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Potential Source 1
The first decoloration
installation.
Decoloration:
10m x 10m x 4m(h)
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concrete basins, red cloth, bleaching water
Coloration: 10m long white cloth, blue paint
(Rochefort-sur-Mer, France)
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| 1990 |
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Potential Source 2
Decoloration installation:
8m x 6m x 3,2m(h)
Wall sculptures: 4,5m x 1,5m - red cloth, 5 drum cans, water
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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The decolorization installations
are made of bleaching water in which are soaked red cloths... The
artist plays with the opposite effect, with the negative action. Oil
painting coats white cloth, bleaching water erodes colors, strips it
from the cloth, and lets appear hidden colors. Decolorization is only
partial, it offers a subtle gradation of colors, without contrast. The
color of red cloth is the most explicit because it reveals a yellow
color contained in it: decolorizing means "uncovering the colors that
are hidden under the visible color". Finally, the aggressivness of the
bleaching water produces aureoles that integrate well in the gradation
of colors.
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| 1991 |
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Untitled
2,5m x 2,7m(h)
Decolored black cloth,
hoses
(Gallery Jacques Losserand, Annecy, Fr.)
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| 1992 |
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Decolored cloth installation
4,5m x 3,7m(h)
(Gallery Pascal Polar, Bruxelles)
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| 1992 |
outdoor decoloration
in progress
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The first outdoor decoloration
Element: 3m x 2,6m
red cloth, elliptical basins, water, bleaching water
(Gallery Pascal Polar, Bruxelles)
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result of the outdoor decoloration
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first decoloration to sunlight exposure shows a new shape appearing on
the cloth, as if the sun had drawn its flames on it. Since then, the
sun became the principal element of the decoloration work. |
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| 1993 |
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Decoloration Factory
10m x 7m x 3,7m(h)
3 coths decolored in Brussels,
wood structure, violet cloth, bleaching water
(Gallery Espace Archidé, Paris)
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Red Ellipse 1993
230x165cm
(private collection)
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Blue Ellipse 1992
230 x 165 cm
(private collection)
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| 1993 |
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Decoloration &
Destruction
11m x 3,8m(h)
(Gallery Imperts,
Wroclaw, Pologne) |
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| 1994 |
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Summer
Decoloration (left)
Winter Decoloration (right)
each element :
260cm x 300cm(h)
(Gallery Lunami, Tokyo) |
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At the beginning of Toric
Decoloration Torus |
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Bleaching water is a chemical that acts autonomously : "it prevents me
from intervening" says Hirakawa who attends the process, letting the
chemical act and the cloth react. For every decolorization it is
necessary to proceed in a different way, because the reaction is always
different : the cloth may be eroded or the decolorization may be
insufficient. The cloths soaked in bleaching water are contained within
basins which shapes evoke an ellipse or a torus, and this explains the
results of these productions.
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1995
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Toric Decoloration
1995
14 decolored red cloth elements, each
element : 260cm x 300cm
(Freiburg City Gallery, Germany)
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private
collection
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Cosmogony 1995
installation :
3m x 7m
(Gallery Tom, Tokyo)
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Series: Anti-painting
(Dé-peindre) 1996
154cm in diameter
decolored cloth on wood
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| 1998 |
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Anti-painting
(Dé-peindre) 1997
Installation: 7,5m x 2,75m(h)
4 elements of 275cm x 150cm, decolored cloth on wood
(Choisy-le-Roi City Hall) |
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Anti-painting
Dé-peindre / Tore & Torus 1995-97
3m x 8m(h)
decolored cloth
(Choisy-le-Roi City Hall, Fr.) |
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| 1999 |
Collection of Graduate School
of
Mathematical Sciences |
Five Red Spheres 1999
Element: 154cm in diameter,
Installation: 15m long
decolored red cloth on wood, vernish
(Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo) |
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