A - taro Matsuo
Currently on exhibit at Ashiya Garo by A
- taro Matsuo is a series of artworks that are multi-layer collages
consisting of burned paper, magazines and pigments. What is so intriguing about
these artworks by Matsuo is that they tend to
represent a kind of time travel because in a sense he appears to be
creating a kind of fourth dimension in object making, meaning one can feel the
sense of his studio praxis as it happened within this exhibition, it’s
like being in two places at the same time and it's a very strange sensation
indeed.
It's not often one observes artworks that appear to resonate a
sensation of travelling back wards into time where apriori events of making can been
experienced with such clarity as evidenced in the aforementioned artworks, and
this is where Matsuo's exhibition becomes
all the more stranger.
For example, in the above image of Matsuo's collage there is a
very strong sensation of travelling or almost falling back into the time of his
studio praxis and it is true humans cannot travel back into time but artists
can pursue their own artworks back into time If Matsuo choose too!
And this is where the ideas resonating from Matsuo's exhibition
becomes very thought-provoking so lets speculate a little bit, imagine if he takes the above art object off the wall within this exhibition and reworks the original sensation
from apriori praxis through travelling backwards with his memory through time, it
will no longer be the same artwork, if or when he places the art object back
within the gallery space, even if the artworks title has not changed, he has
destroyed the original intentionality's of the first creation.
Matsuo artworks appears to alert one to the concepts of shifting
dimensions of time, for if Matsuo returns to the apriori memories of
praxis then alters the
artwork at the top of the page, his remembrances will be guiding the studio praxis in
the duration of making art , from two differing spaces of remembered time thus causing a memory oscillation
within praxis between the past and the moment which is very interesting.
It seems physical time travel within human memory may well possible
and that is what this exhibition by Matsuo apparently reveals to us. This is an inspiring show by Matsuo, he appears
to allow the audience to ponder possibilities from this world and that's how
life and artistic praxis should be, left open and not closed off. So if you’re
in Ashiya please visit this most interesting exhibition. Link to gallery is
below.
Link to Ashiya Garo
http://www.ashiya-garo.com/work/20150301_matsuo.html
