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私は、主に鉄を素材としながら、人間の知覚を超えた現象に着目し、万物の本質についての考察を投影した作品を制作しています。

私は、チャールズ＆レイ・イームズの映像作品、「Powers of Ten」にある場面のように、人間の視覚を超えた拡大と縮小の段階で見えてくる物事に興味があります。私が美術をする目的は、客観性による価値観の開拓であり、作品では、そこへ導くための知覚を生み出す場作りを目指しています。

それを実践するために、ものごとの反応の連鎖、物質と非物質の関係、ミクロからマクロの相似性、個と総体の間に生じる価値観の歪み、宏大無辺の空間と時間といったテーマを切り口として、不可視の世界を可視化する試みにより作品展開をしています。手法は彫刻、インスタレーション、インタラクティブワーク、サイトスペシフィックワークなど、多岐に及びます。

鉄には素材として、あるいは文脈として、魅力的な側面があります。鋼材としては、加工性に優れ、様々な質感を表すことが出来ます。元素としての鉄は、地球の重量の3分の1を占め、中心核で溶けながら磁場を発生させ、酸素を体内に分配するヘモグロビンの構造の中心に元素単位で位置するなど、ミクロとマクロのレベルで生命の営みに最大限に関与し、その事実は、私が求める世界観の理論的、視覚的インスピレーションとなっています。
そのような経緯で、私は鉄を素材として好んで使用し、その背景にある文脈を作品のコンセプトに組み込んでいます。

これまでに実践している仕事としては、鉄板をたたく、曲げる、削るなど、身体の働きかけの痕跡を思考の化石として見立てるプロジェクト、人為を含めた万象の営みとして、安定を図るために振幅を繰り返す天秤の装置や、太古の時間を復元するように森の木々に統一した高さでチョークの色を施すことで水面を表現し、その中を歩き全身で鑑賞するサイトスペシフィックの作品、透かし彫りの金属板を岩に見立てて構成した立体の中で物質の透過を連想しながら鑑賞することが出来るインスタレーションの作品、土、石、鉄粉、炭など、大地に繋がる成分が、観察を促すように透明な樹脂の立体に混在している作品などがあります。

これらのプロジェクトでは、「言葉の解釈」ではなく「感覚による受容」を重視し、既存の価値観からの解放につながる場づくりを試みています。
 

Artist Statement
 
Primarily working with iron my focus is on transcending the viewers perception of the nature of my works while exploring juxtapositions in both the objects and settings where they are installed. The purpose of my art is to develop a sense of value through objectivity.

My work aims to create a place that generates perceptions that lead us to explore things seen in stages of expansion and contraction, drawing inspiration from works of fellow artist and designers such as "Powers of Ten” by Charles and Ray Eames’s in order to put this into practice my works development by visualizing the transient invisible world through themes such as the chain reactions over long intervals. The relationship between the material and immaterial, similarities between micro to macro, the distortions of values that occur between individuals and the total over the vastness of space and time, through sculptures, installations, interactive, and site-specific works.

Iron demonstrates fascinating aspects, from a smooth polished state to the blood red oxidized transformation it endures as it constantly reacts the environment, making structural and contextual transitions. Being highly workable it expresses a multitude of textures and shapes, while as an element, it accounts for one-third of the earth's weight, generating gravitational and magnetic fields and being at the very core of our existence. It is an essential element for life, circulating through our hemoglobin, helping to distribute oxygen throughout the body, an integral part of existence both on a scale from the massive to the micro levels, the theoretical and visual inspiration of a worldview I seek and incorporate into my work.

I view my works as fossils of thought, traces of the body's actions, tapping, bending, and scraping iron sheets, devices of a balance that is repeatedly amplified to achieve stability as an activity. Universal activity as site-specific work in which the viewer experiences the vastness of time and space according to the subject matter and as works in which the earth building blocks such as soil, stone, iron powder and charcoal are integrated into transparent resin solids as if to encourage observation.

