個展をします。案内文を、村田眞宏豊田市美術館長に書いていただきました。みなさま、よろしくおねがいいたします。

I will have a solo exhibition. Mr. Masahiro Murata, Director of Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, wrote a guidance statement. Thank you all.

1960 Born in Gifu City

1982 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting

Private exhibition

1988 The 1st Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Concept, Gifu]

1994 The 3rd Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Croquis, Gifu]

2000 The 4th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Kouhoudo, Gallery Naufu, Gifu]

2005-2014 The 6th-21st Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo

Kyobashi]

2005 7th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [KitaBiwako Hotel Grazie, Nagahama, Shiga

Prefecture]

2009 The 11th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Pazworld, Gifu]

2009 The 12th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [INATEC Gallery, Hazu-gun, Aichi Prefecture]

2011 The 16th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Kyokusyou-Museo, Ikeda Gifu]

2013 2016 The18th, 22th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Asahi, Owariasahishi, Aichi

Prefecture]

2014 The 20th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gallery Imagine, Gifu]

2016 The 23rd Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Gifu City Museum of History,Kato Eizo･Toichi

Memorial Art Museum]

2018 The 24th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [Kyokushou-Museo, Gifu Ikeda]

2018 The 25th Nakakaze Akiyo Exhibition [GALERIE hu: Higashi-ku, Nagoya City]

Overseas invitation solo exhibition

2018 Busan International Art Fair, The 26th Akiyo Nakakaze Exhibition

Group exhibition

1996-Present Modern Art Exhibition [Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]

1997 Modern Art Exhibition / Newcomer Award [Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]

Outlook for Modern Art Future / Excellence Artist Award [Yokohama Civic Art

Gallery]

2001 Modern Art Exhibition / Incentive Award[Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]

2002 Modern Art Exhibition / Kaiyu Masterpiece Award[Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]

2002 The 36th Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Contemporary Art Selection

Exhibition[Kushiro-Art-Museum, Hokkaido]

2003 Modern Art Exhibition / Kaiyu Masterpiece Award,Become an association member,

hereafter, continuing to exhibit each year. [Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum]

2010 Vespa Primavera and the Artists [Kyokusyou – Museo,Gifu Ikeda]

2012 Elephant Cage Exhibition [Kyokusyou-Museo, Gifu Ikeda]

2015 Morio Shinoda  Akiyo Nakakaze Exhibition [Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo Kyobashi]

2016 As a link of the universe [Kyousyou-Museo, Gifu Ikeda]

2018 2nd Morio Shinoda  Akiyo Nakakaze Exhibition [Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo

Kyobashi]

アンパンマン

自己犠牲のアイコン

バイキンマン

ピカレスク代表。結構好き。

ドキンチャン

わがまま代表。かわいい。

美とは？-3

美という文字は、3000年前、中国で生まれた。5万年前ほどに、丸太船に乗って、アラビア半島沿いに脱アフリカをした我々の祖先は、あるものたちは真北を目指し、カスピ海方面に行き、コーカソイド、白人種となり、あるものたちはユーラシア大陸の東北を目指して、アルタイ山脈付近で厳しい自然環境に閉ざされて、モンゴロイド、黄色人種となった。アフリカにとどまったものたちは、黒人種として今にいたる。

さて、私はモンゴロイドである。どうやら、一番厳しい自然環境で長い間とどまることになった我々の祖先は、吹きすさぶ黄砂混じりの凍った風の中で、体温を奪われないように、頭部の表面積を少なくするように、頭骨は球に近くなり、コーカソイドや黒人種に比べ、絶壁、腫れぼったい顔になった。また、黄砂を背景に、保護色として、肌が黄色くなったのだという。

さて、なぜこんなことをくどくどと書いたのかというと、我々の祖先は、ずいぶんと厳しい自然環境に置かれた、ということである。原始宗教が誕生して、神という概念が生まれ、神の怒りが厳しい自然環境の原因を作り、しばしば家族の命を奪うと考えれば、神を祀る際に、神が災厄をもたらす前に、一族を代表した生贄を選び、その命を捧げる風習が生まれた。

