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The Relationship of Reading


A question for the civilization

Exhibition Dreaming of ... (Egoism), Fluxibell sTRUcTURs e.V. in Berlin, December 2022 - February 2023
Curated by Harm Lux


Work of Erika Matsunami:

Spatial installation

Digital photography

Poem

Performance


- o.T_transformative processes (2014 - 2022/2024 -)
Blackbox Photo with light chain in Blackbox
Poem "Black x" (2023)


- Poem "Closeness and Distance" (2023)
Braille Work

B.O.D.Y. - the second skin (2023) in English (original in German)
Translation Poem B.O.D.Y. - the second skin in German into Braille in German (2023), embossing: Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt e.V. (blista)

 


- Please smile, spiritual CO2 (2023)
Mirror floor piece Ceiling /Ceiling work


I like works that are not meant to be viewed.
The viewer's "gaze" becomes the atmosphere of the space, and at that moment it becomes the work of art.
These are a poetic work.
When there are no viewers, time stands still in this work.
The overarching theme of these works is “The Relationship of Reading”. Deaf, blind and everyone can take part.

My art historical position in Germany and Japan:

 

To see in the work - Please smile, spiritual CO2 (2023)
Mirror floor piece Ceiling /Ceiling work


The characteristics of my work lie somewhere between traditional Japanese art and German Expressionism includes Belgian expresionism*, was the Fine arts between the 17th century till 19th century in Japan.

*Flemish Expressionism, also referred to as Belgian Expressionism, was one of the dominant art styles in Flanders during the interbellum. Influenced by artists like James Ensor and the early works of Vincent van Gogh, it was a distinct contemporary of German Expressionism.[1] Contrary to the more rebellious and erotic nature of many German Expressionist works, the Flemish art of the School of Latem was more oriented towards the farming life, and was expressed in earthy colours and vigorous brushwork.[1] It was also in general more oriented towards France and Brussels than to Germany, and incorporated elements of Fauvism and Cubism, for example the interest in "primitive" art, of both the ethnic and folk traditions.[2] Flemish Expressionists like Spilliaert were more influenced by Ensor and Symbolism, or like Wouters were closer to the vibrant colours used by the Fauvists. The main proponents were Gust De Smet, Constant Permeke and Frits Van den Berghe.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_Expressionism

I was born in 1963 in Hiroshima, Japan.
His work was ready in the norm as a sculpture.
When I was a child, I started by creating clay portrait of my classmates, I received a prize for this clay portrait in art competitions, for which I won many awards. And when it came to sculpture, it was the work of Roy Scott. The bronze statues were already historic sculptures.

"Roy Ascott: Form has Behaviour brings together four of his interactive sculptures made in the 1960s – which he termed ‘analogue structures’ alongside his ‘Manifesto for Cybernetic Art’ (1963). The term analogue has its roots in the Greek analogos, meaning proportionate; in its contemporary application, it expresses the ability of a mechanism to physically represent the quantity it measures.

https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/roy-ascott-form-has-behaviour/

The curator of this exhibition, Harm Lux, is a Dutch curator who established the first non-profit art project space in Zürich, Switzerland, at the end of the 1980s.
American composer and artist John Cage is also a participant.
Half of the participating artists in this exhibition are internationally active artists from the US, the Netherlands, and Berlin. This is an exhibition of artists who are participating voluntarily, regardless of financial needs.


Harm Lux and the Association are currently working on a catalogue. (February 2025)

Artists participated with their original works. I participated in the concept of non-conceptual art (non-computational, happening, performance, installation).


In the 1990s they (Lily van der Stokker/NL and Hirsch Perlman/USA) were part of the post-John Cage and post-Fluxus generation in Western countries such as the USA, the Netherlands and Berlin, today they are international artists.

We (Lily van der Stocker, Hirisch Perlman and me) attended this exhibition with the edition.

This exhibition consists of works by young Eastern European artists and offers a new exploration of the theme of "Dreaming of... (Egoism)" about capitalism from both sides.


When I was a student at UdK Berlin in the 1990s, my activities were in artist studios in Europe, such as a studio presentation by Yoko Ono and La Monte Young at Yoko Ono's studio in NY in the 1970s. There wasn't an art project space like in Zürich yet.


I started to work as a young professional artist in 2000.