In these projects, my emphasis is on "acceptance through the senses" rather than "interpretation of language," in an attempt to create a place that leads to liberation from existing values.

Education:

1990 Research fellow, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)

1989 MFA Tokyo National University of Fine Arts & Music (Tokyo)

1987 BA Tama Art University (Tokyo)

Solo Exhibition:

2023 “Sight & Tactile” (Centpure Gallery II, Higashikawa, Hokkaido)

“FLAT and DYNAMISM 2023” (Park Larch Tree Forest, Moerenuma Park, Hokkaido)

2022 “Yet We Keep Seeking for a Balance 2022” (Court Installation, Tomakomai City Museum, Hokkaido)

2021 “Fossil of Will” (Gallery Monma, Sapporo)

2019 “Plateau” (Restaurant hache, Cross Hotel Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Landscape Will 2019” (Sapporo Cultural Art Community Center, Hokkaido)

2018 “Cloud Rock” (ARTBOX, JR Tower East Concourse, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2017 “Elements of Planet” (Fabulous Wall, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Landscape Will - On the Ground -” (Gallery Monma ANNEX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2016 “Camping Near the Woolen Mountain.” (Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2015 “Trace” (Cross Hotel Entrance Space, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2014 “MIRAGE” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2013 Museum Courtyard Project, ”Landscape Will -2013” (Sapporo Art Museum,

Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Unlimited Life Zone” (Gallery Sou, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2012 “Rie Kawakami Solo Exhibition” (Tokarune, Toyokorochou)

2011 “Shape of Metal Spirit” (Shin Sapporo Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2010 “Shape of Metal Spirit” (Shin Sapporo Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Illogical Movement” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2009 “Living Cube” (The Lab, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.)

2007 “Breathing Earth” (Border Art Residency Exhibition, Olo Gallery, El Paso, TX, U.S.A.)

2006 “Trace of Will” (CAI Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2005 “Earth Energy” (STV Entrance Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2004 “Landscape Will” (Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, U.S.A.)

“Landscape Will” (Temporary Space, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Sabi no Ma” (ArtWarm, Ishikari, Hokkaido)

“For the Future Which Will Be the Past” (Youkobo Art Space, Suginami, Tokyo)

2002 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Ishikari City Hall, Ishikari, Hokkaido)

“Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, U.S.A.)

2001 “traces d'osmose” (Alliance Francaise de Sapporo, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“An Afterimage” (Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1999 “For the Future Which Will Be the Past” (The Sapporo City Document Museum,

Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1994 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Am Art Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1993 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Gallery Yamanote, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1992 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1991 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Daido Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1990 “Rie Kawakami Solo Show” (Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo)

Group Exhibition:

2024 “Work in Progress 11” (Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus, Sapporo)

2023 “Work in Progress 10 Still Waters Run Deep” (Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama

Campus, Sapporo)

“Sarou Houmura 20th Anniversary Exhibition” Sarou Houmura, Sapporo)

“Through the eyes of Hokkaido Artists” Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan, China)

2022 “20th Anniversary Asahikawa Sculpture Festival” (Asahikawa City Sculpture Museum,

Asahikawa, Hokkaido)

“ArtWarm 20th Anniversary Ishikari Art File” (ArtWarm, Ishikari, Hokkaido)

“Signal sauvage” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Forest of Figure” (Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus Sapporo)

”AKARI：Weightless Parallel” (GLASS PYRAMID “HIDAMARI”, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo)

2021 ”Sapporo Art Stage 2021” (Sapporo Cultural Art Community Center, Hokkaido)

“Ikor-no-Mori Meets Art 2021” (Ikor-no-Mori, Tomakomai, Hokkaido)

“Forest of Figure” (Hokusho University Sapporo Maruyama Campus Sapporo)

2020 “Sapporo Musuem Art Fair 2020-21” (Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Ikor-no-Mori Meets Art 2020” (On web, https://www.ikor-meetsart.com/2020)

