Sculptural Field

Outline of the exhibition

MARUEIDO JAPAN is pleased to announce a solo exhibition entitled “Sculptural Field” by sculptor FUJISAKI Ryoichi.

Ryoichi Fujisaki was born in Osaka in 1975, and he graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Graduate School of Arts at Kyoto City University of Arts (2003). Since then, he has gained experience at a number of production worksites, including commercial studios, demolition sites, painting shops and contemporary art artist studios, over the course of many years. In 2015, he moved his base of activities to Tokyo and started as a full-scale artist.
He has released art such as photographs and videos, in addition to three-dimensional artworks, which are based on the experiences, techniques, and awareness he has developed working at different places.
From his deep knowledge and obsession with materials, he extracts elements that are within his target situations, and he derives new shapes by making use of random chance and the physical properties of materials as a starting point for his own physical sensations.

In the Scan series on display at this exhibition, the expression of the materials themselves is transferred to the sticky surface of the back of cutting sheets, and the texture of the peeled material presents a world view of Fujisaki’s perspective of sculpture.
According to Fujisaki, "The space around the sculpture is a void, and the surface of the sculpture is the boundary between the sculpture itself and the void. Without this void, the sculpture cannot be recognized. If this is the concept of a sculpture, then surface of the peeled material is the boundary of the void and the sculpture can be two-dimensional."
The Scan series started with a phenomenon discovered by chance two years ago and it has evolved through Fujisaki's skill and developed into a more complicated type of expression. Please take this opportunity to appreciate the work of a very talented artist.


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Artist Statement

A sculpture comes into being when the movement of a body through space is cut out in 3D as a form. The panel traces left on sheets reveal the context of sculpture artwork on both the material itself and the wall. Its existence, which suddenly appeared as a story or process, was strange yet I could naturally accept it, and I found my consciousness being absorbed into the space and that my sense of time fell silent.

Ryoichi Fujisaki

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