Exhibition

Past

2023

05.12Fri

05.14Sun

at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center

Booth B01 / Hall 1 (4th Floor)
No. 1, Jingmao 2nd Road, Nangang District, Taipei City

May 12 (fri) 11am-6pm
May 13 (sat) 11am-6pm
May 14 (sun) 11am-5:30pm

TAIPEI DANGDAI 2023

小畑 多丘 | Taku Obata / CMTK (Chihiro Mori x Teppei Kaneuji)

details - JP

この度PARCELではTaipei Dangdai にて小畑多丘・CMTKの作品を発表いたします。CMTKとして初の台湾での発表、小畑のキャンバス作品シリーズは初の発表の機会となります。

1980年生まれの彫刻家、小畑多丘は自身もブレイクダンサーだというルーツを元に、B-BOYにインスピレーションを受けた一連の人体彫刻作品で知られております。近年は彫刻作品のみならず、塑像と彫像の関係性をもとにしたキャンバス作品を発表しています。絵具を厚く塗り敷いたキャンバス上から絵具を「削り」とり、その質量をそのまま移動させて「盛り」、ダンスにも通ずるリズミカルな身体の動きによるキャンバス作品へのアプローチを展開しています。今回発表するキャンバス作品では、色彩が削ぎ落とされ絵具の物質性や身体性によりフォーカスした作品を展示いたします。


また、本フェアでは「BUTTAI」シリーズの彫刻作品を発表いたします。「BUTTAI」は、初期は作家の写真・映像作品として登場することが多かったモチーフですが、地球上で重力によって成り立った形であり、重力に動きを支配されている人体に対する存在として、重力から開放され、宙に浮いた状態で小畑のキャンバス作品上にも存在しています。人体彫刻のダウンジャケットのシワだけを抽出したことで出来たこの形から派生し、今回発表する作品では成形した粘土を作家自身が作った作品に落下させることでダイレクトにシワを複写させ、さらに変形させたものをスキャンして拡大し、最終的には木彫として形にしています。作家として初期より通してテーマに持つ重力と人体、質量と空間を語るに欠かせない存在として、キャンバス作品とともにBUTTAIは数年ぶりの発表となります。


森と金氏の二人で活動する時の名義「CMTK」のコラボレーションは、森が長年にわたって日常的に撮影を続ける路上、風景、テレビ画面などを対象とした写真と、様々な方法で収集した既存のイメージを、金氏が編集、コラージュすることから始まり、レンチキュラーなどの特殊な印刷を中心とした作品群、アニメーションなどの映像、さまざまなメディウムを用いた作品として発表されてきました。


森の写真は瞬間的に過ぎ去ってしまう、もしくはゴミのように扱われる事物や状況が持つ美しさや光、あるいはここではないどこかへの入り口のようなものであり、金氏によって客観的にコラージュされることにより、それらは複数の視線による無数の切断と接続の連続が混在した、現実と虚構を行き来するオルタナティブなイメージになります。


ユニットやコレクティブでの活動や制作が珍しくなくなった今日において、CMTKの作品は個々の主張がぶつかり合う共作やコラボレーションとは異なります。外部の作家や他分野の方ともプロジェクトをこなしてきた両者だからこそ、連名ではなくあえてCMTKとして別人格を立て制作をする意味、可能性を示した作品を展開しています。


また、森と金氏が語るように「最も身近で、すぐ隣にいる他者、異物、謎、そのような存在と共有しているものと共有できないもの、それらと向き合い作品を制作することで、現在を検証し、遠く離れた時間や場所またはそこにあるイメージや出来事を想像したり、思い出したり、反転させたりすることを試みる。例えどのような状況であっても、その状況特有の美しさがあるということを信じている。」と出自の異なる物事が重なり合うことにより生まれ、見えてくる新しい景色や視点を感じていただけると幸いです。

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PARCEL is proud to present an exhibition of works by Taku Obata and CMTK (Chihiro Mori & Teppei Kaneuji) at Taipei Dangdai. For CMTK, this marks their first presentation of works in Taiwan, while for Obata, it will be an opportunity to showcase his canvas works for the very first time.

