田中 真聡 Masato Tanaka ( kinetic artist / space designer )

Masato Tanaka was born in Yokohama,Japan. He obstained his master's degree in design from Tokyo University of Arts. Combining art with technological knowledge. Masato has focused on the creation of a series of "Kinetic Sculptures" that demonstrate that technology not only brings the acceleration of modern life but also contains sense of hidden natural beauty. Although electricity,motors magnets are inportant compornents in Masato's works,what creates the major kinetic energy for free movement is nature itself,such as the focus of wind or gravity. The beauty of the balancing motions of the works is simultaneously an expression of balancing the stresses of daily. Masato seeks to promote a concept he calls "playground of one's eyes",using inorganic materials and forms to search for peaceful expression on which the eyes can rest idly for a while,glancing out from the corners of daily life. He always aims at the activities of crossing the fixed form of each expression genre.
  E-mail: masato___@hotmail.com
  http://masatotanaka.web.fc2.com


There are scenes that we can leave our eyes in them without any purpose. There are sounds which we listen attentively to unconsciously. There must be it in them "something" that it is resonant with the heartstrings at that time.

Many kinds of matters & elements in the environment that we are surrounded keep changing in the various rhythm, with interacting each other. A certain thing radiates the pulse of faster rhythm than the human heartbeats. Some another things pulsate such slow vibrations that they can't be catched in human senses. It can be said that those each has their own time dimension, too.

In consciousness which one itself is considered as a fixed existence in the passive stance, the above differences in the rhythm and wavelengths seem to the person like mere gaps between oneself and them, and the one feels them as the noises and the stresses. The person will be able to get sympathy(resonance) while the wavelength overlaps (which include oneself) if the one recognizes oneself as one factor of the environment. Rather than the life with being pressed for time, I would like to live as if to swim in the flow of the time. Then, the waves will accompany many sympathetic points, and I'll look foward to their sublimating to the new waves(=dimention).

All things and phenomena on the earth are related with the air by the gravity. (Even any technologyical products are not exceptions, too) I make allowances (movements) for those relations just a little, and increase sympathetic points, and try to add some aesthetic flavor to the atmosphere.

As I wish to listen to the sound of the earth turning...

                                                   Masato Tanaka




左)風の栞  BOOKMARK OF THE WIND (1999)
中・右)忘れ物をとりに
 LOOKING FOR THE THING LEFT BEHIND (1999)
いずれも)その月に映る風
 WIND MIRRORED ON THE MOON (1999)
左・中)その月に映る風
  WIND MIRRORED ON THE MOON (1999)
右)風に誘われ 水に咲く(部分)
  WATER BLOSSOMS (1997)
左)風に誘われ 水に咲く(部分)
  WATER BLOSSOMS (1997)
中・右)風を数えて歩く
 WINDY METRONOME (1996)
左)その庭に座って月を待つ
 AWAITING THE MOON WITH SITTING ON THE GARDEN
 (1996)
中)撒きちらされた時間
 PIECES OF TIME (1996)
右)そして風に溶けてゆく
 AND IT MELTS INTO THE WIND (1995)
左・中)想い出すこともできないまま
 AS A SWIMMER IN THE MEMORY (1995)
右)追復曲 KANON (1992)
左)誘韻筆 SOUND PENCIL (1991)
中)TORICOPTOR (1993)
右)そんな気がして(部分) I FELT IT SO



[ Academic background ]
1985 Graduated from Design Course, Tokyo University of Arts.
(Received Ataka Award from Tokyo University of Arts.)
1987 Graduated from Master's Course, Tokyo University of Arts.


[ Solo Exhibition ]
1989 "Space Swimming" (Atelier Nouveau/Tokyo)
1990 「立動儀」"RITSUDOUGI" (Gallery SURGE/Tokyo)
1991 "Gravity Ensemble" (Gallerie SHIMON/Tokyo)
「時装儀」"JISOUGI" (Atelier Nouveau/Tokyo)
1993 "Swimming in the fourth dimension" (Tokyo Electric Co.La FONTE/Utsunomiya,Japan)
「彩辞儀」 "SAIJIGI" (Atelier Nouveau/Tokyo)
1995 "GRAVITARIUM" (Galerie SHIMON/Tokyo)
1999 "Kinetic Sculpture" (HK Univ.of Science and Technology/Hong Kong)
2000 "Garden of the Gravity" (HE XIANGNING ART GALLERY/Shenzhen China)
2001 "Parallel Time" (The Macau Museum of Art/Macau Fringe Fes.)
2003 "Drops of The Breeze"(Jendela in ESPLANEDE/Singapore)
2005 Artist in residence (Sculpture Square/Singapore)


