HISAMATSU Tomoko

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HISAMATSU Tomoko

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	2019.5- 2019.6

Purpose of the residency

My main purpose of stay in TOKAS residency is getting to visit and interact with the cooperators such as artists, collectors, and critics in Tokyo and abroad. For I will meet with experts in video art, contemporary ceramics, and crafts , etc, The cooperator’s fields are various. Additionally, I would like to see works and literature about modern Japanese paintings, that the subject of my works has represented to Yokoyama Taikan and Okakura Tenshin until now. I would like to relativize the perspectives of domestic Japanese toward history and art include my background. The goal is writing the statement to deepen an idea of “Painting of Little Narratives”.

Plan during the residency

・Interact and collect materials with cooperators ( e.g. artists, collectors, and critics) and visit their studios and homes.
・Survey literature and observe works on modern Japanese paintings at museums and libraries around Tokyo, such as the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo University of the Art.
・Writing artist statement, drawing, working out a plan for new work of painting. 

Activities during the residency

HISAMATSU Tomoko is a painter based in Tohoku, Japan. Her representational paintings have been referencing the modern and contemporary Japanese art history as the “ground narrative.” The purpose of participating in the TOKAS program is to reexamine her doubt about the system of the domestic art industry and the major view of art history in Japan. During her stay in Tokyo, she visited some video artists such as KAWAI Masayuki, and had an opportunity to work as a studio assistant, watch the works, and have dialogues. These dialogues and discussions with the resident creators in TOKAS made her critical perspective about the art in Japan more clear than before, and also gave her the opportunity to begin working on time-based arts.

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