Seiichi Kobayashi creates his works through a meticulous process of layering patterns and images generated through programming using silkscreen printing. The surface, wherein paint has settled through the silkscreen, is left with traces of human handiwork. If one concentrates only on the image of the work, it can be seen as an image composed of the simplest elements, or a background image, but looking at it closely, one would find the artist’s emphasis on the gaps and imperfections in the manual work that occurred during its production. His artistic process, which begins with programming and continues through manual labor, is the very trace of the physical labor that confronts his work.
小林誠一はプログラミングで生成した模様をシルクスクリーンで平面に刷るという方法で作品を制作している。シルクスクリーンを通して絵の具が定着した画面は人間の手作業の跡を残す。作品のイメージだけに集中しようとすれば、最も単純な要素で構成されたイメージ、もしくは背景のようなイメージだが、主たるテーマは製作の過程で生じたずれや手作業の不完全な部分である。プログラミングからはじまり手作業を経る制作工程は、彼の作品に対峙する肉体労働の痕跡そのものなのである。
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Seiichi Kobayashi 小林誠一
b1994
Based in Yokohama
Education 学歴:
2019 Bachelor of Contemporary Art, University of South Australia
Exhibition History 展覧会:
2022 Group Show 'Abstraction Now' West Gallery Theberton
2022 Group Show 'Introduction 2020' Koganecho Yokohama
2021 Solo Show, 'Space and Improvisation' FeltSpace Adelaide
2021 Group Show, East Wind, Nexus Arts, Adelaide
2020 Group Show, Helpmann Academy exhibition 2020
2019 Solo Show, Functional, Carclew North Adelaide
Awards, Prizes and Residencies 賞、レジデンス:
2020 Helpmann Academy, City of Adelaide prize
2019 Port Art Supplies Painting Prize
2018 Derivan Mattise Painting Prize