Paintings

UGETSU 有月 aka RYOSUKE HANDA 伴田良輔

Artist

Born in Kyoto

Based in Japan

Painting

Prints

Byobu

Fusuma-e

clothe

kimono

Objects

レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチは、その晩年、大洪水による世界の没落の幻想にとらえられ、大地を浸食する凄まじい水の渦を描き続けた。有月の繊細にして奔放なドローイングは、レオナルドのそれに似て、しかし世界の没落というよりはむしろ世界の生成を司る形象のように思われる。渦はまた螺旋でもあり、これは有機無機を問わず自然界を貫く根本的な線的形象かもしれないのである。有月の作品を前にして感動するとすれば、それは文字どおりわれわれの内なる生命を貫く線的形象が共鳴しているからにほかなるまい。

　　　　 谷川渥　美学

Leonardo da Vinci, obsessed with visions of the world collapsing in a deluge late in his life, kept drawing gigantic swirls of water eroding the earth. While delicate and still bold drawings done by Ugetsu resemble those of Leonardo's, they would more likely impress us as phenomenon of the world in the making, rather than in the process of collapsing. The spiraling swirls, organic or inorganic, might as well be fundamental lines piercing through the natural world.

When we are moved by the works of UGETSU, we are literally experiencing a resonance between his lines and the lines piercing through our inner life.

Atsushi Tanikawa art critic