I am exploring ways to exist as a player in the Artworld even without income from selling works or exhibition fees.
I want to become a part of art history and attempt to renew it. Additionally, I want to engrave a dissenting voice against the way our society and the world currently exist into this world, and ensure that it exists no matter how small it may be.
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後藤 拓朗(ごとう たくろう)
1982年山形市生まれ。東北芸術工科大学洋画コースで絵画を学ぶ。
活動拠点である山形県内の廃集落や廃屋を描いた風景画や、近代土木・産業遺構を背景に西洋彫刻を模したポーズをとる人物を描いた油彩画などを制作。西洋に憧れ模倣しながらも、西洋人とはまるで異なる身体をもつ現代日本人が、かつて支配下に置いていた自然界から領土を侵食・奪還されている最前線の状況を描く。郷土を郷愁や異国情緒を誘う理想郷としてではなく、経済の衰退や自然環境の変化によって変容を強いられ翻弄されるものとして捉え直す制作を通じて、風景画の更新を試みる。
― 経歴等 ―
|2022年
「絵画、見える世界が変わる」Kosyau(長井市)
「山形ビエンナーレ2022」文翔館(山形市)
|2021年
「giinika創刊記念展・ザワザワする作家たち」slowjam(山形市)
「余の光/Light of My World」旧銀鈴ビル(福知山市)
「滅びる集落」長井市民文化会館(長井市)
|2020年
「MOLE GALLERY / MOLE COLLECTION 2020」Cyg art gallery(盛岡市)
「山形ビエンナーレ2020」東北芸術工科大学(山形市)
「山形 美の鉱脈 明治から令和へ」山形美術館(山形市)
|2019年
「山形藝術界隈展一一 | オールスター展」GALVANIZE gallery(石巻市)
「山形藝術界隈展一二 | reborn-art festival 2019」旧柏屋(石巻市)
「山形藝術界隈展一三|リボーン終わってちょっと一息」Cyg art gallery(盛岡市)
|2018年
「山形藝術界隈本舗」ミサワクラス・ガレージ(山形市)
「山形藝術界隈展〇五、〇五.五」GALVANIZE gallery(石巻市)
「Multi shutter/マルチシャッター」EUKARYOTE(東京)
「現代山形考」東北芸術工科大学7階ギャラリー(山形市)
「帰ってきたMOLE GALLERY」GALVANIZE gallery(石巻市)
|2017年
「間-空-間(inter-space):日常と非日常の隣接」キュレーション岡部信幸。KUGURU(山形市)
「第 20 回岡本太郎現代芸術賞」川崎市岡本太郎現代美術館(川崎市)
「山形藝術界隈展〇一」ミサワクラス(山形市)
「山形藝術界隈展〇二」白鷹町文化交流センターあゆーむ(白鷹町)
「ISETANニューアーティスト・ディスプレイ 山形藝術界隈展〇三」新宿ISETAN5F(東京都)
「山形藝術界隈展〇四」鶴岡アートフォーラム(鶴岡市)
|2016年
「MOLE革命」MOLE GALLERY(山形市)
「NightVoice」ミサワクラス(山形市)
「芸術界隈」御殿堰(山形市)
「東北画は可能か?ー地方之国現代美術館」東北芸術工科大学(山形市)
「カオス*ラウンジ新芸術祭 2016『地獄の門』」菩提院等(いわき市)
― 掲載等 ―
giinika(ジーニカ)(2021年2月創刊号)
美術手帖(2016年12月号)
アート・トップ(2008年11月号)
Takuro Goto
Born in Yamagata city, Yamagata Prefecture in 1982.
Having graduated with a bachelor's degree in Western painting, Art Department, Tohoku University of Art and Design.
I make an oil painting depicting the landscape of abandoned village or mountain forest in Yamagata Prefecture and the physical activity performed there.
In landscape painting, I paint a picture of an abandoned village and abandoned house as a symbolic representation of the decline of Japan and a local area that is inevitably forced to change by political policy.
On the other hand, I paint a picture of a Man who pose like ancient Greek sculptures and fashion models in abandoned villages and mountain forests.
It depicts the front-line situation where a modern Japanese who imitates the West, but has a body far from Westerners, has eroded and recaptured the territory from the natural world once under control.
Through this work, I explore today’s landscape painting of hometowns should be. Not nostalgia, exoticism or utopia.
|2022
"Painting, the world I see changes." Kosyau (Nagai city)
"Yamagata biennale 2020" Bunsyokan museum (Yamagata)
|2021
"'giinika' first issue commemorative exhibition 'Artists who zawazawa.'" slowjam (Yamagata)
"Light of My World" Former Ginrin Building (Fukuchiyama)
"A ruined village" Nagai civic hall (Nagai)
|2020
"MOLE GALLERY / MOLE COLLECTION 2020" Cyg art gallery (Morioka)
"Yamagata biennale 2020" Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata)
"Yamagata Mining "Yamagata Art Museum (Yamagata)
|2019
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 11 | All Stars" GALVANIZE gallery (Miyagi)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 12 | reborn-art festival 2019" Former Kashiwa-ya (Miyagi)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 13 | A short break after the reborn-art festival" Cyg art gallery (Morioka)
|2018
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Honpo Exhibition" Misawa Class Garage (Yamagata)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 05 / 05.5" GALVANIZE gallery (Miyagi)
"Multi shutter" EUKARYOTE (Tokyo)
"Contemporary Yamagata Consideration" Tohoku University of Art and Design 7F Gallery (Yamagata)
"Come back MOLE GALLERY" GALVANIZE gallery (Ishinomaki)
|2017
"Inter-space : ordinary and extraordinary adjacency" curated by Nobuyuki Okabe. KUGURU (Yamagata)
"20th Taro Okamoto Contemporary Art Award" Kawasaki City Taro Okamoto Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanagawa)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 01" Misawa Class (Yamagata)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 02" Shirataka Cultural Exchange Center Ayumu (Yamagata)
"ISETAN New Artist Display / Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 03" Shinjuku ISETAN 5F (Tokyo)
"Yamagata Gijutsu_kaiwai Exhibition 04" Tsuruoka Art Forum (Yamagata)
|2016
"MOLE revolution" MOLE GALLERY (Yamagata)
"Night Voice" Misawa Class (Yamagata)
"Open Studio 2016" Takino Exchange Center (Yamagata)
"Art market Geijutsu-kaiwai" Gotenzeki (Yamagata)
"Can Tohoku painting be possible? Regional Contemporary Art Museum" Tohoku University of Art and Design (Yamagata)
"Chaos*Lounge New Art Festival 2016 : The Gate of Hell" Bodaiji temple, etc. (Iwaki)
- Published -
giinika(February 2021) , Bijutsu_techo (December 2016), Art Top (November 2008)