同時期滞在日本AIRプログラム 大﨑土夢 制作レポート① 〜余市の遺跡編〜 / Domestic Open Call 2021 Artist Tomu Osaki – Progress Report #1
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2021年度の公募プログラム招聘アーティストの大﨑土夢さん。「海の幸」で知られる同郷の画家青木繁がもし北海道に来ていたら？という仮想をもとに道内をリサーチしながら制作しています。
大﨑さんのWebサイトはこちら。http://tomuosaki.com
青木繁は古今東西の神話を題材としていたことから、リサーチでは道内の縄文時代の遺跡を重点的に巡っています。
こちらの写真は小樽から車で約20分、余市町にある忍路（オショロ）環状列石。石は海岸のものらしいですが、遺跡から海岸まで数キロ離れています。誰が、どうして、どのように。。。想像が膨らみます。
Tomu Osaki, an invited artists for Tenjinyama’s open call 2021, has been working on his research and artmaking founded on a hypothesis. What if Shigeru Aoki, the ‘Fruits of the Sea’ painter with whom Osaki shares his geographical background, left his footprints on the land of Hokkaido?
Supported by the fact that Aoki had acquired his artistic subject from mythologies of all ages and countries, the artist has been trotting all around Hokkaido with his primary focus on the Jomon remains.
Captured in the photo below is the Oshoro Stone Circle. Twenty-minutes drive from Otaru took us to the location. The writer heard that these stones were originally from the sea, and it only gets more curious when we know very obviously that they’ve been placed on the land several kilo meters away from the shore. The designer, the cause, or the methods… sky’s the limit when we think about it.
こちらは西崎山環状列石。小高い丘のてっぺんにあります。
This is Mt. Nishizaki Stone Circle, located on top of a little hill.
西崎山から見えるフゴッペ洞窟の内部には多数の絵が彫られています。中には翼を持つ人間のようなものも。（保存のために写真撮影は禁止でした）
We also visited Fugoppe Cave, which you can see from Mt. Nishizaki. Inside, the photoshoot was prohibited for preservation reasons, but the team witnessed many pictures — including the one resemble a human with two wings — curved on the wall.
小樽市総合博物館運河館に展示されるおびただしい数の土器。これらは全て小樽〜余市の遺跡で発掘されたものだそうです。
At Otaru Museum of History and Nature were the enormous earthenware showcased. Ones in the picture were all excavated from remains in Otaru and Yoichi.
余市リサーチの締めくくりは奇岩「えびす岩」。重力に抗うようなシルエットに「ほとんどダリだね」とのコメント。
The Ebisu Rocks was the final destination of our research in Yoichi. “It’s almost like a Dali” — The rocks’ magical shape, anti-gravity, have seemed to fascinated the artist.
後日、制作スタジオを訪れてみると、環状列石やえびす岩の影が。
赤色でとられた輪郭線も青木になぞらえているとのことです。
A few days after, what we found in his paintings were the shadows of the stone circle or the Ebisu Rocks.
According to the artist, the red-colored outlines are adopted from Aoki’s work.
青木繁の傑作「海の幸」に正面から挑むオマージュ作品も制作されています。
11月には札幌のギャラリーにて展覧会を開催予定です。どうぞご期待ください！
Besides, Osaki has also been working on an orthodox tribute to the late painter’s masterpiece ‘Fruits of the Sea’. For the presentation of those works, a show is scheduled in a gallery in Sapporo this November.