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]