24/03/2025
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本日より”Fragments4 - human beings”展が始まりました。展覧会に寄せて、横田茂によるテキストを紹介します。
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ギャラリーに携わってから50年余り、その当初から個々の作家の展覧会を離れ、二つの自立した展示を思い描いていた。
その一つは書籍、版画などの複数制作物や印刷一般に関わる〈Printed Matter〉、また一方は「表現」と称される言葉が生まれる以前の人間の創造営為に視点を置いた〈Fragment〉。
前者は展覧の数を重ね、その展開は東京パブリッシングハウス（TPH）の活動となり、現在はYOKOTA TOKYOの元で名称、活動内容も変わらずに引き継がれている。他方、〈Fragment〉については時宜通り、断片的な展示を重ねた上、その最終項は「人間」と朧げな思いを抱きつつ、過去3回の展示を実現したのみで、この気宇壮大な想いだけが募り現在に至ってしまった。
この永い余白の時間、一人また一人と私の元に人像が訪ね集まってきた。壮大な想いはさておき、ともあれ時代を共にする五人の作家と一同に会するAgoraを設けることとした。
時空を超え人間自身に心を寄せ続ける人々へのオマージュとして……。
横田 茂
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For over 50 years since becoming involved with the gallery, I had envisioned two independent exhibitions beyond individual artist shows from the very beginning. One was “Printed Matter,” dealing with multiple productions such as books and prints, and printing in general; the other was “Fragment,” focusing on human creative endeavors before the term “expression” came into being. The former has accumulated numerous exhibitions, evolving into the activities of Tokyo Publishing House (TPH), and is now carried on under YOKOTA TOKYO, maintaining both its name and content unchanged. As for “Fragment,” while we have held fragmentary exhibitions as appropriate, and with the vague notion of “human” as its final element, we have only realized three exhibitions thus far, leaving this grand vision merely growing stronger until the present.
During this long blank period, people have gathered at my door one after another. Setting aside the grand vision, we decided to establish an Agora where five artists who share this era could come together.
As an homage to those who continue to hold humanity close to their hearts across time and space...
Shigeru Yokota
(translated by Abraham David Christian)
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“Fragments 4 - human beings”
2025.03.24- 04.18
https://yokotatokyo.com/index.html
Images:
Abraham David Christian 《Untitled》 1979
“Flat Idol” South Western Anatolia, 3000 B.C.
“Triangle Head” Western Anatolia, 3000 B.C.
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