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Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, They Live

Hiroki Tsukuda

They Live

Installation view

2020

Hiroki Tsukuda, Call of Silver Death

Hiroki Tsukuda

Call of Silver Death

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

71.3 x 96.1 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Voice from the O 05

Hiroki Tsukuda

Voice from the O 05

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

24.1 x 30.4 x 1.5 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, The Plan 1

Hiroki Tsukuda

The Plan 1

2019

Charcoal, ink and color pencil on paper, c-print, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

19.3 x 19.3 x 2.5 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Wasteland 01

Hiroki Tsukuda

Wasteland 01

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

Dimensions variable

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Wasteland 02

Hiroki Tsukuda

Wasteland 02

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

Dimensions variable

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Hiroki Tsukuda, The Plan 9

Hiroki Tsukuda

The Plan 9

2019

Charcoal, ink and color pencil on paper, c-print, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

19.3 x 19.3 x 2.5 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Offworld

Hiroki Tsukuda

Offworld

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

Dimensions variable

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Hiroki Tsukuda, The Record 09

Hiroki Tsukuda

The Record 09

2019

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, c-print, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

19.4 x 19.4 x 2.6 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Neon Demon

Hiroki Tsukuda

Neon Demon

2019

Charcoal, ink and pencil on paper, wood panel with acrylic frame

94.5 x 141.7 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, The Record 08

Hiroki Tsukuda

The Record 08

2019

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, c-print, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

22.8 x 18.9 x 2.6 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Vol. 31

Hiroki Tsukuda

Vol. 31

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

68.9 x 49.2 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Vol. 13

Hiroki Tsukuda

Vol. 13

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

68.9 x 49.2 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Wasteland 03

Hiroki Tsukuda

Wasteland 03

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

Dimensions variable

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Your God

Hiroki Tsukuda

Your God

2019

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

115 x 107.9 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Voice from the O 02

Hiroki Tsukuda

Voice from the O 02

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

Diameter: 39.4 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Abyssal Grid

Hiroki Tsukuda

Abyssal Grid

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

59.8 x 83.1 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Vol. 91

Hiroki Tsukuda

Vol. 91

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

68.9 x 49.2 x 1.7 inches

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Hiroki Tsukuda, Vol. 13

Hiroki Tsukuda

Vol. 13

2020

Charcoal, acrylic ink, and pencil on paper, wood panel with silkscreen printed acrylic frame

68.9 x 49.2 x 1.7 inches

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Videos

Hiroki Tsukuda: They Live, a film by ArtDrunk

Virtual walkthrough of Hiroki Tsukuda: They Live

Press Release

Petzel Gallery is pleased to present They Live, a solo exhibition of new works by Hiroki Tsukuda. The show will be on view from March 5 to June 10, 2020 and marks Tsukuda’s second exhibition at the gallery’s Chelsea location. An opening reception with the artist will be held on Thursday, March 5th, from 6–8pm.

In reference to John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic film with the same name, They Live presents a dystopian reality whereby current society has become surreptitiously controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials. Enamored by sci-fi since early childhood, Tsukuda has drawn inspiration from dystopic thrillers, apocalyptic novels, and cyberpunk manga. These fictions have percolated into the artist’s consciousness, transforming his ideas and artistic practice.

Working in the realms of drawing and digital collage, Tsukuda creates multi-dimensional pictures by compositing a profusion of found and created images and coding them with computerized characters and cryptic hieroglyphics. The resulting images appear in states of controlled chaos and organic mutation, edging on a pictorial language that merges cyberpunk fantasy and real-life space exploration. Some of these abstractions hang off of large hollow wooden enclosures while a set of four bionic figures suspend from vacant steel-pipe scaffolds. Rocks, driftwood, and other organic materials are presented on wooden shelves alongside these cybernetic environments.

This exhibition also features work that combines photographs and improvisational drawings, and engages with a new technique in which geometries and cartographic representations are rendered onto acrylic frames through silkscreen printing.

Hiroki Tsukuda was born in Kagawa, Japan in 1978, and graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Musashino Art University. In recent years he has received increasing international acclaim with numerous solo exhibitions including Monolog in the Doom, Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 2019; 199X Storm Garden, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2019; 199X, Nanzuka, Tokyo, 2018; Hour of Excavation, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany, 2017; Hiroki Tsukuda, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany, 2017. A largescale work was recently acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His work is included in private and public collections worldwide.

Petzel Gallery is located at 456 West 18th Street New York, NY 10011. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 AM–6:00 PM. For press inquires, please contact Ricky Lee at ricky@petzel.com, or call (212) 680-9467.


この度Petzel Galleryは、佃弘樹による新作個展「They Live」を開催致します。本展覧会は、チェルシー地区の当ギャラリーにおける佃にとって二度目の個展であり、2020年3月5日から4月18日まで開催されます。オープニングレセプションは、アーティストを囲んで、3月5日(木曜日)午後6時から8時に開催致します。

本展覧会のタイトルは、カルト映画の名作として名高い1988年に制作されたジョン・カーペンターによる『They Live』に由来します。我々の現代社会が地球外から来たヒューマノイドによってひそかに制御されるようになったデストピアの世界を描いた映画で、佃はこうした退廃的なスリラー、終末論的な小説、サイバーパンク漫画といったサイエンスフィクションに熱中して幼少期を過ごしました。これらのフィクションへの傾倒は、アーティストとしての自意識、アイデアの源泉、作品を創作する上での芸術的なメソッドとして、常に重要な役割を果たしてきました。

手描きのドローイングとデジタルコラージュを駆使して作品を制作する佃は、インターネット上などで探した大量の画像や、自ら描いたイメージ、あるいは自ら撮影した写真などを合成し、そこにデジタル文字や読解不可能な象形文字などを暗号的に配置することで、作品のソースを作ります。結果として生まれたイメージは、サイバーパンク的なフィクションと現実世界の宇宙探査などを想起させる視覚的言語を縁取った、制御されたカオスと有機的な変異を示唆します。

こうして抽象化された作品は、巨大な木目の壁に囲われる形で展示されたり、時に工業用の足場などに用いられるスチール製のパイプを組み立てた構造体に吊り下げられます。また、そのようなサイバネティックな演出と並行して、岩、流木、家庭用植物などが、作品と一緒に木製の棚に置かれることもあります。

本展覧会では、即興で描かれたドローイングに写真を組み合わせた新作も紹介します。また、ペーパードローイングと一体化しているアクリル製のフレームに、幾何学や地図投影を想起させるようなイメージをシルクスクリーンで印刷した新たな手法の作品も展示されます。

佃弘樹は、1978年香川県生まれ、武蔵野美術大学映像学科を卒業。以後、東京を拠点に活動しています。近年は、「Hour of Excavation」(Neuer Aachener Kunstverein、アーヘン、ドイツ、2017)、「Hiroki Tsukuda」(Galerie Gisela Capitain、ケルン、ドイツ、2017)、「Enter the O」(Petzel、ニューヨーク、2016)、「199X」(Nanzuka、2018)、「Monolog in the Doom」(群馬県立近代美術館、2019)と精力的に展覧会を開催。ニューヨーク近代美術館、森美術館に作品が収蔵されるなど、その国際的な評価を急速に高めています。