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Explanation of the new work "Break Zenya in Yokohama" (Please read only if you are interested)

  • Writer: Keisuke Tsuchida
    Keisuke Tsuchida
  • Jun 21
  • 2 min read

(Note) The description of the work may limit the viewer's imagination, so if you want to view the work with an open mind, please do not read it, or read it later, after seeing the work.



The future of us who are alive today, and of our children yet to be born, is being devoured by the structure of money and power.

In this reality, politicians, drowning in power and losing sight of their footing due to their inflated desires, appear to me as monsters of empty greed who only speak clever words.

A long-lasting sense of stagnation and an air of resignation permeates the air.

It is precisely because of the times we live in that I wanted to portray "brilliance" (pride, poverty, innocence) that would counter that.

It is not an angry cry, nor a cynical, resigned attitude that says, "It won't work anyway."

No matter how murky the outside world may be, it is a quiet and stubborn battle in which one continues to search for the "brilliance" within oneself.

It was with this thought in mind that I created the two new works on display this time.


"Fighting Girl"

When people realize that what they believed in was fake, they may collapse to their knees and mutter, "I've had enough."

But even so, he believes that the radiance that has sprouted within him, and the desire to "be a certain way," is real, and he stands up to regain that "radiance" once again.

This work depicts a girl who finds hope in despair and stands up against hypocrisy and deception, drawn with rougher, stronger pencil lines than my other works. A weak yet strong "fighting girl" who is not swayed by her environment or external factors, and tries to grasp the "true brilliance" within herself.

This image is surely something that resides somewhere within us, and it is also a form of "courage."


"Lux Memoria - Memory of Light"

A middle-aged soldier astride a strange beast, and an innocent young girl protected on his back. The beast's head is filled with sunlight, and its wings resemble the night sky - this work was created to encapsulate in a single painting the story of "brilliance" that is woven across thousands of nights.

If "Fighting Girl" is a work that depicts the "battle" of those living in the "present," then "Lux Memoria" is a work that emphasizes memories of the "past," and a "lightness" that blows away the gloomy atmosphere.



Even in the darkness of hopelessness, like Viktor E. Frankl's "Night Fog," I want to never lose sight of the faint, flickering light. There is no night that does not end, and the Berlin Wall that has existed since I was born will also fall. Please come and see these two stories filled with such wishes.

 
 
 

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