Kosuke Yamawaki was born in Abiko City, Chiba prefecture, in 1985. He graduated from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
He creates paintings as an artist and has held many exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
He exhibited at BEYOND THE BORDER, Tangram Art Center (SHANGHAI) with internationally acclaimed artists Zhou Tiehai, Yuki Onodera, Toeko Tatsuno, Miyako Ishiuchi, and others.
In June 2018, he supervised the art for Isshin Inudo’s film “Neko wa Dakumono.” The following year, he showcased his solo exhibition at the Kasumigaseki Building, 31 Builedge, Kasumigaseki Plaza Hall.
In 2021, he participated in a group exhibition that included Daido Moriyama and Tomoo Gokita. From 2023, he will permanently exhibit his first public artwork at the “HOKKAIDO BALLPARK F VILLAGE,” an area that includes the new Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball stadium.

 

“Seeing is being seen; being seen is the only way to see.”

Looking at an object means that the object is looking at one physically and psychologically, and it is a raw act that establishes an intimate relationship between one and the object.

The purpose of appreciation is to discover new perceptions, or “blank spaces,” that emerge in the repetitive motion of seeing and being seen through the object itself.
In this process, the object becomes a trigger for our discovery and a mirror reflecting our newfound perceptions.

It is important to note that the discovery for us lies not in gazing at the object itself but in the blank space that the object creates.
One is gazed at through seeing, and through being gazed at, one sees. The “what one sees” is what the artist truly desires to understand and pursue.

 

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1985年千葉県我孫子市生まれ。
東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科修了。
BEYOND THE BORDER ,Tangram Art Center（上海）の展覧会では世界的に活躍する Zhou Tiehai やオノデラユキ、辰野登恵子らと展示を行う。
近年では森山大道、五木田智央らが出品するグループ展の参加や、北海道日本ハムファイターズの新球場を含めたエリア「HOKKAIDO BALLPARK F VILLAGE」にて2mを超す大作が公開展示された。

 

「見ることで見つめられ、見つめられることで見える」

見るということは、その対象に実体的にも、心象的にも私たちが見つめられるということであり、その対象と私たちが親密な関係を築く、生々しい行為だ。

鑑賞の目的は、見る、見られるという、対象と私たちの反復運動の中で生まれる新たな認識＝”余白の存在”を、私たち自身が対象を通じて発見することにある。

その際、その対象は私たちが発見するきっかけを与える存在となり、私たちの発見を映し出す鏡となる。

重要なことは、対象を見つめることが私たちにとって発見なのではなく、対象を通じて生まれた余白を見つめることが私たちにとって発見だということだ。

見ることで見つめられ、見つめられることで初めて見える。

その“見えるもの“こそが私たちが本当に知りたいこと、探求していることなのではないだろうか。