“Artist and the Model”
Jun 01 Sat - Jul 12Sat, 2019
「画家とモデル」
ShugoArts
会 期| 2019年06月01日(土) – 2019年07月12日(土)
Exhibistion View
Traditionally, the relationship between an artist and a model was “to see and to be seen” or “to paint or to be
painted.” However, a model can sometimes go beyond the relationship, affect her artistʼs sensitivity and act as a
mediator who makes the invisible visible. For Kobayashi, he started painting in high school to visualize the person
he fell in love with for the first time. Since then, his models have been the source of his creations and also his co-creators.
Kobayashiʼs artworks are not isolated objects but paintings that exist in this planetʼs time and space. In order to visualize his concept, he abandoned the rectangle frame in the 1990s and created his own method to combine
his soul and body by painting with his own hands while stretching the canvas at the same time. In addition, since the 2000s, Kobayashi has created many artworks that expand the border between the abject and the beautiful.
In this exhibition Kobayashi, who started making pieces for the exhibition in 2017, presents the model lying sideways and facing backwards who is shot through the heart from behind and also the horse (the artist) that has a brush in its mouth, grinding its teeth. The relationship between the two characters is very mysterious and it does not really suggest a happy ending. In this process, the artist lives through reality and painting, and connects the past and the present moment in order to form beauty. His action is mysterious and cannot be
achieved by himself, so Kobayashi keeps creating under the same theme: Artist and the Model so that he can dedicate his art to this planet.
May 2019 ShugoArts
古くは画家とモデルの関係性は「⾒る - ⾒られる」「描く- 描かれる」というものでしたが、時としてモデルはその状態を超えて画家の感性に触れ、⾒えないものに形を与える媒介的な役⽬を果たすこともあります。
⾼校時代に愛する⼈物を描くため芸術の世界に⾜を踏み⼊れた⼩林にとって、モデルは創作の根源的な動機であり、また共同制作者であり続けました。
⼩林の作品は孤⽴した物体ではなく、この星の時空間に存在する絵画です。その⼀つの答えとして90 年代に⼩林は⻑⽅形の枠を⾶び出し、キャンバスを張りながら⼿で描くという絵画の魂と⾁体を⼀つに合わせるような⽅法論を創出しました。また00 年代からはひどい絵から美しい絵の境界線を拡張するような作品を数々⽣み出してきました。
2017 年から制作を始めた今展では、後ろ向きに横たわり背中から⼼臓を撃ち抜かれたモデルと、筆を咥えて⻭噛みをする⾺（画家）がそれぞれ描かれ展⽰されます。両者の関係性は謎に満ち、決してハッピーエンドを迎えるものとも限りません。しかしその過程のなかで画家は現実と画を⽣き抜き、過去も現在も統合し美を結実させます。その⾏為は神秘的であり、ひとりでなし得ることが出来ないからこそ、⼩林はこの星に捧げる作品として画家とモデルをテーマに制作を続けます。
2019 年5 ⽉ シュウゴアーツ
 Portrait od the artist
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 Model of this planet 180x330x60cm
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 Unnamed #61 70x135x10cm
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 Unnamed #63 47x60x7cm
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 Unnamed #65 28x36x5cm
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 Unnamed #64 30x38x6cm |
 Unnamed #62 21x34x4.5cm |
 Study on Deteminism and Free |
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