Tsurutaro Kataoka Exhibition “SHIKISAIKA -Flowres of the four seasons-”

About the Work
Using the 4 seasons as a motif, we created a space using a production of images and music.
Within the autumn space we expressed an atmosphere where you can feel the presence of the autumn night. In order to do this, we used images of swaying pampas grass on sliding paper doors and created music that contained the sounds of wind and the voices of insects. The image of the swaying pampas grass was projected onto the sliding doors using the Panasonic single focus projector.
Within the spring space, 3 Panasonic Space Players operated together and projected a sprinkling of dots in the spaces between paintings. The fluff from the dandelions that fly out of the pictures flowed throughout the space, and you could feel a gentle story that connects between the pictures.
Within the summer space, we created images where you could feel a day in the summer, making use of motifs such as sunlight filtered through trees, goldfish, evening showers, an evening landscape, the light of fireflies, and fireworks. The space player shining on the lined up glass containers combined with the projector shining on the floor to produce the images.
The main works are the 4 seasons hanging scrolls that reach up to a height of 3 meters. An image was projected onto the scrolls themselves, and the pictures moved as if they had come to life. This was a piece that drew out the fascination of each of the 4 seasons to the greatest possible extent. In the first half of the image you observe each motif of spring, summer, fall, and winter as they pass by, and the latter half built up dynamically to the changing of these 4 seasons. Lastly in the space of the camellia flower, a symbol of winter, the piece that inspired Tsurutaro Kataoka to start painting (ANOHINOTSUBAKI-literally translated to Camellia of that Day) was recreated and expressed in a continuous drawing. The silhouette of the camellia that shouldn't be there sways calmly, and in that background the blot patterns (drawn continuously by Tsurutaro Kataoka) of fleeting beauty appear one after another.
About the exhibition
In September 2015, the Panasonic Shiodome Museum hosted the Panasonic space production exhibit of “SHIKISAIKA-Flowers of the four seasons,” managed by Wow Inc. Using the latest Panasonic image devices (such as 5 Projectors, 10 Space Players) the entire room became a production through images and music.
Credits
Director : Hiroshi Ouchi
Designer : Tsutomu Miyajima, Tatsuki Kondo
Music : Tomohiro Nagasaki
Producer : Shinichi Saeki
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