藤井 健司
Kenji Fujii
Sounds of One Hand
Sounds of One Hand
油煙墨、ラピスラズリ、色墨、和紙
Oil-soot-ink, Lapis lazuli, and Color pigments on Mulberry paper
H1600xW1200mm
2023
@Kenji Fujii
ARTIST INFORMATION
1981年東京都生まれ。武蔵野美術大学日本画科中退。2011年より横浜とバンクーバーを拠点とする。幼少期に水墨画、曼荼羅に魅了され、自然の曼荼羅の様な絵画制作を志す。学生時代、打楽器演奏中に音を視覚イメージとして捉えたことで「観音」という言葉に興味を持つ。20代半ばには禅寺の住職に白隠慧鶴の公案「隻手音声」を問われ、大きな影響を受ける。以来、「観音」と「隻手音声」を根幹に作品を制作している。主な展覧会として、2006年「日本X画展」（横浜美術館、横浜）、絵巻「彼南模様」（2006年作）が横浜美術館に収蔵されている。
Born in 1981 in Tokyo, Japan. Studied Japanese Painting at Musashino Art University, but did not complete degree program. Based in Yokohama and Vancouver since 2011. He was fascinated by Asian traditional ink paintings and mandalas around his kindergarten student time, and aspired to create paintings that have essence of mandalas of nature. As an art school student, he became interested in the term ‘Kannon (Avalokiteshvara or Looking Sound)’ when he perceived the sound as a visual image while playing percussion instruments. In his mid-twenties, he was greatly influenced by a Zen priest who asked him about Ekaku Hakuin’s koan (Zen question), ‘Sekishuonjo or The Sound of One Hand’. Since then, ‘Kannon’ and ‘The Sound of One Hand’ became the core of his art works. The selected exhibitions: ‘NIHONGA Painting’ (Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, 2006). His emaki (picture scroll) ‘Scene of Penang’ (2006) is in the collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art.
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