MIYAKE Atsuhiro's column "The Rich Expansion of Existence - In Response to Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025, Chapter 2: Reflections on People and Life" has been published.
MIYAKE Atsuhiro (Co-director of the curatorial collective "HB.") has published a column entitled "The Rich Expansion of Existence - In Response to Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025, Chapter 2: Reflections on People and Life."
This column is written by Miyake, who is in charge of coordinating " Reshaped Reality: 50 Years of Hyperrealist Sculpture, " and discusses the exhibition and its works from his unique perspective. Please read it.
Exhibition view: photo by Kohei Matsumura
MIYAKE Atsuhiro
(Co-director of the curatorial collective "HB.")
At the back of the venue, there is a woman slumped against the wall. The thought of what happened to her crosses your mind for a moment, but then you remember that this is an exhibition of hyperrealist sculptures. The thought then crosses your mind that the woman could be a work of art, or that she could be a living person. At this point, like Schrödinger's cat1 , two realities exist in the viewer's mind.
Daniel Furman, Caroline (2014)
Photo by Atsuhiro Miyake
"Reshaped Reality: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Sculpture," currently being held at Osaka Culturarium Tempozan, is the "Chapter 2: Reflections on People and Life" exhibition of the Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025. Through 39 works by 27 artists, the exhibition aims to provide an overview of the history of hyperrealism, which is said to have begun in the late 1960s and early 1970s, up to the present day.
He is also a pioneer of this movement...
MIYAKE Atsuhiro's column "The Rich Expansion of Existence - In Response to Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival 2025, Chapter 2: Reflections on People and Life"
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