June 9, 2007
Art Dept: Nagoya University
Hiroshi took me to his school where he teaches a painting studio. Earlier, he described the insider/outsider art universes in Japan, and the faculty/student population reflects this reality as well. Undergraduate studios, this is the first time the students are working on independent projects, each one flourescing into one of the two artworlds. Hiroshi becomes here a fisher of men (women, since the majority of the students there are female), waiting for the moment when each student opens up to what art can be, as we understand it in the international arena.
What follows is a 148 images, a walk through of several floors of art studios in the outskirts of Nagoya:
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