“Benizakura Park Art Annual 2020” (Benizakura Park, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2018 “Art Planets Grand Prix 2018” (Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2017 “Art Fair Sapporo” (Cross Hotel Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Shelves II” (Orie Art Gallery, Tokyo)

“Aru Natsuno (Some in Summer)” (Kitakara Gallery, Sapporo)

“Tarumae arty 2017” (Tarumae Elementary School, Tomakomai, Hokkaido)

2016 “Naturally Artificial” (Poetica, Naganuma, Hokkaido)

“2016 Daegu Contemporary Art Festival in Gangjeong” (The Arc Square in Gangjeong,

Daegu, Korea)

2015 “Tsunagarou 2015” (Underground Walkway, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Won Won Wonderful!” (Migishi Kotaro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Perceived Art” (Moerenuma Park Glass Pyramid, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Friendly Tokachi” (Kanda Nissho Monumental Museum of Art, Kotogun Shikaoicho)

2014 “Art Fair Sapporo 2014” (Cross Hotel Sapporo, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“New City Art Fair“ (The Songshan Cultural and Create Park, Taipei)

“Sprouting Garden” (Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Conditional Landscape” (Biserica Evangherică Gușterița, Sibiu, România)

2013 “16th Domani” (The Ntional Art Center, Tokyo)

“Tadayasu Sakai and Friends” (Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Kurogane (Iron) and Space” (Gallery Monma, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Naïve Conversation” (Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“BIOTOPE” (Underground Walkway Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2012 “Shiryoukan Wo Art Suru” (Sapporo Document Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Sapporo Odori 500m Museum Exhibition” (500m Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Plus 1 Meets Daegu – Shape of Consciousness” (Artspace Purl, Daegu, Korea)

“Spice of Art” (Gallery Monma, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Space Abstraction II” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Eat Art” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Plus 1 Shape of Consciousness” (Tomato Gallery, Sarugun）

“Intersection of View and Form Vol.5” (Sapporo Art Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“50 Sapporo Artists Exhibition” (Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“SAPPORO ART MAP“ (500m Underground Walkway Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2011 “Abstract Sculpture by 30 Artists” (Hongo Shin Memorial Sculpture Museum, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

“JR Tower Art Planet 2011” (Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“1st Nakayama Touge Mori-no-Bijutsukan Exhibition” (Nakayama Touge Museum,

Kimobetsu)

“Maboroshinoie” (Gallery Monma・ANNEX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Sarou Houmura 7th Anniversery Memorial Exhibition” (Sarou Houmura, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

“Sapporo Art Stage” (Underground Walkway, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Plus 1 Condensation” (Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Abstract/Figuretive Sculpture by 60 Northan Artists” (Hongo Shin Memorial Sculpture

Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Sapporo 50 Artists” (Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2010 “Shiryoukan Wo Art Suru” (Sapporo Document Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Space Abstruction” (Sapporo Tokeidai Gallery, Sapporo)

“Plus1 This Place” (Hongo Shin Memorial Museum of Sculpture, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Kokoromi no Chaji” (Gallery Sou, CAI02, Gallery Monma, Annex, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Kinokuniya Wo Art Suru” (Kinokuniya Book Store, Sapporo, Hokkaido))

“2010 International Sculpture Exhibition” (Miyazaki Airport, Miyazaki, Kyushu)

“Tokeidai Wo Art Suru” (Tokeidai, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2009 “Chair Exhibition by 16 Creators” (Gallery Sou, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“SAG Introduction II” (Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Tarumae Arty 2008” (Kobo Leo, Tomakomai, Hokkaido)

“Intersection of View and Form” (Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Love” (MJ Gallery, Daegu, Korea)

2008 “SAG Introduction” (Gallery Shinajina, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Creative Way” (MJ Gallery, Daegu, Korea)

“Art on the Green Sculpture Invitational” (Kemp Center for the Art, Wichita Falls, TX, U.S.A.)

2007 “Tarumae Arty 2007” (Kobo Leo, Tarumae, Hokkaido)

“Edge” (The Museum of Art, Kochi)

“Store Front Project” (Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.)

