- Exhibition
Co-jin Collection No.8 The Touch of Expression
finished
Venue：art space co-jin
Co-jin Collection is an annual exhibition which is co-jin staff will showcase expressions that caught our attention from the “Kyoto Totteoki no Geijutsusai”.This year’s exhibition, the eighth in the series, introduced three artists under the theme of “the Touch of Expression”.
To look at the works of art is to come into contact with the rich sense of joy and commitment of the creators. However, it is difficult to truly understand each other’s senses, just as it is impossible to assert that the redness of red is the same for everyone. Therefore, this exhibition is called the sensations contained in the works “Tezawari,” and aimed to provide visitors with various perspectives of the works and a deeper appreciation experience through the creation of a workshop space where one could experience the actual works.
Schedule
2024-10-16（wed）–12-22（sun）
Closed on Monday and Tuesday
10:00-18:00
Venue
art space co-jin
Works
Profile
KORIYAMA Hiroaki
Born in 1957. Lives in Kameoka City.
Affiliation Village Ren
He studied art professionally while he was a student and also worked as a lecturer at a university after graduation. Currently, he attends Village Ren, where he creates artwork while working as a cook. He usually carves wood, but at Village Ren he has been working on drawings since 2023. After using a variety of drawing materials, including pigments and pens, he has finally settled on colored pencils. He likes the fact that unlike brushes, pencils allow him to continually draw without stopping.
He views the change in his own production style as positive, and continues his expressive activities, looking forward to encountering different people than he did yesterday through his drawings. In recent years, he has been working on drawings with an interest in the shapes created by the overlapping of random lines.
TAKANISHI Isamu
Born in 1970. Lives in Kyotanabe City.
Affiliation Tanabe-midorinokaze-workshop
In 2023, he began making paste-up works using sock scraps for public exhibitions. He developed the method by himself of unraveling the scraps until they become thread-like. He continues to create works regardless of whether they are exhibited or not, and it takes him six months to a year to complete a single piece of work because he uses water-soluble bond to attach them bit by bit to a sheet of drawing paper. In addition to pasted pictures, he also creates colored pictures with bold colors that go beyond the outlines, and ceramic works formed by piling up small rounded grains of clay. Although it is difficult to grasp the artist's true feelings as he rarely speaks, his works convey his commitment to their creation.
MAKI Atsuko
Born in 1980, Lives in Nagaokakyo City
Affiliation：Otokuni Wakatake-en
After graduating from junior high school, she attended a Japanese and Western clothing vocational school. She still loves sewing machines and creates embroideries at Otokuni-Wakatake-en, making full use of consumer sewing machines. MAKI's embroidery is called “NUI NUI,” which is characterized by using different colors for the upper and lower threads, layering the embroidery so that it is thick and thicker, and making use of fraying and tangling as they occur.
“NUI NUI” is exhibited as artwork at public exhibitions, and is also used in products such as bags and walnut buttons made at the facility. Each bag is designed to match the “NUI NUI,” and the scraps are sewn together by the staff to create patchwork pieces. This kind of re-composition can be called co-creation with the staff.