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LOT 062

ISHIDA Tetsuya

Untitled

Detail

1999
Acrylic, steel on Takasaki dharma, beforing painting (paper, stucco, wood)
33.6 × 23.0 × 23.0 cm (13¼ × 9 × 9 in.)
Certificate of Authenticity by Gallery Q

Estimate

¥5,000,000 - 8,000,000

$36,200 - 58,000

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Provenance: Gallery Q, Tokyo

Exhibited: November 30 - December 24, 1999 "KAIUN GINZA DARUMA FESTIVAL" Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo
　 November 10 - December 28, 2006 "Can't Fly Anymore; Gifted Artist: Tetsuya Ishida - Youthful Self-portraits Exhibition & My Collection" Sumpu Art Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
September 7, 2013 - March 25, 2015 "Tetsuya Ishida Exhibition Notes, A Note of Dreams" Ashikaga Museum of Art, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Tonami Art Museum, Shizuoka Pref. Museum of Art, Japan

Literature: "Tetsuya Ishida Complete" Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., Ltd., 2010, P. 208 - 209
"Tetsuya Ishida Note" Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., Ltd., 2013, P. 152 - 153

Condition: Good condition. There are paint cracks and discoloration on the upper side of the work due to its aging. The work is fixed to the pedestal of the acrylic case with museum gel. The entire verso side has not been confirmed to protect the work.

Since 1990, Guardian Garden (Ginza, Tokyo) has held a charity event at the end of each year. Many designers and artists created artworks with a specific theme, such as "wall clocks", "eco bags" and "furoshiki (wrapping cloth). Ishida was the first to participate in the "Hinokishin" charity event in 1997.
Ishida has exhibited intermittently from the "HOT & COOL (Thermometer)" project in 1997 to the "JEANS SHOP GINZA (Jeans)" project in 2005. His exhibited works included a kite depicting a man transformed into a carrot and a clock depicting a man with the body of a crane truck. This work, based on the theme of "Design Daruma" for the 1999 project, is one of the few sculpture that Ishida has produced. The work skillfully utilizes the contours and shape of the Daruma doll, which was originally intended to be a constraint, to create the appearance of a human’s head with shedding tears fused together within a toilet bowl.
The viewer can sense the "anxiety about the uncertainty of the future" and "the complicated reality that people are facing today" in Ishida's works.