Seoul
Tokyo
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It has been
15years since Today's Art Textile Exhibition began. Many fond memories come mind as I recall the first exhibition at Tokyo's Harajuku Art Gallery in 1985. After college，I began my Career as a designer. Since that time I have continued to crate textile art finding freedom from traditional categories. While I was working as a textile designer I was studding how to fuse art and design. For me they existed in the same dimension. Then as a teacher, I created a program based on textile expressions giving students a tough, yet enjoyable experience creating art. To produce art and design means to produce something from nothing. So my plan was to teach students the excitement of creating and to do consolidate the foundation on the future. When I was young I wanted to be a painter, but my father was against me becoming a painter or actor. But to create is to have a dream and face reality then bring then together using the body in various ways. There is the cosmos there is this world and people. I had many energizing experience bringing those things together. Now I think my job is like an actor too. The advantage of teaching is the pure exchange between teacher and student. My own Art began to fuse with my teaching when I started teaching 15 years ago. That was my turning point. I am thinking about various broad expressions of textile art. The origin of fiber art in history has a different form than other areas. One reason is that fiber materials were worn on peoples bodies. The techniques of dying which were developed by all nations and climates were produced for ordinary purpose related to people's bodies and for some more abstract purpose. For example, in the movie The Happy Yel1ow Handkerchief a fabric is used as tool. In that movie several yellow handkerchiefs were displayed by a wife to welcome her husband home after a long absence. But why should the fabric be yellow? It communicated feeling of joy and was therefore a powerful message for that movie. Communication through color. In the last scene many yellow handkerchiefs against a blue sky were a symbolic metaphor for wife's emotion for her husband producing unusual space and atmosphere with color and form. By understanding such a scene and analyzing the relationship between things, by means of artistic expression we can grasp textile as a abstract expression. The Biennial international Tapestry Exhibition rendered remarkable services toward giving fiber art an opportunity in progressive expression. Also it suggested a different viewpoint from the traditional expression through clothing. The fifteenth show was titled, 15th International Lausanne Biennial Contemporary Textile Art. it showed wide Creative expression and fit the times． The idea called SOSHO and SOKOKU are Very important thoughts in art expression. The cycle of the five essential elements which are explained by INYOGOGYO brings the birth of the universe and life. We can think about art in the same way. SOSHO means Fire is born of Wood, Earth is born of Fire Metal is born of Earth, Water is born of Metal and Wood is born of Water. SOKOKU means Wood fights Earth, Earth fights Water, Water fights Fire, Fire fights Metal and Metal fights wood. These principles are based on the philosophy called universe. When I was young I looked for eternity in my art. I didn't stick to just fiber but I used it a great deal and though about its eternal value. Eventually all things made by man will vanish. That means art must vanish too. So in 1985 I presented The Hamamatsu Open-Air Exhibition as a result of my thoughts. Since then my theme has vanishing change and time. I think my vision becomes wider by accepting relationships between things. I have met many interesting people through teaching art. Recently people talk about living together. In the twentieth century various areas of endeavors flowered and developed deeply, but the twenty-first century will be a time for unity. Today's Art Textile Exhibition is a slow but steady progression of my expression through the medium of textiles. The purpose that many people can understand textiles are attractive and an opportunity for my through art. We got a lot of support from art galleries museums and other people. The number of students studding abroad is increasing so we asked those students to join our exhibition. This exhibition isn't known so well butＩ'm pleased because people have shown me understanding. Today's Art Textile started mainly from graduates of Musashino Art University but not lot of people have joined us. Another important thing is friendship. Artists should understand that the exhibition is held in various locations so that artists can be go and meet many different people. I also wanted to hold our exhibition in different countries. So my dream has come true in Korea. Thanks to my former students efforts we could achieve it I heard fiber art are very popular in Korea through my former students. I also respect Korea for its vast artistic wealth. I'd like to say thank you again for opening my Mokumuto Gallery. I am also going to present my exhibition at Sembikiya Gallery in Tokyo in 2001. Today's Art Textile Exhibition will continue patiently, looking forward to meeting many people and seeing and many works of art.
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