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New Creators Competition 2012 Exhibitions "Hakari-shiran" (Measure and Learn)

CCC’s competitive program to support budding creatives, New Creators Competition 2012, had many exhibit plans submitted. All were of high quality so after critical screening, exhibits by 3 winners were chosen.

New Creators Competition 2012 Exhibitions
"Ame" (Rain)
Producer: Tomomi Takanoa

"Urayama no Tori" (Birds in the Back Hill)
Producer: Keisuke Takahashi

"Hakari-shiran" (Measure and Learn)
Producer: Hiroshi Tanigawa


■ When: 2012.01.16 (mon)–02.18 (sat)10:00–20:30 (closed sundays & holidays)
■ Where: the center for creative communications (CCC)
■ Organizer: the center for creative communications (CCC)
■ Judges: Shiriagari Kotobuki (manga artist), Taro Igarashi (architect), Hideyuki Kume (CCC producer), Hisami Omori (CCC curator)
■ Free entrance

"Hakari-shiran" (Measure and Learn)
Producer: Hiroshi Tanigawa(Aichi)

We have marked our limitless world with degrees to capture it. “To measure” is our tool for having a common recognition of the world, and also it is an expression of our intellectual curiosity and desire to understand the world. In this opportunity, I'd like to think about “to measure” which is this deeply ingrained sense of body in the classroom where we learned how to measure and a scale. A sense of security which the fiducial power gives to us, and something overflowing from there. Gradation. Inevitability and fortuity. Precognition or omen we never measure and things like the sense of human being. I think that “hakari-shiran” which comes through measuring is the key to understand the various aspects of this fertile and complicated world. Over the sense of helplessness towards something unmeasurable. (Hiroshi Tanigawa)

■ Judges Comments
I felt his work is like a kids' science project possessing a simplicity and innocent curiosity that will bloom as an art here in this former elementary school, CCC. I look forward to see how he will create the space with various works based on the theme of measuring.
(Shiriagari Kotobuki)

Mr.Tanigawa is an architect actively working on art projects. In this project, he proposes a work which aims to measure the world and ask us the thing which isunmeasurable at the same time. He shows various ideas in a lively style by touching up familiar school tools such as mobiles, a protractor, and a set square. The series which uses pictures of the junctions of a river's flow path, among others, seems to be enough for solo exhibit in the White Cube. However, considering the specific characteristic of CCC as a place, I rather felt that his exhibit will be suitable for a bit strange space produced like a science classroom with a blackboard and many works in it.
(Taro Igarashi)

Profile
Hiroshi Tanigawa (谷川寛)

2000: Finished B-semi
2001: Graduated from Yokohama National University
2003: Completed Special Graduate Courses, Tokyo University of the Arts.

2000: Chosen in JCD Design Award
2002: Won the first prize in Art Benching
2003: Won in Salon de Plantan Award
2008: Chosen in Arts Challenge, Aichi Art Program, Won the Jury's Special Award in Mio Photo Award
2010: Chosen in Aichi Triennale Competition
2011: Chosen in Ueno Hikoma Award
Artist's website