村上隆のインスタグラム(takashipom) - 2月10日 04時32分

On February 21st, I open my solo show, titled GYATEI2, at Gagosian Beverly Hills.

The title of the show references the climactic mantra, “gyatei, gyatei, haragyatei, harasogyatei,” that comes at the end of the Heart Sutra. This phrase could be full of meaning or devoid of meaning—some say it imitates an infant’s cry and, when chanted loudly, signifies rebirth.

One of the works I’d like people to pay attention to in this show is a large painting featuring fish. If I may say so myself, this piece is exquisitely done. How can I put it—it’s been my goal as an artist to make my mind completely blank and paint as though in daze, wandering randomly around the canvas, and this is a piece that I managed to complete in just such way. I feel very lucky about this work.

And there’s a back story to this piece.
When I first met Larry Gagosian at his uptown gallery in NY to discuss my getting represented by the gallery, I tried to promote myself by showing him an idea for this painting (it was actually an image of a jar) and telling him that I intended to make a large painting with this as the subject. Larry really liked the idea. I subsequently did come to be represented by Gagosian, but I wasn’t able to realize the fish painting for a long time.
Before I became a contemporary artist, actually I used to almost exclusively paint fish—especially freshwater fish. To think about the reason why, I recall often going to a river with my father to fish and seeing what looked like professional fishermen catching grass carps and fish named Hypophthalmichthys molitrix or Hypophthalmichthys nobilis brought in from China that were more than 1-meter long, and being astonished. Neither my father nor I ever managed to catch big fish and we brought small fish or shrimp home to release in our backyard pond, but rather than such a pathetic memory, it seems that my awe of huge fish must have remained vividly in my mind.
The fish I have painted, by chance, are enormous freshwater fish that must have grown in a big river in China.

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