須田悦弘 [Link]
Yoshihiro Suda

同じく、V&Aの展示よりメモ。
白い壁でつくられた狭い空間にある須田さんの作品。
中学生の美術工芸の彫刻をつくる授業で、
木で葉っぱを彫ったのを思い出しました。
植物の彫刻。実際よりやや大きめ。
どこで展示する時もその土地でみられる植物を
モチーフにするそうです。
今回のこの植物はMagnolia(木蓮・コブシ)かな。たぶん。
日本では3月末に街中で白や紫の花がちらほらみられますが、
たしかイギリスでは4月半ばにみた記憶があります。
　> Yoshihiro Suda is based in Tokyo.
　> He creates hyper-realistic flowers and weeds from wood.
　> He sets himself the task of making each new work more lifelike than the last.
　> Painstakingly carving and painting each piece,
　> using traditional Japanese tools,
　> he may take many days to complete a single petal or leaf.
　> Suda only starts to make his works once
　> he has considered the space they will be shown in.
　> He chooses native plants commonly found
　> in the city where his work will be exhibited.
　> He situates his pieces in surprising places,
　> growing unexpectedly out of pristine gallery walls
　> and pushing up out of forgotten corners.
　> His interventions reveal the beauty in the simple and apparently unconsidered.
　> ‘Simply, I want to know how detailed I can make it,
　> how real I can make it. This is an old-fashioned way of thinking,
　> to make something so naturalistic that it looks like the original.
　> It is not the fashion now, to observe something and make it very skilfully,
　> the idea itself is very deep. To make this kind of copy,
　> the technique is very important.
　> There are no goals as such, just that I can make it better next time.’
参考：
nmp net gallery －須田悦弘 [Link]
須田悦弘 – 関心空間 [Link]
須田悦弘雑草 [Link]
須田 悦弘 クローズアップ: デイズドエキサイト：DAZEDExcite > DAZED [Link]
TAB イベント – 須田悦弘 展 [Link]
ART遊覧: 須田悦弘展 [Link]