Obata, a sculptor born in 1980, has garnered significant recognition for his series of sculptures in human form, inspired by the dynamic movement of the B-BOY culture. Having a background as a breakdancer, Obata has imbued his sculptures with a sense of kinetic energy that captures the essence of the dance form and pauses. In recent years, Obata has expanded his practice to include canvas works, exploring the interplay between the carving and modeling process of sculpture. His innovative approach involves layering thick paint on canvas, which he then “carves off” to create intricate patterns of movement that evoke the rhythmic flow of dance. The works presented at Taipei Dangdai represent a striking example of Obata’s ability to seamlessly merge his sculptural and painting practices, showcasing a mastery of form and technique. At the heart of Obata’s works lies a fascination with the materiality of paint and the bodily sensations it evokes. By scraping away the colors, he draws attention to the physicality of paint, revealing its texture and weight. The resulting canvas works are mesmerizing, with a sense of fluidity and grace that belies their complex and labor-intensive creation process.

The exhibition also features the “BUTTAI” series of sculptures, which appeared in many of the artist’s early photographic and video works. Drawing on his interest in gravity and volume, Obata creates a sense of weightlessness in these sculptures, evoking a sense of floating and suspension. The forms themselves are derived from the wrinkles of a down jacket, transformed through a meticulous process of molding, scanning, and carving. Obata’s works offer a compelling exploration of the interplay between form, space, and materiality, highlighting his unique ability to bridge the worlds of sculpture and painting. 


The collaboration under the name “CMTK” by Chihiro Mori and Teppei Kaneuji involves Mori’s photographs of everyday street scenes, landscapes, and TV screens, which she has been capturing over many years, as well as existing images collected by various methods, which Kaneuji edits and collages. This collaboration has resulted in a series of works centered around special printing techniques such as lenticular printing, as well as video animations and works using various media.
Mori’s photographs capture the beauty and light of objects or situations that are fleeting and easily overlooked, or treated like garbage. They can also serve as a doorway to somewhere else, somewhere not here. Through Kaneuji’s objective collaging, these photographs become alternative images that move back and forth between reality and fiction, intermingled with numerous cuts and connections from multiple perspectives. 

In today’s world where group activities and collaborations are becoming increasingly common, the works of CMTK stand out as being different from collaborative works where individual assertions clash. Both Mori and Kaneuji have also worked on projects with external artists and those from other fields, and it is precisely because of this that they choose to create works under the separate identity of CMTK, rather than using their own names. By doing so, they demonstrate the meaning and possibility of creating works that stand on their own as CMTK. 
As Mori and Kaneuji explain, they attempt to verify the present by creating works that confront and share what they have in common with others, strangers, mysteries, and things they cannot share, imagining, recalling, or reversing images or events from far-off times or places. They believe that there is beauty in every situation, and that new landscapes and perspectives can be felt through the overlapping of things with different origins. We hope that you will enjoy experiencing these new views and perspectives.

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Taku OBATA | 小畑 多丘

1980 Born in Saitama pref. Japan
1999 starts HIPHOP group UNITY SELECTIONS
2006 BFA sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
2007 Starts Hip-hop performance group BBOYGER
2008 MFA sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 “B-BOY REVENGE 2022” , PARCEL, Tokyo
2020 “LET’S MOVE IT” , PARCEL, Tokyo
“Opposite Effects” AKIO NAGASAWA, Tokyo
“TAKU OBATA SCULPTURE” Japan House London, London, UK
“TAKU OBATA DRAWING Exhibition” White Conduit Projects, London, UK
“B BOY JIKI”Bomma galerie, Paris, France
2014 “BUST A MOVE”Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2012 “Taku Obata B-BOY on Sky Court “, Nakamura Keith Haring Museum, Yamanashi


Chihiro MORI | 森 千裕

Born in Osaka in 1978
2005, MFA, Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts
Currently works and lives in Kyoto, Japan

Teppei KANEUJI | 金氏 徹平

Born in 1978, currently lives and works in Kyoto
MFA, sculpture, Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003

CMTK(Chihiro Mori x Teppei Kaneuji) | selected exhibitions

2023 “The sleeping one, and the one that is awake” PARCEL, Tokyo
2022 “DOUBLE TROUBLE”, Jane Lombard Gallery, NY
2022 Kyoto Experiment
2021 Art Collaboration Kyoto
2021 Yambaru Art Festival, Okinawa