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ART&CULTURE / 2023.03.06

GOMA EXHIBITION "Hikari no Map" GOMA Interview (3/3)

GOMA EXHIBITION "Map of Hikari" GOMA Interview

GOMA is a player and painter of brass instruments dejuridus by native Australians. Currently, his solo exhibition "Hikari's Map" is being held. The dotted drawings that suddenly returned from the traffic accident in 2009 and suddenly began to draw, like a dynamic fluctuation of overlapping waves, a graphical mathematical arrangement, and a Mandala. These dense and powerful dazzling worlds are all the scenery of the "world of the world" that appears in your brain as consciousness recovers. Let's ask Mr. GOMA about his enthusiasm for the solo exhibition and drawing.

  • Interview & Text
    Yusuke Nakamura
  • Photo
    Yuji Iwai

ーI think that one of the attractions of the "Hikari Map" exhibition is that it is possible to expand various images from the interpretation of the viewer. What do you think of the significance of this solo exhibition?

 

GOMA: I started painting after my consciousness returned (after the accident in 2009), so I have such a life. What I learned with myself is that I don't know when and what will happen. But even in such a case, I want you to know that you can play and live a new life. There is such a world of "Hikari" That's why I don't think anyone can see it. It may be useful if you can't come back or come back from that world.

 

It was a map before it was a work. What do you look back on the accident now?

 

GOMA: In the past, why were you (why did you have an accident)? What would have happened if I hadn't been on the highway at that time? I thought about it. I was wondering if I could go back in the past. For there was something like an insect known (just before the accident).

 

What kind of insects do you know?

 

GOMA: On the day of the accident, when I was in a car with my daughter, I got a fuss and returned home. So he dropped his daughter and went out by car alone, and had an accident. It was unfortunate that I didn't get involved in my daughter, but I couldn't get the intuition of the intimidation of swaggling feelings. If you believe that intuition…I still think about it. But recently, because I started painting, I came to think that I have been able to create a movie of the main character ("Flashback Memorys 3D") and have more new encounters than before.

 

Finally, what do you think that the future of painting was waiting?

 

GOMA: For the first time in an American research institute in 2018, why do you draw a picture? What's going on in your brain? It was cleared and my feelings were refreshed. After that, I was able to draw a picture. I couldn't imagine the future of drawing at the age of 50, but I can't say that I'm on a trip to Osaka for an exhibition like this now is my fate. I always liked traveling. But I never thought I would travel to that world (laughs).

■Details of the exhibition

"GOMA EXHIBITION" Hikari no Map ""

After a higher brain dysfunction and loss of memory due to a traffic accident in 2009, GOMA began drawing detailed dotted drawings two days after the accident. GOMA, one of the world's leading Di Juri Do players and had little connection with painting before the accident, depicts "the scenery seen after losing consciousness."


Even after more than 10 years after the accident, GOMA found that there are certain rules in the memory of the sight that can be seen before consciousness recovers. In this exhibition "Hikari's Map", the first attempt is to compose the scenery from the loss of consciousness to the recovery of GOMA in stages, and to have viewers relive as a "map" with certain rules. Challenge.

 

■Date: March 4 (Sat)-March 21 (Tuesday / holiday) 2023

■Opening: Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F PARCO GALLERY

■Admission fee: 500 yen (tax included) ※Free for elementary school students and younger

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GOMA

 

The player and painter of the traditional Australian Aboriginal musical instrument Di Juri-do. He won the runner-up at the Balungadijulido Competition held in Australia in 1998 and has been widely active in Japan and overseas. In 2009, a traffic accident occurred and activity was suspended due to symptoms of higher brain dysfunction. On the other hand, two days after the accident, he began drawing detailed dotted drawings, and now has held numerous solo exhibitions, including BACKWOODS GALLERY (2016) Shinjuku Takashimaya Art Gallery (2018/2019), Australia. In 2012, he appeared in the movie "Flashback Memories 3D" featuring himself and won the audience award at the Tokyo International Film Festival. At the opening ceremony of the 2021 Tokyo Paralympic Games, he was in charge of entrance songs for Hikaru Trucks. In 2022, he worked on art in the play with the music director of the 2022 stage "Smoothless Ungo". The Seika Mandala was stored in the ancient shrine Hitachi Country Shrine, which has a millennium history.
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