Artist
Artist
HASHIGUCHI Lintalow
Japan
anima harmonizer
anima harmonizerは「たましいを調和し、奏でる者」という意味を込めた造語であり、空想上の、未知のテクノロジーによる「塗料から生まれた生き物のような巨大な音響装置」の名前である。
それを表すにあたり、象形文字の前の段階として「生起文字」「しるし生命体」と言う考えを設定した。それは単純かつ反復性を持った方法でありながら、文字のように固定した形を持たない表記によって生み出される。
巨大な音響装置からは、「見えない音を見えるために生み出された”文字”」が発生する。
一音一音が、生き物のような身体的な姿として現れ、互いに繋がり、空間で振動する。文字を媒介にして飛び出すメッセージが空間にエネルギーを生み出す。
Profile
Born in 1985. He started writing calligraphy in 2004, influenced by punk rock and the post-war avant-garde art movement, as well as calligrapher INOUE Yuichi's idea that calligraphy is an art for all people. He writes words that flash across his mind daily in a notebook, and around 2016 he started writing short English phrases and coined words, such as song titles. Understanding the alphabet as ‘something that disappears into speech after being broken down into phonemes, his expression is like a mass of letters colliding with each other, but behind this is an ancient Japanese sense of space and language. The style of his work is reminiscent of punk, in which writing is done by towels at once. In confronting the letters that seem to pop out of the paint contained in the towel, he comes to the idea of letters as living creatures born from paint. He looks at the power of letters to create a sense of communication among people across the ages and approaches calligraphy from the perspective of signs and humanity.
Credits
Sponsored by: AICHI METAL Co.
Construction: AICHI METAL Co. , Sugioka Construction Co.
Cooperation: Gallery NAO MASAKI
