"Form Of Time"
MIMOCA / Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa Japan
26 October 2008 – 12 January 2009

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1 MILLION HEARTBEATS
10 Heartbeat Drawing for 24-Hour, 1998-2008 (SEP 1998, SEP 1998, MAR 1999, MAY 2000, NOV 2000, DEC 2001, FEB 2004, DEC 2005, DEC 2007, MAR 2008, AUG 2008), h330 x w670 x d16 cm, ink on paper
Installation at "FORM OF TIME", Marugame Genichiro-Inokums Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan, 2008-2009

"FORM OF TIME", Marugame Genichiro-Inokums Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan 2008-2009
- - - This exhibition displays ten 24-hour drawings created during the decade from 1998 to 2008. Even in a single drawing, the heartbeats do not all look the same, but if we compare drawings, further differences stand out, such as slight differences in color of the ink or amplitude of the line's swing, features that differ with the year of production. Such differences are naturally a result of his efforts to refine his art, but at the same time, they are realistically expressive of our lives, which subtly change from time to time. Then, by displaying in combination several drawings, all formed of numerous lines drawn so as to be nearly touching, the artist produces one large picture that suggests how the time lived by even a single person continually grows in amount and expands.
(Extracts from "FORM of TIME" exhibition catalogue : Madoka Matsumura/Curator, The MIMOCA Foundation)

Installation at Gllery 360°, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
From left : UNTITLED 5000-heartbeat 58x58cm Scratched - Acrylic on paper / UNTITLED 20000-heartbeat 152x152cm Acrylic on synthetic paper (W1796) / UNTITLED 5000-heartbeat 70x70cm Acrylic on acetate film / UNTITLED 10000-heartbeat 108x108cm Scratched - Acrylic on synthetic paper

"FORM OF TIME", Marugame Genichiro-Inokums Museum of Contemporary Art (MIMOCA) 2008-2009
- - - Presented here are works showing a single continuous line. A single line suggests more emphatically that it represents the heartbeats of particular person. The heartbeats, inscribed on paper in the order they were heard, seem to express an understanding of time as something flowing in one direction, and suggest a ceaseless, straight growth extending forward to maturity. While drawn one by one in a regular manner. The line is seen to loop and overlap with itself and wander into confusion, suggesting thereby how we not only interweave our own time with that of others around us but also give it relationship with the time of distant places. Thus, we are ever newly constructing our own time while influencing and being influenced by others.
(Extracts from "FORM of TIME" exhibition catalogue : Madoka Matsumura/Curator, The MIMOCA Foundation)

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