Choosing 260123 (Diptych), 2026
Kotaro Machiyama   New & remarkable Artists

Painting : acrylic · 45.8 x 130.8 x 2.3 cm 18 x 51.5 x 0.9 inch · Ready to hang

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45.8 x 130.8 x 2.3 cm 18 x 51.5 x 0.9 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Description

The present self is shaped by the accumulation of past choices.

In this series, I extract and reconstruct a favored fragment from my previous works.
It is an act of selecting again from what has already once been chosen.

In life as well, among countless decisions, only some lead to the present.
The fragments in these works are traces of such choices,
forms of the present that emerge through the layering of time.

Kotaro Machiyama, Choosing 260123 (Diptych)
Japan  • 1980
57 followers

Presentation

- Artist Statement

Shifting Consciousness.

I explore the causes of my attraction to an object, and then create a work of art using the shapes and colors I find as a result.

The abstract works, shaved down and simplified, pose questions to the viewer.

These questions prompt the viewer to think, and even if only slightly, to move their consciousness away from the situation of “now".

This is to enjoy "thinking" itself.

It is similar to the feeling of living in an "extraordinary" world; a world other than reality, such as the same feeling when you go to the movies or travel.

In ancient Japan, festivals and Sake were prepared for the "Hare" (extraordinary) days to get rid of the “Kegare" (bad things) accumulated in daily life and to gain vitality.

However, the glamour of the festivals and the Sake that had been part of the "Hare" (extraordinary) days became part of the daily life. Therefor, the "Kegare" (bad things) could no longer be removed.

Shifting consciousness becomes a tool to enter to the "Hare" (extraordinary) days in its original meaning.

- CV

2011 Setu・Mode Seminar graduation. 

2004 Tokyo Zokei University of Art and design subject dye major graduation

-Prizes

2017

J-WAVE TIME TABLE- Grand prize- Tokyo, Japan

2017

Rise Art Prize - Nominated- United Kingdom

2011

Graphic Design in Japan 2011 - Nominated- Tokyo, Japan

2011

Tokyo TDC 2011 - Nominated- Tokyo, Japan

2011

The six time “Daikokuya contemporary art award" - Nominated- Tochigi, Japan

2011

Sapporo Pre-Biennale Contemporary Art Exhibition 2011 International Art-Proposal Competition - Nominated- Sapporo, Japan

2009

The third time "VISUAL ART AWARD BY INTERNATIONAL ART & DESIGN COLLEGE"- Mariko Abe award winning- Hukusima, Japan

-Solo exhibitions

2020

WAKARANAI MONO GA SUKI in Osaka / arflex osaka - Osaka, Japan

2020

WAKARANAI MONO GA SUKI in Tokyo / arflex tamagawa - Tokyo, Japan

-Group exhibitions

2021

#SHAPEOFTHENEW" / CasildART - Online, United Kingdom

2020

Summer Tracks / Programa Taide - Online, Spain

2018

OBSERVER BIAS / THE blank GALLERY - Tokyo, Japan

2014

ASYAAF 2014 / Seoul - Seoul, South Korea

2011

The six time “Daikokuya contemporary art award" / Daikokuya - Tochigi, Japan

2009

"The third time VISUAL ART AWARD BY INTERNATIONAL ART & DESIGN COLLEGE" Winning exhibition,[Bikkuai] 6F citizens gallery / [Bikkuai] 6F citizens gallery - Hukusima, Japan

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