というのも、長い間アルタイ山脈付近で過ごした後に、モンゴロイドのある一派が３万年前、氷河期でベーリング海峡は氷で覆われていたので、徒歩でアメリカ大陸にわたり、マゼラン海峡まで長い時間をかけて到達した。その道筋にあるアジアから、マヤ、インカ、ペルー、マチュピチュにわたる遺跡には、かならず生贄台が見受けられている。1995年に、５百年前、ペルー高地で生贄にされた子どものミイラが発見された。彼らの体内からは、コカの成分が発見されていて、生贄として捧げられる神聖な子どもたちは、麻薬による高揚感の中で死んでいった。こうして、モンゴロイドの風習として生贄文化が生まれたのだろうけれども、中国の黄河周辺に到達し、そこで落ち着いた祖先たちは、一万二千年前にドメスティケーションの発見、つまり、家畜化の成功によって、羊を養うことに成功し、羊は重要な経済動物となった。

素晴らしく科学の進化した現代でも、自然の猛威によって大勢の人々が亡くなるのだから、古代の人々は、いきなりにして、現代よりも何倍もの大勢の家族や部落の仲間たちの命を奪われてきた。神の怒りを抑えるために、部落を代表した生贄の死を以って供物として捧げられたのは人間であったが、家族やメンバーの中から代表を選ぶことは大変辛いことに違いない。ということで、人間の次に大切な、経済動物である羊を選ぶことにしたのである。

ところが、人間の代わりに生贄になるのだから、その羊は村一番の立派な羊でなくてはならない。

美という字は羊と大が組みあわさってできている。大きな羊である。象形文字として、大を後ろ足と見て、羊が後ろ足をひろげたところという解釈もある。

美は、生贄であり、それは自己犠牲の精神である。自己犠牲の犠に含まれる義という字は、羊と我の会意文字である。我という字は、大きな刃物を象形している。我という刃物を自分に投影する、というところがなかなか詩的で味わい深い。古代モンゴロイドは、獲物や家畜を屠畜し、肉を切り分ける者は、部落のメンバー全てに同量の肉を切り与えるという公平さを大切にしてきた。羊の肉を切る際に、義には、そうした責任を負うものとしての精神が含まれていて、犠は牛篇を部首にしているのだから、ますます自分を正し、仲間のために尽くす、という意味合いが強くなる。

こうしてみると、楔形文字から発生した表音文字のドライさに比べて、黄河文明で支配階級に極めて近い非常に知的なデザイナーによってデザインされた象形文字に、彼らの道徳観を見ることができて面白い。

我々日本人が漢字、そしてそれを簡略化したひらがなで読み書きを学ぶうちに、知らず知らずに古代中国人の気高い精神性に触れてきたことになる。

古代では、医療の発達した現代と違って多くの仲間が成人するまでに命を落とす。部落を構成するメンバーは一人ひとりが大切な役割を持って力を合わせなければその部落の発展がなかった。そのぶん、たくましく成人する能力もあり、また成人したメンバーは、部落の中での自分の立場を前向きにとらえて、美が自己犠牲である、という精神を疑うことなく受け入れたであろう。

現代ではどうか。大抵は、生まれた時から衣食住に恵まれて、何不自由なくオートマチックに学校に通い、成人するのだから、どうして自分が生まれてきたのか、自己役割の喪失感はとても大きい。誰かに頼まれたり、または自分でのぞんだ記憶のないままに気がついたらこの世界に生きている。

古代では、自己犠牲というふるまいが美しいとされてきたが、これではさまよう現代人にとって立つ瀬がないので、素のまま、生きているだけで美しい、とか、能力があって自分の役割を生き生きとこなすエリートに対して、ついつい持ってしまう妬みや憎しみのともなう暴力的破壊行動も、それが「業」なのだと認め、そのエネルギーを実社会に向けるよりは、表現芸術に向けて発散することも必要で、そうなると、ピカレスクロマンやバッドエンディングなものであっても、見逃すことのできない大きなエネルギーを照射する作品もまた、美という自己犠牲という範疇からは外れてしまうが、優れていると言える。

The Chinese character “美that means beauty” was born in China 3000 years ago.

About 50,000 years ago, on boarding a log- boat, some of our ancestors who came out of Africa along the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, went to the Caspian Sea towards the north, became the Caucasian race, and some went headed to the northeast of the Eurasian continent, and as they reached near the Altai Mountains, they were trapped in the harsh natural environment, became a mongoloid race. Those who stayed in Africa are now as Blacks race.

