Sprout Curation : AKZIDENZ

28 May – 25 Jun 2016

Sprout Curation : AKZIDENZ 5.28 - 6.25, 2016 Date: May,28[Sut]-June,25[Sut]. 2016 Venue: AOYAMA|MEGURO [2-30-6 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo] Hours: Tuesday - Saturday Open: 12:00-19:00 Closed on Sundays, Mondays and National holidays) Artists: Shunsuke Kano Keisuke Tada Noriaki Hattori Curation: Yoshikazu Shiga (Sprout Curation) Contact: info@sprout-curation.com Cooperation: AOYAMA|MEGURO/ Maki Fine Arts AKZIDENZ Statement The world is filled with accidents… Just a second ago, there were infinite possibilities of making a completely different present. AKZIDENZ, a group show presenting works of 3 Japanese male artists born in the 1980’s, had been originally planned with a tentative title “Instead of Someone”. This ‘someone’ does not refer to a specific person, but ‘someone’ who is not anyone; which means ‘human’. Instead of human–or if I put it in another way–what would the world be without human? In fact, this questioning about the world without the presence of human had been considered pointless and historically dismissed, due to the finitude of human cognition. However, in recent years, the so-called “Speculative Realism(Quentin Meillassoux)” rejected Kant’s “Correlationism” and claimed that the world is filled with contingency. On the other hand, taking its position away from Naïve Realism, it has grown to become a great philosophical movement together with “New Realism (Graham Harman)”. In organizing this small group exhibition, I was eager to grasp that the world actually is filled with accidents. As I was seeking to replace the initial title to describe this concept more straight forwardly, I happened to come across a font-list in my Mac PC. It was a classic font called “Akzidenz Grotesk” (which is used for Asahi TV logotype). Feeling suddenly strange about the name of the font having Akzidenz included within, I looked up its meaning, which was defined “accident (German)”. The English word “Accident” has been familiar to us Japanese; however it tends to provoke negative impressions related to accidents. Also, if people imagine ‘happening’ from the word, there would be none of that element in this exhibition. I immediately reported the three artists that the title would be changed to AKZIDENZ–this seemingly unfamiliar German word. (Yoshikazu Shiga) _ Shunsuke Kano b.1983 kanoshunsuke.net _ Keisuke Tada b.1986 keisuke-tada.com _ Noriaki Hattori b.1981 noriakihattori.com _