Satoshi Hashimoto NIGHT - TIME = DARKNESS HANS & FRITZ CONTEMPORARY is pleased to present the exhibi- tion NIGHT-TIME = DARKNESS by the artist SATOSHI HASHIMOTO. Hashimoto is currently one of Japan’s most ‘alarming’ artists, producing works of art in the form of performances, actions, and instructions aimed at inducing the viewers’ into questioning their role in experiencing art. In the experience of art appreciation, we have acquired the habit of playing the role of an art viewer, which is allocated as one part of the structure of artist-artwork-viewer. Generally, we cannot bring personal feelings and pri- vate affairs into an art gallery because we must try to interpret the artwork objectivity and correctly. Exploring what he calls fuka, a term pointing to a sense of suspense, risk and pressure, Hashimoto disrupts this structure. In an art exhibition, viewers are not only infmuenced by the artwork and ven - ue but are also signifjcantly infmuenced by the viewers themselves. The viewers are not transparent existences in the exhibition space. At times, they are even more real and active than the actual artworks and have the potential to cause something to happen inadvertently. One can go fur- ther and say that the venue exists to install viewers rather than artwork, and that the artworks act as assistants to produce the performance. Offering a way out of an “art of the everyday”, Hashimoto’s some- times—unreasonable instructions and micro-actions freely tran- scend any borders, posing a question to our principle of existence. 10 MAY 2018 - 7 JULY 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com | info@hans-fritz.com
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WORKS
HANGING THE HANDCUFFS ON THE STREET SHashimo/I 565 Chain and handcuffs Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
NUMBER OF DEATHS YESTERDAY / NUMBER OF VISITORS TODAY SHashimo/I 564 Vinyl text on glass 50 × 100 cm Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
VISITORS COLOR SHashimo/I 569 Visitors, staff, microphone, loudspeaker, instax camera and photographs Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
COFFEE CUP AND REFERENCE: BLACK COFFEE SHashimo/I 568 Coffee cup and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: Black Coffee on the Street, Barcelona 2018 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
YOU CAN BURN YOURSELF SHashimo/I 548 Lighter and instructions (visitor interaction) Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
OR STRIDE OVER OR DUCK UNDER SHashimo/I 563 Instructions on a squared timber (visitor interaction) Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
OR RIGHT OR LEFT SHashimo/I 562 Instructions on a squared timber (visitor interaction) Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
PEN AND REFERENCE: DRAW SHashimo/I 557 Pen and picture print on tracing paper Picture: Newgate exercise yard, Gustave Dore, 1872 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
CROSS REFERENCE: GRAVE SHashimo/I 556 Two scantlings and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: World War I, 1918 Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
YOU CAN HAMMER YOURSELF SHashimo/I 566 Hammer, instructions (visitor interaction) Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
BUCKET AND REFERENCE: ONE FOOT SHashimo/I 570 Bucket, water, photograph print on tracing paper Variable dimensions Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
BRICK AND REFERENCE: UNBALANCE / DIFFERENCE IN LEVEL SHashimo/I 553 Brick and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: Compound (Chair and Brick), Jiro Takamatsu,1972 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
CHAIR AND REFERENCE: BARRICADE SHashimo/I 552 Chair and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: May 1968, Events in France Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
SQUARED TIMBER AND REFERENCE: DESTROY THE WALL SHashimo/I 555 Squared Timber and Reference: Destroy the Wall Photograph: Freetown Christiana, Copenhagen, 1971 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
COVER YOUR MOUTH WITH TAPE SHashimo/I 549 Tape, instructions (visitor interaction) Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
ROPE AND REFERENCE: RESTRAIN SHashimo/I 550 Rope and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: Restraint With the Rope, Satoshi Hashimoto, 2016 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
SCANTLING AND REFERENCE: HIT PEOPLE SHashimo/I 551 Scantling and photograph print on tracing paper Photograph: Student activism, Haneda, Tokyo, 1967 Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
THROW A STONE SHashimo/I 561 Stones, timber, instructions (visitor interaction) Variable dimensions Edition of 2 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
WOODEN BOARD AND REFERENCE SHashimo/I 554 Wooden board and photograph print on tracing paper Edition of 3 + 1 AP 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
STONE AND REFERENCE: STONE THROWING SHashimo/I 558 Stone, photograph print on paper Photograph: Arab Spring, Tahrir Square, 2011 42.6 × 32.5 cm Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
SCULPTURE OF BRANCUSI AND KNIFE SHashimo/I 560 Black kitchen knife, Photograph 37.7 x 45.5 cm Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
SCULPTURE OF GIACOMETTI AND BLACK KNIFE SHashimo/I 559 Photograph print and Swiss kitchen knife 37.7 x 45.5 cm Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
WHITE NOTE: ALBERTO GIACOMETTI SHashimo/I 567 Sanded down100 Swiss francs banknote 6.6 × 15.6 cm Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
STONE AND REFERENCE: STONE THROWING SHashimo/I 571 Stone, photograph print on paper Variable dimensions Unique 2018 Private Collection LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
STONE AND REFERENCE: ENLARGED STONE SHashimo/I 572 Stone, photograph print on paper Variable dimensions Unique 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
BREAK THE PEDESTAL Performance Broken wooden pedestal, stone, hammer and photograph prints on tracing paper Variable dimensions 2018 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
OTHER WORK
PHOTOGRAPHER: BODY BUILDER Performance: Body builder, single-lens refmex camera, mirror, assistant, exhibition space, viewers photograph: C-print Art Fair Tokyo 2012 / 2014 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
UNTITLED (PERFECT LOVERS) Félix Gonzalez-Torres (1991) / UNTITLED (RIO/ TOKYO) 2016 Two circular clocks 2016 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
YOU CAN CUT YOURSELF Knife, instructions, visitors 2016 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
YOU CAN PAINT YOURSELF Spray paint and printed A4 2016 LONDON - COPENHAGEN - BARCELONA www.hans-fritz.com
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