Artist
Artist
HASHIGUCHI Lintalow
Japan
anima harmonizer
The term anima harmonizer is a coined word meaning "one who harmonizes and plays the soul." It is the name of an imaginary, unknown-technology-based giant sound device, like a living creature born from paint.
To conceptualize this idea, I introduced the notion of biogenic letters or sign life forms—a stage preceding hieroglyphs. This form of notation, while simple and repetitive, does not have a fixed shape like conventional writing.
From this massive sound device, letters emerge—symbols created to make invisible sounds visible. Each sound takes on a physical, organic form, intertwining with others and vibrating through space. The messages that burst forth through these letters generate energy, filling the environment with their resonance.
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
[Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival / EXPO PUBLIC ART]
Partner City
Matsubara City
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