Well, I am a mongoloid. Apparently, our ancestors who have been trapping for a long time in the harshest natural environment that be blowed violently by the frozen wind which contained lots of yellow sand, have evolved skull as round sphere so as to reduce the surface area of the head so as not to be deprived of the body temperature. And they had been the back of the head becomes flat, and swollen face as compared to the Caucasians and Blacks.Also, with yellow sand as the background, the skin turned yellow as a protective color.Well, the reason why I wrote this kind of thing is that our ancestors were placed in a very harsh natural environment.

The primordial religion was born, the concept of God was born, they thought the anger of God made the cause of the harsh natural environment, and when they thought that God often had taken the life of the family. So at a festival for celebration of the God, before God devastated the community, Custom to choose a sacrifice person representing the family from within the family and dedicated that person’s life, was born.

After spending a long time near the Altai Mountains, a group of mongoloids 30,000 years ago, walked across the Bering Strait, which was ice-covered during the ice age, to the Americas. Then they took a long time to reach the Magellan Strait.In the antiquity ruins of Asia, Maya,Inca, Peru and Machu Picchu along the way, there is always a pedestal that takes the life of asacrifice.A mummy of children sacrificed five hundred years ago in the Peruvian Highlands was discovered in 1995.The components of coca were found in their bodies, and the sacred children dedicated by their community as sacrifices died while being elevated by drugs.On the other hand, our ancestors reached around the Yellow River in China, and they who settled there were able to success to breed sheep by the discovery of the domestication twelve thousand years ago, and sheep became important economic animal .Even in the wonderfully advanced science of modern times, because of the ravages of nature, so many people die, so the ancients have suddenly been deprived of many times the lives of many more families and community mates than us in the present age.So they decided to choose sheep, one of the most important economic animals in the community, besides humans.So they decided not to sacrifice human beings, but to choose sheep, the most important economic animal in the community.The sheep had to be the most commendable one in the community because it was substitutes for humanity and be sacrificed.

The Chinese character “美(bi) means beauty” is made by combining “羊(hitsuji) means sheep” and “大(dai) means big”.It is a big sheep.As hieroglyphic, there is also an interpretation that “羊means sheep” is seen spreading a back leg, seeing “大means big” as a back leg.

“美means beauty” is a sacrifice, it is a spirit of self-sacrifice.The letter of  “義” included in the letter of “犠of four letter idioms that are “自己犠牲is the “羊” and “我” connotation letters.

“義(gi) means righteousness”

“犠(gi) means sacrifice”

“自己犠牲(jikogisei) means self-sacrifice”

“羊(hitsuji) means sheep”

“我means I”

The letter “我means I” is in the shape of a large knife. It is quite poetic and interesting to make a large knife and me identical. When slaughtering prey and livestock, ancient mongoloids valued the fairness of cutting the same amount of meat to all members of the community.When cutting(我) the meat of sheep(羊), Because “義means righteousness” includes the spirit of taking on such responsibility, and the “犠(gi) means sacrifice” also includes the letter of “牛(ushi) means cow, there is a strong meaning that we will increasingly correct ourselves and serve for our community.In this way, compared with the fact that the phonetic letters generated from the cuneiform letters are looking like innocent dry, It is interesting to be able to look at their morality in the hieroglyphs designed by the very intelligent designers very close to the dominant class in the Yellow River civilization.

As we Japanese learn the Chinese character and read / write in simplified hiragana, we imperceptibly will have touched the noble spirituality of the ancient Chinese.

In ancient times, unlike the modern age of medical development, many companions die before reaching adulthood.The members of the community would not have been able to develop the community, if each one have not an important role and unite.That’s why, he had the ability to grow tremendously, and as an adult, he would have positively accepted his position in the community and would have accepted without doubt the spirit that beauty is self-sacrifice.

How about now? Usually, we are blessed with food, clothing, and dwelling since I was born, and we go to school automatically without any problems and become an adult, so we feel a sense of loss of my own role as to why we was born.If I notice, I live in this world, but I have never been asked by anyone to be born in this world, or I have no memory of looking at it myself.In ancient times, the behavior of self-sacrifice has been described as beautiful, in such a thing there is no standing cozy situation for modern people drifted in this world,admitting that bare and only alive we are beautiful,we accept that we have the violent destructive impulse accompanied by envy and hate against the elite who has the ability to lively carry out their role, as karma,and rather than bringing that negative energy to a real world, it is also necessary to spend towards expression art.In that case, even works with great negative energy that can not be overlooked, such as picaresque and bad ending works, although they are out of the category of self-sacrifice of “美means beauty”,are said to be wonderfully beautiful.