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Report "Masafumi Akikawa Special Talk"
"The pleasure of the collection, the pleasure of making."
Tokyo Art Antique 2024 - Nihonbashi Kyobashi Art Festival -
The spring fun event "Tokyo Art Antique 2024-Nihonbashi / Kyobashi Art Festival-" was held for three days from April 25 (Thu) to April 27 (Sat), 2024.
This year's featured event was "Masafumi Akikawa's Special Talk: Enjoyment of Collection and Enjoyment of Making" held on April 26, and the interviewer was performed by Kimiyuki Kawashima, Representative Director of Ryusendo Cocoonyama on behalf of Tokyo Art Antique participating stores.
I would like to report from Tokyo Dumbo.
Masafumi Akikawa is a tenor singer who is familiar to us in the song "Become a Thousand Winds", but in recent years he has demonstrated his talent as a sculptor and has been in the sculpture section of the Nika Exhibition for three consecutive years. I have been selected.
This work is "Wooden sculpture Nanko statue (Masshige Kusunoki statue)" which was selected at the Nika Exhibition in 2021.
Akikawa was born in Saijo City, Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku, and since childhood he has been familiar with the magnificent Danjiri float, which has been carved in wood at local festivals. He started wood carving at the age of 43, and was instructed by a Buddha statue sculptor to start firmly if he worked on it.
It is said that this work was carved with a technique of digging out the work from one piece of wood and completed it over three years, but because I was doing it as a hobby, I was able to spend as much time as I wanted .
The face was carved to the back of the neck under the helmet. He seems to have worked with a specially made chisel, and it seems fun to devise various things.
The armor string on the back was also carved in very detail, and I felt the dynamism as if the string was moving.
This work is a selected work for the Nika Exhibition in 2023, and is a colored wood sculpture work entitled "Wood Sculpture Frogs and Snakes".
The space just before the frogs and snakes witness on the ring is dug up, giving you a sense of tension.
Mr. Akikawa also talked about his own wood carving collection. It was impressive that it was said that both the production of wood carving and the activities as a collector could grow myself.
During the Tokyo Art Antique period, I visited not only the special talks reported this time but also many participating stores.
The participating stores of Tokyo Art Antique spread to the detailed maps of Map A, Map B, and Map C in the above ART MAP, and it was a good opportunity to experience art with my wife.
In addition, we were able to relax and enjoy the Nihonbashi and Kyobashi districts by eating in the venue and taking a break at a coffee shop.
I would like to thank the Tokyo Art Antique Executive Committee and the people involved for providing this opportunity. I look forward to seeing you in the future!