「匿名」というキーワードの元、アートピースの制作のみならず、ファッションや音楽シーンにも幅広く作品を提供し、大きな注目を浴びている日本を代表する若手作家の一人、オートモアイによる１年ぶりとなる新作画集。 描き下ろし含む220点を収録した本書は、夢とも現実ともつかない曖昧な記憶と、その上に立つ蜃気楼のように不安定な現実世界を、油彩、ペインティング、連作のモノクロ・ドローイング等、多様な技法で切り取った、近年におけるキャリアの集大成ともいえる圧巻の一冊。表紙はUV、箔押し加工になります。 サイズ: A5(並製) ページ数: 256ページ 一般発売日： 2023年1月22日 ISBN 978-4-9911745-2-0 発行：焚書舎 オートモアイプロフィール 2015年からモノクロでの作品の制作を開始、2018年からはカラーも多用し、匿名性の高い“存在”が画面に佇んでいるような 作風で知られる。極めて客観的でもありながら、とてもパーソナルな情景にも見えてくるその作風は、人間同士の関係性や、作品と鑑賞者の関係性など、必要な情報が削ぎ落とされているからこそ見えてくる景色と情景を提示。 We are pleased to announce the publication of "Turquoise from Bolivia," a collection of new artworks by AUTOMOAI, published by Funshosha, the company I runs with my friends. AUTOMOAI is now one of the most active young artists in Japan. We are very honored to have been able to assist in the publication of art book. This book is a compilation of selected art pieces from recent years, with a seemingly blank cover, but upon closer inspection, the UV-processed patterns emerge, and the binding and specifications are sharp designed. Now available as a signed book. Please take a look at the trajectory of this solitary genius who continues to draw in full flood. Under the keyword "anonymous," this is the first new book of paintings in a year by AUTOMOAI, one of Japan's leading young artists who has been attracting a great deal of attention not only for AUTOMOAI art pieces but also for wide-ranging contributions to the fashion and music scenes. The book contains 220 works, including newly painted works, and is an impressive compilation of recent career. The cover is UV protected and foil-stamped. Size: A5 Number of pages: 256 General release date: January 22, 2023 isbn 978-4-9911745-2-0 Published by: FUNSHOSHA AUTOMOAI Biography AUTOMOAI started their artistic career in 2015, initially focusing on black-and-white drawings. In 2018, around the same time as the publication of the 300-page art book Endless Beginning (Funshosha), AUTO MOAI began to shift their focus to working with acrylic on canvas. At the book launch and art exhibition, they presented their new works together with the original drawings from the book, marking AUTO MOAI’s transformation from an illustrator to a painter. From 2019 onwards, in addition to their simpler works, AUTO MOAI started to explore three-dimensional media and paintings; they were unveiled at the exhibition Permanent Boredom (2019, TAV Gallery, Tokyo) where the artist, with eloquence and calmness, voiced their opinion on events that were vaguely prevalent in the region and generation in which the artist took part in. AUTO MOAI has shown oil paintings in Buoy (2020, Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo) and How to Express Love in a World Gone Wrong (2021, Isetan the Space, Tokyo). Utilizing photographs of everyday life that exist as data on smartphones as a motif, AUTO MOAI confronted the ambiguity and uncertainty of seeing photographs, looking back on memories, and daily communications that take place with certitude — which laid down the tracks for the current exhibition.
Figures without eyes and noses consistently appear in AUTO MOAI’s works. They at times function as a trigger for the viewer to "decipher" or "contemplate" about the events depicted. In addition to oil paintings, acrylic paintings, and drawings, this exhibition Big Ass Beyond Mountains will also feature three-dimensional works by the artist. Seven years since they began making art and less than a year since the reveal of their first oil painting, AUTO MOAI is now showing their third oil painting with incredible energy and speed. Unlike before, this series of works seems to be bearing somewhat distant and ambiguous landscapes. Described as depicting "fragments of landscapes scooped up from memory", there are motifs that suggest a definite meaning or symbolisms of some kind within the picture plane.   Although this is the same technique that was used in the book Endless Beginning, the focal point has shifted from portraying metaphors for things that are very individual and localized to things that are found in different regions and times.   In the past, many of AUTO MOAI's works appeared to depict different time frames within a single image. Their current works seem to portray various parallaxes found in the awareness of reality, in remembering, and in cognitive disparities between dreams and memories. Perhaps it is a testament to AUTO MOAI’s perspective on modern and progress forms of love and society. We hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy the works of AUTO MOAI who never ceases to evolve as an artist. ▼お取扱店舗 紀伊國屋書店　札幌本店（北海道・札幌） 函館 蔦屋書店（北海道・函館） カネイリミュージアムショップ（宮城・仙台） うさぎや栃木城内店（栃木・栃木） People Book Store（茨城・つくば） Antenna Books & Cafe ココシバ（埼玉・川口） 今野書店（東京・西荻窪） 本屋B&B（東京・下北沢） あゆみBOOKS杉並店（東京・新高円寺） 青山ブックセンター本店（東京・青山） アンジェラヴィサント KANDA SQUARE店（東京・神田） ブックスルーエ（東京・吉祥寺） くまざわ書店武蔵小金井北口店（東京・武蔵小金井） ブックファースト新宿店（東京・新宿） 紀伊國屋書店　新宿本店（東京・新宿） 代官山蔦屋書店（東京・代官山） 銀座 蔦屋書店（東京・銀座） 丸善　丸の内本店　（東京・丸の内） 蟹ブックス（東京・高円寺） 蔦屋書店 湘南T-SITE（神奈川・湘南） ひばりブックス（静岡・静岡） 丸善　岐阜店（岐阜・岐阜） ON READING（愛知・名古屋） ふたば書房　御池ゼスト店（京都・中京） 大垣書店イオンモールKYOTO店（京都・南区） 恵文社一乗寺店（京都・左京） 紀伊國屋書店　梅田本店（大阪・梅田） 梅田 蔦屋書店（大阪・梅田） 本屋ルヌガンガ（香川・高松） 丸善　博多店（福岡・博多） mychairbooks（熊本・熊本） ジュンク堂書店 （札幌店　弘前中三店　郡山店　立川高島屋店　池袋本店　藤沢店　名古屋店　名古屋栄店　大阪本店　梅田店　難波店　近鉄あべのハルカス店　三宮店　三宮駅前店　西宮店　滋賀草津店　那覇店）