When this time of the year comes, I display ‘Circle’ by Yutaka Shimomura.

A polished iron plate is placed onto a cloth to allow it to rust naturally, and to transfer the rust to the cloth. The blue is created by combining the iron with a delicate amount of rust. Allegedly, the sea was the main inspiration for the blue colour. It is believed that the blue of the sea is composed through the link between iron within the sea water, and a small number of natural elements. The artist achieves the variation of blue based on the duration over which rust transfers to the cloth, and temperature or humidity.

‘The flux of time from past to present and future. I feel that, on an unconscious level, there is a common memory which still remains, and which every human being has shared since ancient time. The origin of life – the sea, the moon, the sun, and the universe. The feeling of awe and worship towards this nature is a fragment of the shared memory. I aim to make works which evoke such memories’ says Shimomura.

While the season is changing from summer to autumn, the natural world is quietly becoming clearer as if it is retuning to the soil.
I look forward to making a dialogue with the work – just like displaying the moon of the night sky in the Tokonoma alcove.

YUTAKA SHIMOMURA

1948　Born in Tokyo
1970　Graduated from Nihon University,the Department of Mathematics

Solo Exhibition
～2009　Maison Franco-Japonaise Galerie,Tokyo / Gallery MUKYO,Tokyo / Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum Berlin,Berlin / HARMAKHIS,Brussels / GALERIE HEXAGONE,Aachen / Art space RASHINBAN,Tokyo / Art Museum SUDOU,Tokyo / GALLERY Ginza KYUBI,Tokyo / GALLERY Center Point,Tokyo / GALLERY Ginza SURUGADAI,Tokyo
2010　Yakushiji AMRIT,Nara / Galerie ICON,Berlin / Gallery KAIGADO,Tokyo
2011　ENISHI, Berlin / Gallery KAIGADO,Tokyo / Gallery So,Tokyo
2012　Gallery Funaasobi
2013　Gallery KAIGADO,Tokyo
2014　Galerie ICON,Berlin
2015　KANEKO ART TOKYO / t-gallery
2017　t-gallery