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OA06
レジデンス11ヶ月と8日目
ほんじつのOA紹介は、アフリカはジンバブエからのペインターPatrickです。私は彼の作品が大好きで、Patrickも私の作品が大好きなので、OA後に作品を何点か交換しました。
彼はいつも、自分と同じアフリカ人、黒人の姿を描きます。サイズもそんなに大きくありません(だいたいが15~20号くらい)。派手なアクションではなく、数人の男性が路上でたむろしているところや、路上でタクシーに寄りかかって親密そうに話す男女の姿や、男性が壁のペンキ塗りをしているところや、ベッドにただ横たわる姿など。彼の視線が捉えたそれらのシーンと彼の絵の具が、何かを主張するわけでもなく、「ある一定の距離感」を見せてくれます。その「距離感」は、離れていることというよりは近さを、開いているというよりは閉じたところを指していて、つまり絵の具で作られることによる親密性と、平面であることによる近寄れなさが両立しているので、平面に絵の具がおいてあることが心地よく見えます。黒人労働者の「路上における室内性」(または室内における路上性)とでもいうべきモチーフと、平面に絵の具というマテリアルがとてもよく合っているのです。彼の作品をみていると、ペインティングの1つの幸せな状態を見ているようで気分がいいです。
夜になると自転車に乗ってスタジオにやってきて、ビールと煙草を片手にペインティングを仕上げていく彼の姿が、来年は見られないのでさみしいです。
06,Patrick Makumbe
[写真 上から] 写真は上3枚がペインティング、4枚目は別室で見せていたドローイング。
The first three are paintings; the fourth one is a drawing shown in a different room.
OA06
Today, I’d like to introduce the works of Patrick, a painter from Zimbabwe, Africa. As I like his works a lot, and he likes my works a lot, we exchanged some paintings after OA.
He always paints Black Africans like himself. The paintings are not so big – about size 15 to 20. He rarely paints dramatic scenes: a few men sitting together on a street, a man and a woman talking intimately leaning against a taxi, a man painting a wall, a man lying on a bed... and so on. Neither these ‘scenes’ nor the way he paints them urges anything. Instead, his paintings show that there is ‘a certain distance.’ This sense of distance, however, makes you feel closeness rather than distance, and sense of interiority rather than exteriority; in other words, in Patrick’s paintings, there is familiarity which the paint creates, at the same time there is formality which the two-dimensionality creates. The sense of distance in his paintings thus make us feel comfortable about the fact that we are looking at a flat surface covered by some paint – the fact that we are looking at paintings. The motif of his paintings – the black workers’ ‘interiority on streets’ (or streets within a room) – also fits perfectly into the way his paintings are. To me, his paintings realize one of the happiest states of paintings. They make me happy.
Patrick comes to his studio at night. Smoking, and a beer in his hand, he finishes his paintings one after another – this I cannot see next year. I will miss him a lot.
06. Patrick Makumbe