Jiro Takamatsu produced works, from the end of the ’60s to the first part of ’70s, where he questioned the relationship and absence between an object and its meaning. There is a series of his works at the beginning of ’70s in which Takamatsu used letters and numbers to exclude image and materiality from medium and meant to have a presence of absent nature (equal to reality) on the paper. Examples from this series, “Japanese Letters (These Seven Letters) ” and “English Words (These Three Words) “, as well as his mainly conceptual works will be presented in the exhibition.

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Among letters, “letter” is the only “letter” that does not fall into self-contradiction.
( Excerpt from “The Expanding World Prjoect”, P.95)

Among words, “word” is the only word that does not fall into self -contradiction.
(Excerpt from “The Expanding World Project”, P.144)

Jiro Takamatsu

■ Gallery Talks - Closing Event
This event will be held on the final day of the exhibition with the four authors of the Jiro Takamatsu's research
book "Jiro Takamatsu Critical Archive".
July 28 (Sat) 18:00 - 19:30 By Ryo Sawayama, Yoshiro Noda, Tomohiro Masuda, and Keisuke Mori
Moderator: Yumiko Chiba, Representative of YCA
*Entrance, free of charge