Takashi HARA: Today is the day

2022年9月8日 - 10月1日

A2Z Art Gallery is proud and happy to present "today is the day",  the new creative opus by Takashi Hara, a visual artist living and working in Tokyo, who has just completed an artist residency in Okinawa, Japan. 

 

By combining the visual arts (sculpture and painting) with music, sound, song and poetry, Takashi Hara stages the multiple identities of living beings inhabited by complex feelings and memories and pays special tribute to the departure of his once musician grandfather. 

 

Takashi Hara immerses us in a play of writing and vivid colors projected onto the canvas with energy and expressiveness. The work has a ternary rhythm: the melancholy of the past, the torments and joys of the present and the hope of a future to be designed together. 

 

His animal avatar, the pig, is for him the universal spiritual allegory of the animal-man. As the philosopher Denis Viennet points out, "becoming an animal is not about imitating or doing the animal. Becoming an animal would rather be a work on oneself requiring an asceticism". It is this inner path, visual and acoustic, redemptive and outlet, that the artist wishes to take us on. Pigs the way with repentance and love, peace and benevolence, respect and listening.

 

Can you hear it? The pigs whisper a poem to us. Let us listen to them: 

 

 

Today is the day

I noticed that I have cried enough

 

Today is the day

We will smile out of the shadows soon 

 

Today is the day

A rocket full of hope lands on the moon

 

Today is the day

Missiles attack without emotion, life’s tough 

 

Today is the day

My friend's neck was twisted by an irrepressible ego

 

Today is the day

Do not cover your face, let your smile show 

 

Today is the day

I realize the world is full of lies

 

Today is the day

My child’s hope dies

 

Today is the day

My Grandpa passed away

 

Today is the day

Le temps des cerises is here to stay

 

Today is the day

Differences become positive supplies

 

Today is the day

The sunrise opens my eyes

 

Today is the day

I’m finally taking a step forward.

 

— “It is, it was, it will be”, June 2022

a poem by Takashi Hara