Satoshi HASHIMOTO : Everything and Others (LISTE 2016 – Art Fair Basel)

Satoshi HASHIMOTO, Pie Charts: Everything and Others, 2014

LISTE 2016 - Art Fair Basel

Satoshi HASHIMOTO

Everything and Others

Booth # 331


Date: June 14 - 19
Preview:
Monday, June 13th 2016, 12 am - 5 pm
Vernissage:
Monday, June 13th 2016, 5 pm - 9 pm

LISTE Art Fair Basel
Burgweg 15 - CH- 4058 Basel, Switzerland
www.liste.ch

Aoyama Meguro is pleased to announce the solo exhibiton of Satoshi HASHIMOTO at LISTE - Art Fair Basel 2016

Artist:
Satoshi HASHIMOTO

Artspace:
http://www.artspace.com/partners/aoyama_meguro

BlouinArt info
Sneak Peek: What to Expect at LISTE 2016

Satoshi Hashimoto: Everything and others

The weight scale placed in the gallery is not an object of your vision. Conversely, that scale objectifies your mass. The mass of the Earth is 5.972 x 10^24kg. Your body weight is included in the value. But the proportion is extremely low. The world is almost entirely composed of things other than you. But we actually perceive the world in more complex way.
What percentage of the weather forecast whose rainfall probability is 100% can go wrong? The space of probability and statistics consists of supposing a whole (Ω) and dividing it. However, there are “others” which always exist and are not included in the “everything.” Hashimoto has conducted diverse activities that extend beyond existing frameworks of art. Outside of the gallery space, he buried himself on a river bank, wet his pants at lectures, and ate park pigeons. But he is not an outsider of the art world. He also conducted research on the authorized history of art from Leonardo da Vinci to Robert Smithson and exhibited the results at galleries and museums. But he is not an insider, either. He explores the other side of the distinctive system composed of the dichotomy of the outside/inside.

The viewer’s expectations on his artwork are frequently unfulfilled. There is no “artwork” there, a display of the creative act of the artist or its outcome. He brings disorder to the distinctive system of artist/artwork/viewer that makes the experience surrounding art static, although it was originally indeterminate. A hammer or paint sprays placed with the instructions of “You can hammer yourself” or “You can paint yourself” are not constative objects, but performative prompters of the viewer’s acts. The viewers become the subject as well as object of the acts such as hammering or painting. The viewers, performers in place of the artist, frequently lose their grasp on the subject of their acts, if the focus is on themselves or the artist who gave them the instructions. In “Arbitrary Decisions and Prejudices: I Divide the Audience,” viewers are lined up in front of the artist and evaluated only through their appearance. Here, the role of the artist and viewer is interchanged. The art viewer of the modern age is forced to perform a role of a critic who correctly appraises an artist through his/her artwork. By liberating the artist, artwork, and viewer from the role, the experience becomes insecure. He throws everything into a hole.

Katsumasa Matsui

Supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2014

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