[ Group Exhibition ]
1992 "21st Modern Japanese Arts Exhibition" (Tokyo Museum/Kyoto City Museum)
1994 "Kinetic Sculpture Exhibition" (Yamanashi Prefecture Modern Arts Museum)
"KIRIN Contemporary Award '94" (KIRIN BEER Yokohama/Osaka)
1999 "JTE Video Circle 1999" (HK Univ.of Science and Technology/Hong Kong)
2001 "City Inside A Broken Sky" (Fringe Club/Hong Kong)
2002 "Hearts of illumi" (Tokyo Design Center/Tokyo) 


[ Public Collection ]
1997 "WATER BLOSSOM" ('Land of Water'/Shimane prefecture,Japan)
2001 "Monologue of the Lotus""Dialogue with the Guia" (The Macau Museum of Art)


[ Art work for stage performance]
1999 "HIWA NO MURE" objects for TV drama set (Geijutsu Gekijyo, NHK)
"Debris of Heaven" live performance (Hara Museum /Tokyo)
「非夢奇縁」 live performance  (City Hall/Hong Kong)
2000 "City Inside a Broken Sky" live performance (Sha Tin Town Hall/Hong Kong)
"Love Sick" Dance performance (Terpsichore/Tokyo)
2001 "Tokyo Doll" Dance performance (Session House/Tokyo)
"Another A-ken's SOROYA" (Shanghai theater academy/China)
"Lost and Found" live performance (The Macau Museum of Art/Macau Fringe Fes.)
2002 "Lost and Found" live performance (The Macau Museum of Art/The 4th Chinese Drama Festival)
2003 "1000 songs of the Ages" object for TV music program (NHK-BS2)
"KAMI" live performance (Studio Theatre in ESPLANEDE/Singapore)
2005 Akikazu Nakamura (as Japanese bamboo flute player) solo recital (Casals Hall/Tokyo)


[ Stage art for Pappa TARAHUMARA ]  as a dance theatre company in Japan
* "Castle-MACBETH"(1995 Panasonic Globe/Tokyo)
* "Grass Labyrinth"
Japan-Hong Kong Dance Theatre Collaboration by Pappa TARAHUMARA(JP) and Zuni Icosahedron(HK)
(Japan Foundation Asia Center Performing Arts Program 1996/Tokyo)
* "SHIPIN A VIEW"
(1997 Ginza SAISON Theatre/Tokyo)(2002 Venezia Biennale)(2003 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space)
* "No Wing Bird on the Island" (1997 Yokohama Landmark Hall)
* "Spring day" (1998 Tsukuba/Hong Kong/Taipei) (1999 USA tour)(2000 Singapore/Malaysia/Tokyo)
* "WD" (2000 Theater TRAM/Tokyo) (2001 Taipei/Paris、Asia tour + Australia)
* "WD final ver." (2001 Setagaya Public Theater/Tokyo)
* "Birds on Board" (2002 Tsukuba-Seoul-Pusan-Tokyo/Japan-Korea exchange program)
* "The Sound of Future SYNC." (2002 New National Theater-The Pit/Tokyo)
* "A Blue Brain Bull" (2003 The Suzunari/Tokyo)
* "STREETof CROCODILE" (2003 Scai the Bathhouse /Tokyo) ---July now planning
* "SHIP IN A VIEW"(1997 Ginza SAISON Theatre/Tokyo)(2002 Venezia Biennale)
          (2003 Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space) (2004 Macau Art Museum)
USA tour, Mexico,Brasil...etc.
* "STREETof CROCODILE" (2003 Scai the Bathhouse /Tokyo)
* "STREETof CROCODILES" (2004 Spiral Hall /Tokyo)


[ Collaboration with Akira Horikoshi (drums/percussion) ]
2001 "SOLO-ist vol.1" (Nishiogi WENZ studio/Tokyo) guest Naruaki Kikuchi/sax
  "SOLO-ist vol.2" (Nishiogi WENZ studio/Tokyo) guest Asuka Kaneko/violin
2002 "SOLO-ist vol.3" (Nishiogi WENZ studio/Tokyo) guest Jun Fukamachi/keyboard
  "SOLO-ist vol.4" (Nishiogi WENZ studio/Tokyo) guest Hideki Ishima/sitar,original guitar
  "SOLO-ist vol.5" (UNESCO/Macau,Macau Fringe Fes.)
guest Makoto Matsushima : Dance Performer,
  Raul de Jesus Saldana : Tibetan Lute ( Saragi )
2003 "SOLO-ist vol.6" (Nishiogi WENZ studio/Tokyo)
2004 "SOLO-ist vol.7" (Theatre TRAM/Tokyo)


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