Etsutomu KASHIHARA Biography
1941 Born in Hyogo JAPAN
1965 BA Tama Art University Painting

Main Solo Exhibitions
EXHIBITION' (1970-1999)
MY METHODS INSPIRED BY MARILIN'(1972-1975)
UNRIPE BOXES'(1973-1974)
IMAGES OF DIAGRAMS'(1978-1981)
FROM THE ROOM S'(1987-1989) NOTES1999 'A PORTRAIT OF ERASER'(Kobayashi Gallery)
NOTES2000 'VERTIFICATION OF FLOTATION'(galerie16)
NOTES2007 'KLEIN'S POT OR ABOUT THE TIME OF PAINTINGS'(galerie16)

Main Group Exhibitions
1968 TRICKS AND VISION (Muramatsu Gallery and Tokyo Gallery)
1968 MOVEMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ART (Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art)
1973 Bienal Internacional de Artes de Sao Paulo
1975 Biennale de Paris
1989 DRAWINGS NOW (The National Museum of Art Osaka)
1999-　Global Conceptualism (NY Queens Museum of Art and other museums)
2008-11 TRICK ART'S WORLD (Takamatsu Museum of Art and other museums)
2010-11 THIS IS NOT A BOOK (Urawa Museum and other museums)

Silencer | Etsutomu KASHIHARA
It is one of my strict rules that whoever would do even if I didn't do.
Because it is not my attraction but painting's.
I tried to carry on technique and composition strictly as possible with compressor or other tools.
This is not for strict viewing but for liveral one.
I believe that the more strict the object is, the more comfortable the viewer can be.
If the artist':s sense emerges on his of her painting vividly, it can stimulate viewer's dynamic imagination
but the distance and extensity of imagination would become poor.
If painting is very strict as viewer can not see the artist's sense, viewer's imagination can spread as far as it can be freely with the sense of time and distance.

Ame-Tsuchi | Minoru MORIKAWA
I do not have confidence to describe if this is 'work'.
It seems to be too empty to do it.
I have been enthusiastic about vanish something through making something.
I remember this sense began since I made 'ERASING' that is my first 'work' in my universty.
I painted 10m roll paper with 100 pencils and erased it with 100 erasers afterwards.
The left things finally were the chips of 100 pencils, the dust of 100 erasers and the creased paper.
It was not a simple subtraction and just 0 either.
I am seduced the richness that spreads between 0 and 1 infinitely.

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