KATSUYOSHI INOKUMA: Transition | 猪熊克芳：推移－Transition | Ginza New Gallery, 2023.03.10 - 04.01

“Inokuma Blue”, one of the representative colors of Katsuyoshi Inokuma, is brimmed with deep tranquility. Sure, it is blue, but it contains astonishingly diverse colors and forms inside. For the artist, “form” is neither concrete shape nor materiality: rather, it is an inexhaustible spatial possibility. Paintings are not the result of depiction that the eyes perceive in the real world, but the revelation of porousness, which is usually hidden in the abyss of space-time.
Traces of various colors blurred on the profound surface, exquisite usages of mediums which expand spatial reality, and absolute unique matières create countless flexible images of “once-in-a-lifetime encounter” in response to the viewer’s unconscious mind. In this exhibition, the work from his debut period until today will be brought together in order that the viewers can trace the history of colors and forms, how they have intersected and shifted. Besides, the new frontier of “Inokuma Blue”, which incorporates the ultimate time-axis of “cardinal arrest” into a big canvas, will be open to the public.

静謐さを深くたたえた「イノクマ・ブルー」。確かに「ブルー」には違いないが、それが内包する色彩とフォルムは驚くほど多彩だ。猪熊にとって「フォルム」とは具体的なカタチでも物質でもなく、無尽蔵に拡がる空間の可能性。描くことは、眼に見えるものに忠実に仕えることではなく、時空の狭間に潜む多孔性をあぶり出すこと。
深淵な表層に滲むさまざまな色彩の痕跡、空間をよりリアルに押し拡げる精巧なメディウム遣い、ユニークそのものと言える絵肌は、観る者の心理と溶け合うことで「一期一会」の自在な像を結んでゆく。今展では、デビューから現在まで、作家の色彩とフォルムがどのように交錯し、推移してきたかを追う。さらに、心電図の動きという究極の時間軸を落とし込んだイノクマ・ブルーの新境地も開示する。