T. I. F. Stories
By Tatsumi Shinoda (Selection Director for Tokyo International Forum Artwork)
Artworks Gathered in gShip of Diversityh 12
Toeko Tatsuno
She still maintains traces of a dedicated girl who was completely obsessed with painting. She told me that whenever she passes by the building of the Tokyo International Forum, she looks in at her own paintings from the pavement outside.
A painter, pausing on the pavement outside, is looking at paintings on the wall at the side of the escalators from a triangle window while many people are walking past. She looks as if she wants to add something directly onto the painting, if possible.
She only paints abstract pictures, but the natural openness of her paintings, the simple form and lyricism is endorsed by her reliable techniques.
On the wall at an exhibition in a museum, I saw a Tatsuno painting in which red balls and yellow balls were alternately lined up and which looked like apples of Shinshu, her home town.
I felt as if the crammed balls transformed into light balloons which gathered together, filling the entire room. I wanted the painting for the Tokyo International Forum.
The balls are just painted on a flat canvas, but these balls are being filled with energy and stand out by making the upper space full of light balloons. She is highly expected to be in the group of foremost authorities of modern pictures.
During her early period, she painted pictures by drawing many vertical and horizontal lines like those on a go board. During that period, whenever she went to town, she used to stare at blurring lines on the go-board-like tiles as in her paintings.
I visited her atelier in Tokyo, looking for another painting by her. She painted a purple-colored picture. As a result, it became a picture of purple and red balls. But this one is clearer. The fullness is stronger.
When I take a close look at her painting, the balls painted based on the shadow method are light, having the feeling of floating. It looks as if painted balls are floating above the heads of people who are crossing on the escalator, but they are light. They do not become a burden to people on the escalator who are always thinking about heavy things.
When I visited her atelier, many picture canvases were lined up. I imagined this when I looked at them: in the atelier where past canvases are floating fully in the upper space, she must be devotedly painting her new pictures, sitting in front of a standing canvas.
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Location: Wall at the side of escalator on 1F, C Block |
gShip of Diversityh = Artwork Collection Concept of the Tokyo International Forum
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