ROOM 12　廣瀬 智央 / SATOSHI HIROSE

1963年東京生まれ。現在、ミラノと東京を拠点に活動。多摩美術大学卒業後にイタリア政府給費奨学生として渡伊。ポーラアート財団の研究奨学金を得てミラノ・ブレラ美術アカデミーを修了。2008年には、文化庁在外研修員としてニューヨークに滞在。水戸芸術館、広島市現代美術館、イタリアのペッチ現代美術館、ボローニャ近代美術館、オーストラリアのシドニー現代美術館など世界各地で展覧会多数参加。2020年にアーツ前橋で個展「廣瀬智央　地球はレモンのように青い」を開催した。

廣瀬は、豆やパスタをはじめ、身の回りの日常の素材を使い、豊かさと貧しさ、人工と自然、ミクロをマクロなど相反する要素を共存させる詩的な表現で知られる。また、嗅覚や味覚など、視覚以外の感覚に訴える作品や、異なる民族や文化間に潜む共通領域や差異、日常生活の小さな事象の豊かさに触れる作品を発表し続け、国内外で高い評価を受けている。廊下に設置された《前橋市》は、前橋市の現在の形に切り抜かれた鉄板が反転されて置かれている。裏返すという単純な行為だが、地球の裏側にいることを想起させ、前橋市が地球を支えるようなユニークな視点を生み出している。《ある夜の旅》は、廣瀬が15年ほどかけて集めた雑誌等の写真から、日の出や日没など、日の移り変わりのイメージを選び、その紙面をデジタルカメラにて再撮影する。撮影された画像は、正方形に切り取られ、日光写真のように青色のモノトーンに加工され、豊かな色調が再現されるピュアピグメントプリントでまるでビロードのような肌触りをもって印刷される。焦点のずれたあいまいなイメージは、昼と夜、現実とフィクションの境界を溶かし、いつか訪れた街や夢でみた風景を喚起させる。また、窓からはアーツ前橋の屋上看板を使った作品を見ることができる。ミラノ在住の廣瀬と前橋の母子生活支援施設の児童が、お互いの見ている空を撮影し、〈空の交換日記〉をすることで生まれた。現在も「のぞみの家」の母子たちと19年続くプロジェクトを継続している。

Satoshi Hirose was born in Tokyo in 1963. He is currently based in Milan and Tokyo. After graduating from Tama Art University, he received a scholarship from the Italian government and moved to Italy. He completed his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan with a research grant from the Pola Art Foundation. In 2008, he lived in New York as an overseas trainee with Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs. He has exhibited in many major museums, including Art Tower Mito, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, the Bologna Modern Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney. In 2020, he held the solo exhibition HIROSE Satoshi: The Earth is Blue Like a Lemon at Arts Maebashi.

Hirose is known for using everyday objects such as beans and pasta as materials for poetic representation of contradictory yet coexisting elements, such as wealth and poverty, the artificial and the natural, and micro and macro.
He has received high praise within Japan and around the world for the way his work consistently addresses the richness within daily life’s trivialities and the latent commonalities and differences between ethnicities and cultures. His work is also notable for its frequent appeal to senses other than the visual, such as smell and taste.
The work installed in this corridor, Maebashi City, is a metal plate cut in the shape of Maebashi city as it is today and then reversed. The act of reversal is a simple one, but it evokes the idea of being on the other side of the globe, creating a unique perspective from which Maebashi supports the Earth.

For One night journey, Hirose chose images of the transition of the day, such as sunrises or sunsets, from archives of magazines he has collected over the past fifteen years, and photographed the pages with a digital camera. The photographs were cut into squares, retouched into blue monotone like cyanotypes, then printed in pure pigment print, which preserves rich colours and imparts a velvet-like texture. The resulting ambiguous, out-of-focus images blur the border between day and night, real and fiction, recalling cities visited in the past or scenery from a dream.
Your sky, My sky: sky project for Arts Maebashi uses the rooftop sign of Arts Maebashi, which can be seen through the window. By photographing the skies above them, Milan-based Hirose and children from maternal and child living support facilities in Maebashi created a shared diary of the sky.Your sky, My sky is an ongoing project which has been active for 19 years in collaboration with the mothers and children of House of Hope.