余白の白は弁当の白いご飯と同じ白か
子供の頃、家の増築工事に来ていた大工の手弁当が、四角い大きな弁当箱に白いご飯を一杯に詰め、そこに魚肉ソーセージを一本丸ごとご飯の真ん中にドーンと埋めただけなのを見て、その簡易さと潔さに驚き、白いご飯とソーセージの桃色の単純で力強い構成がトラウマのように未だに記憶に残っている。
展示に向けた制作が進まず苦しい最中に唐突にあの大工の弁当が頭に浮かんだことから、制作中に様々に弁当の妄想が始まり、画面の余白と弁当の白いご飯が重なってしまい、弁当になぞらえた作品ばかり作っている気がしてしょうがない。弁当を手掛かりに作った作品の展示ではないのだが。
（広瀬良二）
金柑画廊は、10月14日（土）から11月5日（日）まで、広瀬良二「余白の白は弁当の白いご飯と同じ白か」を開催いたします。広瀬良二は、古い素材を、近年は特に紙を支持体にした平面作品の制作を続けています。作品制作に携わる者にとって、作品空間の余白について思考することは逃れることができない永遠のテーマだと思います。描かれた、或いは手を加えたところも余白となり得るのかどうか。お弁当の白いご飯と余白が重なり、そこに妄執してしまう広瀬良二の”答え”（問いかけなのかもしれません）が、今回の展示に現れるかどうか、本人にも与り知らぬものなのかもしれません。この機会にご高覧ください。
（太田京子／金柑画廊）
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Thought About White: Rice in Bento = A Space or Not?
When I was a child, a carpenter was coming to build an addition to our house with his own lunch. One day, I saw his large square bento box filled with white rice and a whole fish sausage buried in the middle of the rice. I was amazed at the simplicity and decisiveness of this, and the simple, strong, peach-colored composition of white rice and sausage still remains in my memory like a trauma. In the midst of my difficult work for this exhibition, that carpenter's Bento box suddenly popped into my head, and I began to fantasize about Bento boxes in various ways during production, and the white rice of the Bento box overlapped with the blank space on the paper, and I can't help but feel like I'm creating only works that are likened to Bento boxes. Actually, it is not an exhibition of artwork created with a Bento box as a clue, though.
(Hirose Ryoji)
Kinkan Gallery is pleased to present Hirose Ryoji's "Thought About White: Rice in Bento = A Space or Not?" from October 14 to November 5. Hirose continues to work with old materials, and in recent years, paper in particular, as his support material. For those who are involved in the creation of artworks, thinking about the blank spaces in a work is an eternal theme that cannot be escaped. His title draws me to think about whether painted or altered areas could also be blank spaces. Whether Hirose's "answer" (or perhaps a question) to his obsession with the overlapping image of the white rice in the Bento box and the blank space will appear in this exhibition is something that may be unpredictable even to him. Please take this opportunity to view the exhibition.
(Ota Kyoko, Kinkan Gallery)
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*Sanitizing sprays are placed at the entrance, and air is changed periodically.
*Information on events will be posted on the web and SNS.
※除菌スプレーを入り口に設置し、定期的な空気の入れ替えなど実施しております。
