vol. 9 Yamada Ayaka｜山田彩加
2022, lithograph on paper, 70 × 52 cm (image), edition of 30, price: ¥117,700
Yamada Ayaka, who has been actively engaged in creative endeavors based on the clear concept of “connections of life,” often reveals in her masterpieces such as Prayer to All Creation: The Origin of Life an aspect of nature that could be described as a beautiful yet dynamic vital chaos, with even the shadow of death lurking here and there. This is a subtle yet powerful wriggling and trembling that, while appearing to be still, repeatedly transforms and fuses, and I have previously pointed out that it evokes the “living” nature of the Ionian natural philosopher Anaximander, the limitless and indefinite primordial substance apeiron.
2009, lithograph on paper, 73.5 × 93 cm (image), edition of 10, price: ¥151,800
2021, lithograph on paper, 21.5 × 16 cm (image), edition of 58, price: ¥28,600
2022, lithograph on paper, 38 × 28 cm (image), edition of 50, price: ¥49,500
Anaximander is considered to be one of the pre-Socratic thinkers, and Martin Heidegger is said to have advocated the restoration of the concept of “living” nature (physis) as “being = becoming” that they cultivated. On the other hand, philosophers from Plato to Hegel established the concept of nature as “being = produced” and are said to have reduced nature to inorganic matter – material (matter) to be used for creation.
2022, lithograph on paper, 13 × 24 cm (image), edition of 50, price: ¥31,900
2018, lithograph on paper, 49.2 × 67 cm (image), edition of 35, price: ¥99,000
2022, lithograph on paper, 38 × 28 cm (image), edition of 50, price: ¥49,500
過去の残影 II―Remnants of the Past II
2023, lithograph on paper, 42 × 34 cm (image), edition of 38, price: ¥59,400
Yamada Ayaka’s dance of delicate lines may revive memories of “living” nature that generates itself, that is, the true nature of life, in our eyes, which have been imprinted with such a “dead” view of nature.
2020, lithograph on paper, 52 × 70 cm (image), edition of 35, price: ¥99,000
2024, lithograph on paper, 70 × 90 cm (image), edition of AP, price: ¥151,800
少女が抱えた夢―A girl held many dreams in her arms.
2019, lithograph on paper, 30 × 20 cm (image), edition of 50, sold
2017, lithograph on paper, 13 × 9 cm (image), edition of 10, price: ¥19,800
Artist
Yamada Ayaka｜山田 彩加
1985 Born in Ehime Prefecture, Japan
2011-2012 Exchange student program of École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Paris, France.
2014 Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Fine Arts, Doctoral course (Art), Tokyo, Japan.
2015 “Minamishimabara City Seminarillo Contemporary Print Exhibition” Semi-Grand Prize (Chihiro Watanabe Award) (Nagasaki) Minamishimabara, “Ayaka Yamada Exhibition -Connecting Life-” Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art, Solo Exhibition (Ehime / Imabari), “Tokyo International Miniprint Triennale”: Grand Prix (Tokyo)
2017 “BLIND PEAK-Dream Fetal Movement” Shinobazu Gallery: Three-person Exhibition (Nihonbashi / Tokyo)
2019 “Alchemical Muse Exhibition” Shinobazu Gallery: Group Exhibition (Tokyo / Nihonbashi)
2026 “Palimpsest of Phantasm Exhibition” Shinobazu Gallery: Group Exhibition (Tokyo / Nihonbashi)
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Ehime Prefecture Museum of Fine Arts / Tamagawa Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum / Machida Municipal International Print Museum / National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, etc.
Art critic
Soma Toshiki｜相馬 俊樹
Born in 1965. Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy, Department of Aesthetics and Art History. Art critic.
Numerous books on the expression of eroticism and fantasy art.
