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Tayutaumono -That Which Floats In The Air 2006 16.5' x 11.8" Dyes on cotton |
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Detail, Tayutaumono -That Which Floats In The Air |
"With general calligraphy, although a work is written on the topic of a character or language, ‘SHOGEI’ does not stop there. There is a character work, and there is an abstract work, which is separated from a character... If it says more, it has a possibility of also producing the work of art which is separated also from the act of ‘writing’ and which used essence of writing art as the base.
The essence of ‘SHOGEI’ is in the power of the line of a brush.
The form produced by the line of writing differs in a dimension with meant modeling. Into the improvisatorial play of the line of writing, there is a soul of the writer beyond modeling and appearance is projected as it is. There is it in a child's writing. The source of the infinite power connected with the truth of the universe is in the great free play heart.
People are born to each with a precious article. It is the precious article ‘the soul of base’.
‘SHOGEI’ is art with the power which can express it direct most simply rare in the world. When that work of writing is attended with the soul of base, a writer's soul is in sympathy with space nature, and united. It is connected with the universal truth of the universe through ‘SHOGEI’,
I want to connect the soul of people in the world.
It is my dream.”
Sogen Hirano was born in Tokamachi-shi, Niigata in 1961. At the age of 31, Hirano became a Shogei artist. He is a calligrapher, graphic and fashion designer, and an installation and collaboration performance artist. He has appeared on CNN, Korean National TV MBC show, and other broadcast events in Japan. Mr. Hirano also designed official calligraphy emblem work for the 2002 FIFA World Cup poster, and for numerous major corporations, including Suntory, Toyota, and Mitsui Real Estate. Mr. Hirano has exhibited his calligraphy art works and commercial design works internationally since 1991. Extending the conventional boundaries of the medium, he has recently collaborated with musicians and dancers in the performances of calligraphy art. His works are permanently on display in hotel lobbies, theaters, corporate spaces in Japan.
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