ロンドンを本拠として活躍する芸術家のマガリ・ロイスが、米国の美術専門誌、ARTFORUM (March 2016)で、彼女のベスト10を発表した。本人とは面識はないのだが、その2番目に五十嵐威暢のアルミニウム・アルファベット彫刻(1983)を選んでいる。
現在、世界が注目するアーティストなので嬉しい。
Renowned artist Magali Royce, based in London, revealed her top 10 picks in the art magazine ARTFORUM (March 2016). Although I haven’t personally met her, I am thrilled to learn that she selected Itakatsu Igarashi’s aluminum alphabet sculpture (1983) as her second choice.
It’s gratifying to receive recognition from an artist who is currently capturing the world’s attention.
Magali Reus
London-based artist Magali Reus is the recipient of the 2015 Prix de Rome for the visual arts. Her work has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at SculptureCenter in New York, the Hepworth Wakefield in West Yorkshire, UK, and the Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, Germany.
TAKENOBU IGARASHI, “ALUMINUM ALPHABET,” 1983
The Japanese graphic designer is a contemporary proponent of the axonometric alphabet, used in the early twentieth century by members of De Stijl and the Suprematists alike. In the 1980s, he translated hand-drawn typographic forms into brushed-aluminum objects studded with hardware that, while rigorously precise, feature mysterious interplays of shadow and form. A wonderful example of this was the sculpture he produced in 1990 for Nike’s Air Max 180 shoe campaign, though it was only ever shown as a photograph. Igarashi’s works from the ’80s are fetishistic and tender, but they harbor at their core the futurist aspirations of a culture obsessed with the possibilities of robotics.