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Rintaro Hashiguchi's solo exhibition "so many life, so many death"
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From March 14th (Tuesday), Shibuya PARCO B1F "GALLERY X BY PARCO", the long-awaited first solo exhibition by Rintaro Hashiguchi, a modern book artist who is attracting attention from the art world, will be held at Tokyo's first solo exhibition "Rintaro Hashiguchi's solo exhibition".
Rintaro Hashiguchi is impressive with the alphabet and dynamic style that gives an unforgettable and intense impact from the moment you see it. Influenced by post-war avant-garde art, he has been based in his local Kyushu since his twenties, and has continued his production using towels instead of writing brushes while listening to pan clocks.
The "Mystery Books" series, born from a huge number of artist notes, is free from the boundaries between letters and paintings, and the ancients with ambiguous boundaries with the wild, our modern people with complicated information, and even the distant future of humankind where the characters themselves disappear from humankind and the infinite world of creation are unfolding beyond the bounds of the universe.
The title of this exhibition "so many life, so many death" is a message from an artist who expresses life and death, which are the fate of living things, in a simple and sound spiritual phrase. At the same time, in an unprecedented virus, war, and chaotic era, it seems that the question "Where do we come from, where we go, and how we live?" I hope you will feel the Universe as a life form that transcends the individual written by Rintaro Hashiguchi. At the venue, we will exhibit and sell works drawn for this exhibition and pencil drawings. In addition, to commemorate the holding of this exhibition, we will release his first collection of works, "so many life, so many death", sell editions of Gicre Printing, and sell original goods.
In addition, from 18:00 to 21:00 on March 14th (Tuesday), writer Lintaro Hashiguchi will be present in the hall to hold a preview and reception party for related parties and the media. (The general public can also participate.)
2023/3/14 (Tuesday) - March 26 (Sunday)
GALLERY X BY PARCO (Shibuya Parco B1F)
■Business hours 11:00-21:00
※From 18:00 to 21:00 on March 14th, it will be a reception party for the artist's corridor. The general public can also participate.
■Admission free
Parco/GALLERY NAO MASAKI
Comments from people who know the artists ※Title omitted
Fumio Nanjo (Special Advisor to Mori Art Museum / Art critic)
Hashiguchi Lintaro, who appeared like a comet from a solitary island on the land of Nagasaki, bet life on drawing letters. From punk to performance, from performance to character, characters are abstracted and spread infinitely.
For him, writing is to live.
There is universal in flow and change. You can see things that can't be seen there.
The book of a revolution that urges Japanese calligraphy to make fundamental reforms.
Shigeo Goto (Art Producer/Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts)
It was about three years ago that I met Rintaro Hashiguchi, but from that time I wasn't just a thing! I thought it. I am an artist of "speed", although I may have to evaluate him as a deviation from Japanese calligraphy or painting. The magical power is the power to purify the magic, and the speed to shake the curse. And it's a speed that makes sense. His high-speed art is the energy itself that comes directly to nerves.
Masamichi Tooyama (Representative of The Chain Museum)
In the present age when ego is tamed, an overwhelming ego that pierces.
It's been a long time since I don't need an explanation.
Book Information
The first collection of works "so many life, so many death" is also released!
[Book Information]
『 so many life, so many death 』
■Author: Rintaro Hashiguchi
■Specifications: A4/paralleled/100 pages
■Date of release
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Released at exhibition venues, Parco online stores, etc.
■List price: 3,200 yen + tax (provisional price)
■Sales source: PARCO
[Overview of Books]
The work "so many life, so many death", which is also the title of this exhibition, is the beginning of this exhibition.
This includes Lintaro Hashiguchi's collection of works from 2009 to 2023, a story closely related to the origin of the work, and a long interview by art critic Fumio Nanjo.
This is a long-awaited book of fans who can view the flow from the early days of starting his career as a writer and archived photos with a live feeling.
Writer profile
Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1985. Calligrapher, WLIGHTER.
When I was a teenager, I was shocked by the panclock and was fascinated by expressing what I wanted to say in my own way.
In 2004, when he entered the Japanese calligraphy Major Course at Fukuoka University of Education, he started expression activities using words.
After that, he was inspired by various post-war avant-garde art movements, and was inspired by the idea of Yuichi Inoue, a leading calligrapher in Japan after the war, saying, "If you have paper and pencils, you can use it for free."
The inspiration that sparkles in daily life is written in a notebook in fragmentary words, and the works created by fusing or changing like living things are called WORD MUTANT. The style of using inexpensive towels as writing instruments and writing them at once like a high-speed PUNK has a heterogeneous presence in a situation where characters have become printed or just symbols that are driven on the screen in modern times.
In recent years, he has released a series on the theme of "WLIGHTE" = WRITE (writing) and LIGHT (lighting) born in the work of continuing to ask the book "Why people write?"
