Mutual projection
Haruka Hirai exhibition
19th May – 19th June 2022
In my recent work, I have been working with the idea of a system that evokes the illusions occuring through the use of painted installations.
This exhibition represents an installation using series of paintings made on wooden panels that fold in half instead of using a regular canvas. On these panels I applied canvas painted with acrylic paint. The form of the wooden panels and the images painted on them are directly inspired by two triangles formed when the corners of a piece of paper, such as books and old stamps I collected in Germany, are folded. By folding the pages, the page numbers and images are rotated 90 degrees and overlap, creating unintended images.
The variety of images that emerge through this simple operation may be described as the essence of collage-like thinking. The images created here are generated endlessly and semi-automatically, as I abandon the manipulation of composition. This allows the artist to focus on the act of painting without being bound by the principles of image generation. In other words, this is an attempt to separate the “what” from the “how”when painting.
Along with the installation, I have created a book limited to one copy in which I’ve collected motifs and sources generated in the process of creating works. From the perspective of the work’s concept of “examining the drawing-like and collage-like process while redistributing it on the plane, in space, and in time,”it is my intention to place equal importance on the experience of the actual and printed work.
Profile
1985 Born in Aichi, Japan
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
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［Education］
2014-2016 the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
2010 MFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2008 BFA, Aichi University of the Arts, Aichi
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［Solo exhibitions］
2021 Fluid, TIME&STYLE Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2018 Part2:Bookmark, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Part1:Superimpose, Galerie Martin Mertens, Berlin
Pagination, Luis Leu, Karlsruhe
2013 Gallery Anri, Aichi
2011 Close in Pages, Gallery Anri, Aichi
Paper on Paper, florlist_gallery N, Aichi
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［Group exhibitions］
2019 fun with flowers, Orgelfabrik Durlach, Karlsruhe
Chronicle, Projektraum (Kunstquartier Bethanien), Berlin
2018 13+13 warten wechseln warten wechseln, EP contemporary, Berlin
2016 Mädchen 62, Villa Kolb, Karlsruhe
Sommer Exhibition 2016, the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe
2015 Inner History, iGallery, Tokyo
JDJHH, Mucharaum (the State Academy of Fine Arts), Karlsruhe
2014 Mother and Father, TALION GALLERY, Tokyo
2013 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2013 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
2012 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2012 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
DAIGAKU-KAIGA, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo
The 11th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma
N-TEN (Exhibition N), Art Space X, Aichi Art Center, Aichi
SCENE 2, TIME & STYLE MIDTOWN, Tokyo
2011 KAIGA-NO-HADO 2011 -Part2-, Art Gallery in Mitsukoshi LTD, Aichi
Outline 2, KAGIYA Buiding, Shizuoka / florlist_gallery N, Aichi
2010 Kiryu Saien 16, Bakery Cafe RENGA in the Former Kanaya Residence, Gunma
Art Award Tokyo Morunouchi 2010, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
2009 International Workshop of Contemporary Art “Contemporary Drawing Exhibition -Views-“,
Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
YUKASHITA Electric, GENDAI-HEIGHTS Gallery Den, Tokyo
7 LAB., University Hall 2F Gallery, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
2007 The 5th Haruhi Painting Biennale, Kiyosu City Haruhi Art Museum, Aichi
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［Award and Grants］
2022 Arts and Culture Grant, Nomura Foundation
2021 Arts and Culture Grant, Nomura Foundation
2017 Overseas Study Program for Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government
2014 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship
2009 HOLBEIN Scholarship, HOLBEIN Works, Ltd., Japan
2007 Incentive prize, The 5th Haruhi Painting Biennale
Haruka Hirai official site
