TRAPPN#124: Mark Leckey’s “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore”

“While obviously celebratory, Fiorucci is ultimately concerned with a collective loss of innocence; its subtext, an examination of the ritualistic behavior of heterosexuals on the threshold of adulthood. Leckey’s young–ostensibly male–protagonists exist in the tungsten glare of the moment, blissfully unaware of (their) culture’s inevitable passing…” 

TRAPPN#96: Matsugami Takeshi

spray paint, gesso, friction tape on paper, 109 x 76 cm, 2010

friction tape on paper, 1091mm x 788 mm, 2010

magic marker, friction tape, pencil on paper, 1091mm x 788mm, 2010

magic marker, friction tape, pencil on paper, 1091mm x 788mm, 2010

house paint on paper, 1091mm x 788mm, 2010

paper collage, 728mm x 515mm, 2009

mixed media, 110cm x 80cm, 2009

mixed media, 110cm x 80cm, 2009

mixed media, 110cm x 80cm, 2009

mixed media, 110cm x 80cm, 2009

mixed media, 110cm x 80cm, 2009

A selection of drawings and collage by Matsugami Takeshi

Killer artist’s statement:

I explore what means the beauty　through my artworks.
The reason why I feel the sunset to be beautiful may be that the sunset is not forever.
Human beings have lost many things during living.
The body has become not freely, and the mind, the language and the memory that they love someone have lost.
The beauty may include the attitude that people would like to live better whatever they know that they will lose many things in the future.
I would like to show it through the artworks.

(Source: The Trilogy Tapes)