村上隆さんのインスタグラム写真 - (村上隆Instagram)「@yuji____ueda On the Occasion of Yuji Ueda’s Solo Exhibition Ten years since his debut, Yuji Ueda has now created his most abstract works as well as his largest work to date for his long-awaited exhibition. The works he produced for this show are, in my subjective opinion, truly remarkable, bursting with his human soul. When I think about the distance he had to cover to get to this point, I am doubly impressed by how he managed to zero in on these works. His was a solitary journey into the world no one had traversed before him. Every detail of his heart’s undulation, from loneliness and unease to contrasting conviction and confidence, shows in these works. I am absolutely blown away by this tremendous body of work. The crucial thing for an artist is not whether you can adequately explain your concept but whether you are able to bring out any and all answers in your work. Of course an artist may be in a certain mood or have a specific theme at any given time, but all the theories in your head mean nothing if you can’t reflect them in your work. In case of a ceramicist, everything from the selection of clays, to temperature, glaze, and how they interact with the natural environment, is the accumulation of information and the artist’s wisdom; only when all these elements successfully coalesce will the resulting work truly become an artwork. When I asked Ueda what his theme for this exhibition was going to be, his response was anti-climactic with its childishness: “I want to make attractive works.” His words may seem inadequate for someone over forty, but the body of works he produced for the show overcomes his linguistic childishness, harboring something like a divine artistic glow. This is a body of work that would retain its current freshness when seen in the distant future, whether ten or fifty years from now; because the artist’s life, ambition, sorrow, and hardship are all lumped up and evident in these works. I am in the gallery business precisely in the hope of encountering such artworks and in order to create a space to make such encounters possible. This show makes me feel my efforts have paid off. ... next page 👉」11月22日 16時21分