Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award - Presented by: Contemporary Art Collectors
Masaki Hirokawa / 廣川政樹 - Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award Winner - Contemporary Art Collectors
I am honored to have been awarded the "Global Art Virtuoso Award 2024" by Contemporary Art Collectors. I am deeply grateful for this prestigious and fortunate opportunity. This award recognizes the exceptional talent, deep commitment, and innovative approach of artists, and I am truly honored to have received such a valuable acknowledgment. Moving forward, I will continue to explore new expressions, touch people's hearts through art, and convey even the slightest emotions through my works. I am profoundly grateful for the constant support and this unexpected gift, and I thank everyone involved once again.

Contemporary Art Collectors より、国際芸術賞「Global Art Virtuoso Award 2024」を授与いただきました。栄誉ある恵まれた機会に心より感謝いたします。こちらの賞は芸術家の卓越した才能、深いコミットメント、そして革新的なアプローチを称えるものであり、このような有り難い評価を受けたことを大変光栄に思います。今後も新しい表現を追究し、芸術を通じて人々の心に触れ、僅かでも感動を伝え得る作品を制作して参ります。常日頃からの支えと、この予期せぬ贈り物に、改めて御礼申し上げます。
Reclining Buddha / 涅槃像, 2020. Digital Media and Photo Collage, 81 x 64 cm - Masaki Hirokawa / 廣川政樹
Reclining Buddha / 涅槃像, October 2020. Digital Media and Photo Collage, 100 x 80 cm.

Description: 
I imagine the place of my birth to be so beautiful that I might mistake it for the cosmic ocean. The place at which I finally arrive, where I return. I can no longer hear that song anymore, and I cannot even remember that beloved, nostalgic voice. One day, I shall deliver this soul to Nirvana. Together with the billowing midnight smoke, rising high into the sky.

私の生まれたところは、きっと創造の海と見紛うほど美しかっただろう。私の往くところは、還るところは。もうあの唄も聞こえず、懐かしいあの声すら思い出せない。いつかこの魂を涅槃へ届ける。空高く立ち昇る夜半の煙とともに。
Archetypus / 元型, 2020. Digital Media and Photo Collage, 120 x 96 cm - Masaki Hirokawa / 廣川政樹
Archetypus / 元型, July 2020. Digital Media and Photo Collage, 140 x 112 cm.

Description: 
This artwork, titled "Archetypus," explores the theme of "Repetition and a Return to the Archetypal," featuring repeated duplications of a woman adorned with a bird mask, signifying humanity's inherent desires. The piece articulates the necessity of a logical structure underpinning art and civilization itself. In this narrative, logic serves merely as a restraint on the senses, propelling a perpetual cycle akin to reflections in facing mirrors, without an end, merely looping within a nested structure. This endless cycle could well represent the construction of human history, culture, warfare, and conflicts, extending to the cosmos itself.

この作品では「原型への回帰と反復」というテーマに沿って、鳥の仮面を被った女性を繰り返し複製しています。これは人間の持つ熾烈な願望を表現しています。狂気を支える論理がアート作品または人類の文明には必要不可欠であり、作家にとって論理は感覚を抑える手段に過ぎないため、両者の共存が合わせ鏡のような反復を生むことになります。そこには終焉がなく、ただ入れ子構造になった世界がループしているのみです。人類の歴史や文化、戦争、紛争、そして宇宙もこのようにして構築されて来たのではないでしょうか。

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