Japanese Contemporary Artist & Performer Hormone Sekine's works and Information

Personal exhibition "Contemporary Art 2012"

Venue:Gallery COXIST-TOKYO(Tokyo)
Date:2.~24. JUN.2012

Painting, Installation, Performance.
About a work "Happiness"
This work will constitute the character "happiness" with LOTO 6 application forms(the 1st Issued on October 2, 2000 until to 669s up to June 21, 2012.
Each Winning number and serial number were written in each sheet.
He asserts the relationship of money, and society, a human being and sensibility cynically.
About a work "LOVE" and PEACE"
207 nations (194 UN countries and 13 nations of independence autonomy) exist in the present world.
It forms to the love of a Chinese character, and the character of peace with the work of 207 sheets. It is the theme which will build "love" & "peace" with all nations in the world.
Although the serial number to 207 is described in each work, each does not show one specific country.
About a work "Worldly desires(BONNOH) "
The Chinese character of 108 "worldly desires" famous for bells on New Year's Eve is formed with the work of 108 sheets.
The origin of the worldly desires(BONNOH) of 108.
Various opinions exist.
The most general opinion in it is the number with which the worldly desires of 36 applied the time-axis of the world and the next world a last world and now.
There are six senses of <vision (color), hearing (voice), the taste (taste), the sense of smell (scent), a tactile sense (sense of touch), and consciousness (law)> which a human being called six roots feels.
Further there are three states which are < Good, bad or neither > (total 18 BONNOHs).
Furthermore, there are two states (pure or impure).
If three time-axes (a last world, a now world, and a next world) are finally applied to 36 worldly desires, it will become a total of 108 worldly desires.
About a work "Contemporary Art 2012"
This work composes a letter of "2012" of the cross which he made with 2,012 splittable wood chopsticks.
He extracts thought called the Christian era.
<STATEMENT>
Philosopher Wittgenstein said as below;
Pictures and languages are two form in which an infinite meaning can be given to us.
Pictures have a meaning and tell something.
However, everything cannot be told with limiting the meaning of pictures.
That is because "narration" and a "meaning" of pictures exist in another dimension, and "thinking" which pictures tell does not exist in logic space.
Although pictures have a meaning, we cannot think of it.
I will replace "pictures" here with contemporary art.
It is said that contemporary art is the world nondescribable in language.
However, contemporary artist knows that it can be discovered by the pursuit of consciousness.
Then he remakes the discovered consciousness for a myth, in order to make it transposed to suitable language, and it releases to this world.

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