Born

KeizoMatsui Born Exhibition

松井桂三は、世界でまだ誰も成し遂げられていない創造物を長きに渡り模索していた。そのテーマは、パラドックス「矛盾」を超えていくこと。人間という種が生きていくことを正当化する時に生じる「矛盾」。自らの足で歩き目撃した世界の貧困・差別・紛争…。それぞれに悲しみの事情を抱え、争い殺し合う民族。彼らの事情を知るほどに、かける言葉を失っていく。松井はそれらの「矛盾」を飲み込んだ。その葛藤は時を経て、ある挑戦に辿り着く。「ガラス」と「陶器」似て非なる素材同士に、かつての争い合う人々の矛盾をみた。ガラスと陶器の「融合」に、人間が未だ越えることが出来ない領域へ向かう「希望」を見出した。悲願のチャレンジは、2017年遂に実を結んだ。超えられないものを越えようとしてきた人間の可能性の証明である。

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Keizo Matsui spent a long time in search of a creative work that had yet to be accomplished. The theme of this work was overcoming paradox; the paradoxes that arise when the human species attempts to justify their reasons for living. He went out into the world, and personally witnessed its poverty, discrimination, and strife. Ethnic groups, each with their own tragic set of circumstances, fighting and killing one another. The more he learned about their unique circumstances, the less he felt able to speak about the matter. Matsui took in each of their paradoxes, and over time his internal conflict led to him undertaking this challenge. In glass and ceramic, two materials that are similar yet opposed, he saw the paradoxes of the peoples who had conflicted with one another. In the fusion of glass and ceramic, he was able to see hope; hope brought about by working towards something man had yet to accomplish. His aspirations were finally realized in 2017, proving humans have the potential to achieve something that was once unachievable.

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