“Location One IRP Group Show (Location One, NY, U.S.A.)

“Sapporo Otani Junior College 100th anniversary art exhibition “100 Works of

Otani” (Sapporo Otani Junior College, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2006 “Edge” (The Museum of Art, Kochi)

2005 “Gwanghwamoon International Art Fair” (Sejong Cultural Center Museum, Seoul, Korea)

“Art and Craft in North - Charity for Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake”, (Continental Gallery,

Sapporo)

2004 “A Talk with Art - Five Memories” (Monbetsu Municipal Museum)

“04 Summer Festival, Sea” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2003 “From 03 to 04” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“A MUSE LAND 2004, Big or Small!?” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

“IYOMANTE –open air art festival in Tobetsu 2003” (Tobetsu, Hokkaido)

“Fest Part II” Exhibition (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Time Passage in Water, Silent Sound in Forest“ (Continental Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Art of Sapporo 2003 <Attempt of 19+1>” (Sapporo Citizen Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2002 “Artists Exhibition” (Gallery Tapio, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“From 02 to 03”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“North Sculpture Exhibition 2002” (Sapporo Sculpture Museum, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“The 2nd Window-Arts Exhibition in Shikaoi” (Shopping District, Shikaoi-town, Hokkaido)

“Fest”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo)

“Portraits of a Water Vein: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea” (Hokkaido Museum of

Modern Art, Sapporo / Art Warm, Ishikari)

Tokai University Gallery, Fukido Gallery, Asahikawa, Hokkaido)

2001 “From 01 to 02”, (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo)

“Hokkaido Solid Art” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Woman” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“The 10th International Triennial of Tapestry” (Central Museum of Tapestry, Poland)

“From 00 to 01” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2000 “Northern Creator 2001, Viewpoints of ARTing” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

“American Center Reopening Commemoration Fine Arts” (American Center, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

“Color Part II” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“The 2nd Art Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River, As for the River, from the Green

Wood” (Arishima-Art Gallery, Niseko, Hokkaido)

”Life, Breathing in Art” (Daimaru Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1999 “From 99 to 2000” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Color” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“The 1st Art Exhibition of the Shiribetsu River <-River- Natural Twinkking>” (Arishima Art

Gallery, Niseko, Hokkaido)

“A MUSE LAND '99, SUN & MOON” (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Sensitive Round Fan” (Saitou Gallery, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1997 “Project Exhibition of Hokkaido Art Association, The Investigation of the Space“ (Daimaru

Fujii Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

“Selected Artists in Hokkaido” (Canadian World, Ashibetsu, Hokkaido)

“Hokkaido Art Association 70th Anniversary <New and Powerful Artists>” (Daimaru Fujii

Central, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1994 “52 Forms of Love” (Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1990 “To the Children, Then, to the Eternal Boys & Girls. ’91” (Gallery R-BOX, Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

1989 “THREE STROKE” (Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Urawa, Saitama)

Commission Work:

2016 Wall Installation (Will Side Hokuou Sapporo) 2007 Art and Sol Project (El Paso, Texas) / 2006

Chubetsubashi Park (Asahikawa, Hokkaido) / 1998 Fukoku Seimei Building (Sapporo, Hokkaido) / Ishikari

City General Health Welfare Center (Ishikari, Hokkaido) / 1994 Naganuma Community Park (Naganuma,

Hokkaido) / 1993 Sapporo Municipal Houmei High School for Handicapped Children (Sapporo, Hokkaido) /

1992 Daiichiseimei, Totsuka Kyouiku Center Building (Yokohama, Kanagawa)

Grant and Award:

2021 Hokkaido Cultural Encouragement Prize (Sapporo)

2017 Awarded Second Grand Prix at Art Planet Grand Prix 2018 (Planis Hall, Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2014 Awarded S-AIR AWARD for residency program at Gustarita (Sibiu, Romania)

