川上俊のインスタグラム(shunkawakami) - 6月1日 23時50分

PMQ Hong Kong
artwork + installation design + concept design + sign design + graphic design

#shunkawakami #artless
credit :
creative direction, art direction & artwork: shun kawakami, artless Inc.
space design & installation: kazunori matsumura, firm.
calligraphy: gen miyamura
video art: seven shuffles

installation assistant: ken aoki, artless Inc.
graphic design: koyuki inagaki, artless Inc. – ‘Bokusho -墨象-,’ an installation art piece that combines the artwork by Shun Kawakami and calligraphic strokes by Gen Miyamura, first released in 2011 for ISETAN, was revived and evolved in 2016 at Hong Kong deTour 2016. ‘deTour’ is a concurrent annual event of ‘the Business of Design Week,’ organised and hosted by Hong Kong Design Centre and PMQ. In 2016, with the year’s theme being ‘Game Changer,’ we were selected to be part of the programme by creating an installation art piece to be set up at PMQ in Central, Hong Kong.

Our response to the theme ‘Game Changer’ was to create an artwork that questions the definition of a traditional art form. The title of our artwork ‘Bokusho -墨象 -’ is directly derived from the term meaning an avant-garde calligraphy style that sprung out of post-war Japan. In this artwork, traditional calligraphy and ink painting are explored in different forms.

Photos of Japanese pines, calligraphic strokes and alphabets were combined and printed on translucent fabrics. Visitors were able to walk into the artwork – making the visitors themselves to be part of the calligraphic pine forest. Do we define an art form by its subject matter, media or aesthetic style? Rather, we believe in philosophical and atmospheric ethos – the spontaneity of strokes, the tension within the accidental negative spaces – and that an art form should not be confined by a definition.

This artwork questions such definition, to become ‘the game changer’ in the field of traditional art form.

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