited at Kiaf SEOUL through Yumiko Chiba Associates, and is currently active in this field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Major exhibitions to date include \"One-person Art\" (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010), \"Flying Saucer\" (Yumiko Chiba Associates viewing room shinjuku, 2016), \"Speech Balloon\" (Gallery NOW, 2017), \"Triple Tower\" (TMMT, 2018), \"Game\" (Fukuya Hatchobori Main Store Art Gallery, 2022), \"Naming The World\" (Yumiko Chiba Associates, 2024), and \"Kitagawa Kazunari, Yamamoto Takashi, Hino Kimihiko | Letters and Margins, tentative name\" (Yumiko Chiba Associates, 2025).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The main collection is at the Taoyuan Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eArtwork image:\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e Hisashi Yamamoto, Waterfalls, 2025 ©︎Hisashi Yamamoto, Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"everchanging-4","title":"Cowshed","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis work is an attempt to unearth layers of individual and inherited memories through the motif of a \"cowshed.\" Using fragmented personal experiences and pre-war memories recounted by the artist's father as clues, the work imaginatively evokes a past not directly experienced. By giving form to memories that would otherwise be lost, it presents a personal yet universal way of being. Through the conceptual method of naming objects, this work re-examines the relationship between language and vision, and meaning and form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904124797187,"sku":"everchanging-4","price":495000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/Y5-1.jpg?v=1775197952"},{"product_id":"everchanging-5","title":"UFO (Hand Spinner Type)","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis work re-examines the relationship between language and vision, and meaning and form, using the image of a UFO as a clue and a conceptual method of naming objects. Against existing images such as the Adamski-type and cigar-shaped UFOs, this work presents a modern form, the \"hand spinner type,\" suggesting that UFOs are products of human imagination. It is a work that visualizes how images are formed, including the very process of generating the title and statement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904124829955,"sku":"everchanging-5","price":143000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/Y2-1.jpg?v=1775197953"},{"product_id":"everchanging-6","title":"Monster","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThrough conceptual methods such as naming objects, we re-examine the relationship between language and vision, and meaning and form.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904124895491,"sku":"everchanging-6","price":143000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/Y4-1.jpg?v=1775197953"},{"product_id":"everchanging-7","title":"Ghost","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis work re-examines the relationship between language and vision, and meaning and form, through the conceptual method of naming objects. The word \"obake\" (ghost\/monster) is based on the artist's childhood memory of a haunted house at an amusement park—of \"obake\" as figures that would hit visitors with sticks—and thus contains a discrepancy from the common image of an \"obake.\" This work highlights the arbitrariness of images that arise from naming, and the personal memories that lie behind them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904124928259,"sku":"everchanging-7","price":220000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/Y3-1.jpg?v=1775197953"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-14","title":"Moving wood","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is featured in \"Beyond Words, Outside Meanings,\" a three-person exhibition that explores how we typically understand and perceive the world, using words and text as a starting point. This exhibition re-examines the relationship between words and images through expressions that move between seeing and reading, form and meaning. Based on calligraphy, Hisashi Yamamoto engages in a conceptual practice of \"writing the name of an object on the object itself.\" By superimposing the object and the characters that represent its name in the same place, he creates a moment where \"seeing\" and \"reading\" intersect, questioning the mechanism of recognition through language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590971891971,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -14","price":143000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/161.jpg?v=1789193424"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-15","title":"Moving Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition features works from \"Beyond Words, Outside Meaning,\" a three-person exhibition that explores how we usually understand and perceive the world, starting from words and language. 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Takashi Yamamoto, based on calligraphy, conceptually practices \"writing the name of an object on the object itself.\" By superimposing an object and the characters that represent its name in the same place, he creates a moment where \"seeing\" and \"reading\" intersect, questioning the mechanism of recognition through language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590972121347,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -15","price":396000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/154.jpg?v=1789193491"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-16","title":"Moving Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is featured in the exhibition \"Beyond Words, Outside Meaning,\" a three-person show that explores how we usually understand and perceive the world, starting from words and language. Through expressions that oscillate between seeing and reading, form and meaning, this exhibition re-examines the relationship between words and images. Yamamoro Hisashi, based on calligraphy, engages in the conceptual practice of \"writing the name of a thing on the thing itself.\" By superimposing a thing and the characters that name it in the same place, he creates a moment where \"seeing\" and \"reading\" intersect, questioning the mechanism of recognition through words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590972350723,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -16","price":143000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/146.jpg?v=1789194045"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-17","title":"Hue","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is part of \"After Words, Outside Meanings,\" a three-person exhibition that explores how we usually understand and perceive the world, starting from words and letters. 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Hisashi Yamamoto, based on calligraphy, engages in the conceptual practice of \"writing the name of a thing on the thing itself.\" By superimposing the object and the text of its name in the same place, he creates a moment where \"seeing\" and \"reading\" intersect, questioning the mechanism of perception through language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590972842243,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -18","price":198000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/176.jpg?v=1789194292"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-19","title":"Motor show (The Used)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is featured in the three-person exhibition \"Beyond Words, Outside Meaning,\" which explores how we typically understand and perceive the world, starting from words and language. 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