Provisional Assembly of Hypotheses - formation of cairn –
2018
oil-based clay, timber, styrofoam, etc
h.350 × w.490 × d.370 cm
“Choukoku-no-Mori Art-Live 2018”
The Hakone Open-Air Museum / Hakone, Kanagawa, JAPAN
This box was created by one sculptor*.
And this inside necessarily has the void.
The void doesn't just mean the empty.
To have innumerable further expressions has been taken into consideration in advance.
And the infinite change of this void defines the existence of this box.
* Bukichi Inoue 1930 - 1997 sculptor : He planned the Hakone Open-Air Museum in 1969.
holes in the front of the work allow a view into inside
each participant created small works by oil-based clay as a hypothesis for the mountains of Hakone, and these approximately 100 clay mountains were placed in the work
“Let’s make the mountain of Hakone by clay！”
Date and Time: 15 and 16th Sep 2018 / 11am-12pm / 14pm-15pm
Number of participants: approximately 100
In these workshops which were held four times in two days, each participant created small works by oil-based clay based on their own scenes for mountains of Hakone.
Approximately 100 clay mountains were arranged inside of work as hypotheses about the mountains in Hakone.
And this work was completed as the provisional assembly work.
The mountains in Hakone have been the motif of various expressive media since ancient times.
This is probably largely due to the geographical and social factors of Hakone, such as a dangerous spot, an important point, and a checkpoint on the Tokaido.
The image of mountains in Hakone emerges as a pile by assembling and collaging countless expressions created by individual feeling scenes.
It seems like a structure of "cairn" in which all stones include various person’s feelings and are piled up innumerably and collapsed and deformed repeatedly.