グループ展に参加します。

その名も題して、Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory.

知る人ぞ知るAndy Warholの作品達を、Warholian.comの主宰Mike Cuffe氏にご指名されたサンフランシスコ、ベイエリアで活躍する５２人ものアーティストがそれぞれの解釈、スタイルで表現します。私もCampbell Soup Cansシリーズのアーティストの一人として、参加しています。

As one of the 32 Campbell’s Soup Can artists, I reworked on Onion Soup taking the approach to combine traditional Japanese aesthetic and style into the Warhol’s refined imagery, using diluted sumi ink and Japanese gasen paper for calligraphy.

作品作りはサンフランシスコに居る間に始めたけれど、２月半ばにはDCとNYに出発した為に仕上げはNYに居る間にすることに。全て素材をスーツケースに詰め込んで、Brooklynに滞在中に仕上げ、サンフランシスコまで郵送。無事にProject One Galleryまでたどり着いたようで、一安心。

We all had a month to work on the piece.  Due to the trip to DC and NY, I finished my piece while I was staying in Brooklyn, and shipped it to San Francisco.  I was relieved to hear that my piece made it to Project One Gallery. Phew.

ウォーホルのオニオンスープ缶との長い戯れの末、ふと友人達と訪れたNYMOMA bookstoreで、予期せぬときに出会うのはウォーホルのキャンベルスープ缶を表紙にした本。思わず写真をぱちり。

After examining Warhol’s Onion Soup can for such a long time, I felt funny when I stumbled upon Warhol’s book at NYMOMA bookstore.

そしてNYMOMAの３階にゆくと、これまた出会うのはAndy Warholのキャンベルスープ缶の実物。そりゃあそうですよねNYMOMAですもの！

And of course, at NYMOMA, the actual Warhol’s Campbell’s soup cans!

(My iPhone did its best to get this grainy picture… Please forgive.)

NYMOMA had a featured exhibition of Warhol’s motion picture series on the top floor.  It was very inspiring… I loved how they designed to have large projections on all the walls in the gallery space, so that you are 360° surrounded by black & white motion picture portraits of well-known faces.  Especially, I loved the motion picture piece titled “kiss” in the secluded room all the way back in the gallery space: the walls on both sides crops the horizontal projection image into a tall skinny rectangle image, so you can only peek the lovers kissing if you stand far from the entrance of this room.  I had more than enough Andy Warhol in my February 2011, although I didn’t intend to.

Life is full of surprises and lots of unexpected coincidences. When you think of someone or something strongly, you’re somehow destined to come across with them.  This New York trip convinced me to believe this our life’s ironic yet enjoyable philosophy.

 

今夜はVIP Opening, 明日は一般公開レセプションです。

Come join us to tonight to witness San Francisco’s renowned and emerging artists’ unique interpretations paying homage to our timeless hero, Andy Warhol. It will be one of the historic events!

Warhol Reimagined: The New Factory
March 10th, 2011 – April 19th, 2011
Opening night (All welcome, no cover): March 10th, 2011 – 7pm-2am
Project One Gallery | 251 Rhode Island, San Francisco, CA 94103

Daytime Gallery and Cafe Hours: Mon. – Friday – from 8am – 5pm
Gallery Happy Hour every Thursday & Friday 5pm – 8pm
Gallery Evening Hours every Wed. – Sat. until 2am
Phone: (415) 938-7173 ‎ | Website: http://p1sf.com

For more info, visit  http://www.warholreimagined.com

Check out Warholian.com

ではでは、一足先にちょっと覗いてきます♪