Takuya Ikezaki
Period: 2015/07/20 ~ 2015/10/31
Nation: Japan
Genre: Installation art
Born on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima, lives and works in Tokyo. In 2005, I graduated from Musashino Art University, Tokyo, with a BA in Fine Art (oil painting). Between 2008 and 2010, I attended classes in the Department of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
My works in various media, from drawing and installation to photography, and creates works out of familiar things or phenomena and ready-made objects by reconstructing their meanings.
Exhibitions include “The Earthy Paradise, Vol. 2: A new horizon for everyday life and art” (Solo show) at Gallery αM, Tokyo (2013), “4 artists show–painting” at ShugoArts, Tokyo (2010) and “Skin & Map: the study of body and sense by four artists” (Selected from the Curatorial Exhibition Competition(Art space) of Aichi Triennale 2010) at Aichi Arts Center.
In my practice, I use everyday objects in order to transform my personal memory, time, and view of the world, into certain scenes or situations, to which the viewer's memory would also be connected. I play with objects with my hands to create accidental creases, lines, and forms. When the objects are put together, these features start to link to each other, as if on their own will, to weave up some sort of complicated "routes" beyond the objects' boundaries.
These "routes" then build up multiple parallel worlds where the everyday objects gain different temporalities and tell new stories, beyond their normal usages and functions, which we would never encounter otherwise.
