Phangutic
山岡敏明｜ファングチック
Gallery talk 9.13sat 17:00-
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出現を意味するphanに、アーティスト山岡敏明が提唱する概念、GUTIC/グチックを組み合わせた造語 -phangutic- 。
同じ語源を持つphenomenon/現象から「現グチック」、もしくはphantom/幽霊、fantasy/幻想を参照して「幻グチック」とでも訳せるだろうか。
グチックとは、現実には存在しない具象的でかつ抽象的な、しかしそのどちらでもない原初的で未分化なカタチのことだ。
山岡の手により出現したそれらのカタチには、妄想の産物とは言い切れない強固なリアリティがあり、じっと眺めていると人の顔や臓器、植物や微生物の一種のようにも見えてくる。
これまでひとつの完結したショウとして展覧会を構成することの多かった山岡だが、今回は絵画、写真、映像を織り交た即興性の強い展示を試みる。そうすることで、繰り返し描きつづけたある瞬間に唯一無二のカタチが出現するという、「現象としてのグチック」に肉薄することができるかもしれない。さらに、その時々の展覧会趣旨にフィットせず発表されなかった「幻のグチック」も初登場し、謎に満ちたグチックの総体がまたひとつ明らかになるだろう。
宮下忠也( 本展アドバイザー/ フリーランス・アートディレクター)
[English Statement]
-Phangutic- is a neologism combining "phan," a prefix signifying appearance, with "GUTIC," the concept proposed by artist Toshiaki Yamaoka. Sharing the same etymological root as "phenomenon," it could be translated as "Phenomenal-GUTIC." Or perhaps, referencing "phantom" or "fantasy," it might be rendered as "Phantasmal-GUTIC."
GUTIC refers to primordial, undifferentiated forms that do not exist in reality. They are concrete yet abstract, while belonging to neither category entirely.
The forms that have emerged through Yamaoka’s hands possess a solid reality that cannot be dismissed simply as products of delusion. As you gaze at them, they begin to resemble human faces, organs, plants, or species of microorganisms.
While Yamaoka has often composed his exhibitions as single, self-contained shows in the past, this time he attempts an exhibition with a strong improvisational nature, interweaving painting, photography, and video. By doing so, we may be able to close in on "GUTIC as a phenomenon"—the moment when a one-of-a-kind form emerges from the act of repetitive drawing. Furthermore, "Phantom GUTIC" works—pieces that were never presented because they did not fit the themes of previous exhibitions—will be unveiled for the first time. Another layer of the mysterious whole of GUTIC is sure to be revealed.
Miyashita Tadaya (Exhibition Advisor / Freelance Art Director)