柿沼康二 / Koji Kakinuma 柿沼康二 / Koji Kakinuma

アーティスト / 書家。
1970年 栃木県矢板市生まれ。
「書はアートたるか、己はアーティストたるか」の命題に挑戦し続け、伝統的な書の技術と前衛的な精神による独自のスタイルは、書という概念を超越し「書を現代アートまで昇華させた」と国内外で高い評価を得る。
2007年放映予定のNHK大河ドラマ「風林火山」では、タイトル揮毫(きごう)の他、番組オープニングに多くの美術作品を提供。またNHK「トップランナー」、TBS「情熱大陸」などのテレビ出演、国内外個展やワークショップの開催など、多方面で活動する。

伝統書から特大筆によるダイナミックな超大作、トランス書と称される新表現まで、そのパフォーマンス性は幅広く、これまでNYメトロポリタン美術館、フィラデルフィア美術館、プリンストン大学、アート・インスティテュート・オブ・シカゴ、新極真空手ヨーロッパ大会、愛知EXPO、鼓童(KODO)アース・セレブレーションなど世界各地で披露され、好評を博す。
現在、アメリカ・ニュージャージー州プリンストン大学で特別研究員として、2006年9月から1年間プリンストンに在住。

Born in 1970 in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, a rural area two hours north of Tokyo, Kakinuma began studying traditional Japanese monochrome brushwork at the age of five. Kakinuma's own father, Suiryu, a renowned artist in his own right, was his first teacher and also introduced him to one of the greatest artistic influences of his life: Yukei Teshima. The flamboyant Teshima, who received international acclaim for his bold, powerful work among artists such as Picasso and Matisse, took the young Kakinuma under his wing, calling him the most promising student he had ever seen. After Teshima's death, Kakinuma continued study under one of Teshima's disciples and a giant in his own right in the Japanese monochromatic art world, Ichizyo Uematsu. In 1989, Kakinuma entered the prestigious Tokyo University of Arts and Letters as a student in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. It was soon afterward, in 1990, that he arrived on the national stage when he became the youngest person ever to win the coveted Dokuritsu Shojindan Foundation prize for his interpretation of a classical work by the late-Edo period artist Suo Nukina.

Kakinuma's rise through the Japanese art world has been meteoric, winning one prestigious competition after another, having his life and paintings featured in several televised documentaries, and being invited to demonstrate and show his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Kakinuma has constantly sought to break free from the strictures of his classical training and to express himself in innovative, experimental ways. His affinity for massively large monumental works reflects his belief that these large pieces, whose sheer size overwhelm the intellectual capacity of the artist, force him to paint in accordance with what he calls the Eternal Now. The Eternal Now represents a one-shot, winner-take-all sensibility that permits no uncertainty and no hesitation, and allows no regrets and no revision. It is the quintessential expression of Japanese art – bringing together the years of tedious, repetitive study of technique and theory with the dynamism of the psycho-spiritual energy manifesting itself at a specific instant in time. Another of his trademark innovations is that of Trancework, where he paints countless repetitions of a simple, powerful phrase as he falls deeper and deeper into a trance.
Invited to be a visiting researcher at Princeton University for the 2006-2007 academic year, Kakinuma now resides in Princeton, New Jersey. His most recent work, The Warrior Ideal was selected as the title artwork for the 2007 season of Japan's most popular long-running television show, The Taiga Drama Series.

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Youtube"という不思議な媒体
5/20/2007
こちらアメリカではYoutube、My page、Winnyなど話題になる
ことが多く、友人知人がいろんな情報をくれます。
でも何も分からない俺は「あれれっ!」とか「なんだこれは?」と
驚かされるばかりです。日本からもUSからもすっかり遠ざかり
自分の国を確立しつつあります。








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不幸な事に一生自分のパフォーマンスを見れない運命にある私。
こう見てみると何人かの柿沼康二がいる事に今更ながら気付く。
「柿ちゃん、がんばって〜きゃ〜!」って叫ぶカキヌマコウジや
「お前、マジ頭大丈夫かぁ〜」て心配するかきぬまこうじもいる。
それをこうしてキーボード打ってるKoji kakinumaがいる。









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