‘The Past in Motion’

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KOTARO NUKAGA, Tennoz will be pleased to announce a group exhibition by nine artists, ‘The Past in Motion’ from August 7th (Sat) to October 16th (Sat), 2021. KOTARO NUKAGA coordinated installation of artworks in guest rooms, restaurants, and lounges of the auberge “HIRAMATSU Karuizawa Miyota” at Miyota City, beside Karuizawa City, Nagano-prefecture. In the theme of “a stay encountering the memories”, we aimed to rediscover the history of Miyota City and memories of its land, and arranged variety of artworks from Jomon pottery found under the auberge to Contemporary artworks. Based on this theme at the auberge, the next exhibition will deepen our thoughts towards the relationship between memories of the past and now. Where do we exist in this flowing time? If time is irreversible and is stretching one way like an arrow, we are facing a new future every moment in our consecutive events, moreover there are traces of the arrows, the past, behind us that keep the immense accumulation of events. The traces of villages and potteries by Jomon people tell us that their history truly existed at that place; therefore, we can say that all artworks regardless of their media or genre, is and will belong to the past. At the same time, if we do not have any memories, whether by a priori or one’s experience, we cannot find a way to percept the object in front of us. Even if we can see the object, the quality and value are decided subjectively based on one’s experiences. Therefore, to percept the present means referring to the past every time. If we state artworks as pins of the artist’s thoughts of that time, when we carefully reopen the memories inside the artwork, they will speak more than just an object. There will be diverse hooks that will interrogate viewers’ experiences and emotions. This rediscovery of the past through a new perspective will always be in motion.