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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":"topographyofcalligraphy-1","title":"滝","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work was exhibited at the ARTSHODO exhibition \"Topography of Calligraphy.\" Through conceptual techniques such as naming objects, the artist reexamines the relationship between language and vision, and between meaning and form. 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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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Naoshi Yamamoto, based on calligraphy, carries out 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 language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590972547331,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -17","price":220000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/169.jpg?v=1789194105"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-18","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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Takashi Yamamoto, based on calligraphy, engages in the conceptual practice of \"writing the name of an object on the object itself.\" By superimposing an object 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 language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590973071619,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -23","price":198000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/used7_3.jpg?v=1789198414"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-24","title":"Motor Show (VINTAGE CHAOS SERIES)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work is featured in the exhibition \"Beyond Words, Outside Meaning,\" a three-person show that explores how we understand and perceive the world, starting from words and letters. 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Naoshi Yamamoto, based on calligraphy, carries out a conceptual practice of \"writing the name of a thing on the thing 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 words.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"山本尚志","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49590973333763,"sku":"afterwords-beyondmeaning -24","price":198000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/7119\/6163\/files\/chaos3_1.jpg?v=1789197181"},{"product_id":"afterwords-beyondmeaning-25","title":"Motor Show (VINTAGE CHAOS SERIES)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis exhibition features works from \"Beyond Words, Outside Meaning,\" a three-person show that explores how we typically understand and perceive the world, using words and characters as a starting point. 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