2012 Sapporo City Cultural Encouragement Prize (Sapporo)

2007 Selected to be a resident of Border Art Residency (NM, U.S.A.)

2006 Grant by Agency for Cultural Affairs to attend Location One IRP in NY, U.S.A. (Japan)

2004 Awarded 11th Annual Asian Artists Fellowships sponsored by the Freeman Foundation (U.S.A)

2003 Awarded full fellowship for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)

2002 Grant from Freeman Foundation for residency program at Vermont Studio Center (U.S.A)

2001 Grant from Ishikari City for participating “10th International Triennial of Tapestry” (Ishikari, Hokkaido)

Additional project and experience:

2020 In charge of performing arts for contemporary dance "HOMO" by Organ Works (KAAT

Kanagawa Arts Theater Large Studio, Yokohama)

2013 “*folding cosmos Moerenuma” Moerenuma Park（Sapporo）

“*folding cosmos Kanazawa” Suzukitaisetsukan（Kanazawa）

“*folding cosmos Takamatsu” Kagawa Museum Bunkan・Kagawakenritsubunkakaikan

(Takamatsu)

2015 “*folding cosmos Helsinki” Annantalo Arts Center (Helsinki、Finland)

“*folding cosmos Villa Savoye” Villa Savoye (Poissy, France)

2012 Lecture at Sapporo Art Labo “Presenting Rie Kawakami by Rie Kawakami” (Toov Café,

Sapporo)

2011 Practical report post, "Efforts to spatial representation by interactive work" for "Hokkaido art

commentary" third issue (Hokkaido)

2010 Wire workshop for children (Shin Hongo Memorial Sapporo Sculpture Museum, Sapporo)

Artist talk (Teijiro Nakahara Memorial Asahikawa Sculpture Museum, Asahikawa)

2009 Lecture at San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA)

2008 Lecture at Irvine High School (El Paso, TX)

Artist talk at Olo Gallery (El Paso, TX)

2007 Open studio organized by Border Art Residency Board of Directors (La Union, NM)

Invited to be a visiting artist at University of Texas El Paso (El Paso, Texas)

Presentation about Location One IRP, organized by Sapporo Artists Gallery (Sapporo,

Hokkaido)

2006 Participated in residency program at Location One International Residency Program (New

York, U.S.A.)

Attended the project of Asahikawa Sculpture Festival at Chubetsubashi Park (Asahikawa,

Hokkaido)

2005 Participated in project for Sapporo Snow Festival (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

Visiting lecturer at Dongduk Women’s University (Seoul, Korea)

2004 Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)

2003 Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)

Lecture for members of Sapporo Sculpture Museum (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

Lecture for public at Sapporo Citizen Gallery (Sapporo)

2002 Writing short essay to a quarterly magazine, “Bijutsu Pen, No.107” (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

Participated in residency program at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, U.S.A)

Lecture for public at Art Warm (Ishikari, Hokkaido)

Artist’s talk at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2001 Presentation about 10th International Triennial of Tapestry (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

Lecture for public at Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist’s and Audience’s Collaboration

(Sapporo, Hokkaido)

1999 Lecture for children at Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo, Hokkaido)

2022 (R4) ~ Assistant Director, S-AIR Secretariat, Specified Nonprofit Organization

2020 (R2) ~ JIA Hokkaido Graduation Design Contest Jury

2018 (H30) ~ Nayoro International Snow Sculpture Tournament Japan Cup Jury

2014 (H26) ~ 2021 Director of S-AIR, a specified non-profit organization

2013 (H25) ~ Hokkaido Art Society Member

2013 (H25) ~ Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido Beauty College (Cultural & Fashion History)

2010 (H22) ~ Part-time lecturer at Sapporo City University

2005 (H17) -2015 (H26) Part-time lecturer at CAI Institute of Contemporary Art

1999 (H11) -Part-time lecturer at Sapporo Otani Junior College

1991 (H3) -2005 (H17) Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido University of Education Sapporo

1991 (H3) -2013 (H24) Part-time lecturer at Hokkaido Art and Design College