PROFILE
Kazutaka Shioi｜塩井一孝
造形作家。1987年 宮崎県生まれ、福岡県宗像市を拠点に活動。大学在学中に鉄の彫刻家としてキャリアをスタートし、石や木、和紙など自然物に近い素材を用いた立体作品を中心に展開。全体の作品テーマは、自然の不可視な部分や触れることのできない要素を具現化すること。近年は、「光はあらゆる物質の原初的な構成要素である」という仮説を立て、『光＝写真』を素材としたプロジェクトを進行中。カメラで撮影した日本各地の光を和紙に印刷し、石や金属、ガラスなど様々な素材に貼り込む手法を用いて、立体作品を中心にインスタレーションやプロダクトを制作。これまで福岡で個展を開催、海外ではドイツ、中国、韓国、台湾の展覧会に参加している。
Kazutaka Shioi is a visual artist. He was born in Miyazaki in 1987 and currently lives in Fukuoka, Japan. Shioi started his career as an iron sculptor at the university and has developed his sculpture style using natural materials like stones, trees, and washi Japanese papers. His work is an attempt to give a form to an essentially invisible elements in nature. In recent years, he has developed a series of product using photography as a light-capturing tool based on the idea that light is the most fundamental element of all natural objects. He has done installations and designed products by applying washi paper with the printed image of light from various places in Japan on stones, metals, and glasses.
He has held solo exhibitions in Fukuoka, Japan and has participated in several international exhibitions in Germany, China, South Korea, and Taiwan.
