He talks about "I and my 100 Goffstein".
Above the front mouth
It is M of the tonkachi's assault squad.This is M.B. Goffstein's exhibition "I and my 100 Goffstein", which will be held at the gallery "No Kogiri", and chose Mika Sasaki (the Gofstein series of Tonkachi (Tonkachi's Gofstein series This is an interview with). As expected, it was a very easy -to -use development, so in some places I will deliver it with a full feeling of everyday clothes.
Felve history
Mr. Sasaki knew Goffstein 30 years ago (the details of this area are "" "" "Talk about Goldy.), Then, at the time of the power shovel, the predecessor company of Tonkachi, there was a project to have an artist who has little to do with photos take a picture, and Sasaki -san gave an offer to three people who love it. to start. One of them was Goffstein. As a result, I didn't do my job, but after about 10 years, I will contact you again to make a product or picture book. "I really liked the picture, so I said I wanted to make such a picture book to decorate your picture!" The story starts here.S (Sasaki -san): After becoming a tonkachi, I will offer it again. At that time, my situation changed, and I was a dreaming student before, so the picture is simply cute! That's all, but since I started working, the way I received it was different and I was encouraged by Goffstein's paintings. So, I thought this is already an adult in the same situation, or not a picture book corner book. At that time, I had already worked with Lisa Larson, and I thought I would definitely be able to understand Lisa. So I contacted me again. At that time, I said a lot about what I wanted to make from a picture book, I wanted to put out all the books that were out of print, and I wanted to put out the books I was out to be different. But he said, "Picture books are the past, and I don't want to touch them now." "Eh!" I'm still encouraged by the picture book! What? I understand well now, but at that time I was sad.
M: Sometimes my heart is heading in a different direction, sometimes when I'm working with the artist, but Gofstein at that time was stronger and negative to the past work, and I want to remember it. It felt like it wasn't.
This is me and my neighbor!
S: So Goffstein showed me the work I was working on at that time. It wasn't a picture book. But I'm really sorry at that time, but at that time I didn't want to do that work, but I really wanted to make her picture book! So, maybe, I said that it wasn't what I wanted to do. So I couldn't work at that time.M: The sad feeling that this romantic call did not come through is exactly the relationship between my neighbor, who appears in "I and my neighbor". It is said that this is looking in another direction. Especially the scene of snow shoveling.
M: My feelings are no longer there, I clearly say goodbye to my cute work. Goffstein is the same sincerity as those who appear in picture books in that respect. I don't know if Gofstein is the ideal person or the person himself, but ...
S: I think it's the person himself. Now, I think Goffstein has done what he can do in picture books. So I guess it wasn't a picture book anymore.
It always becomes a different book
M: Goffstein's book changes greatly depending on that person.S: It changes among the same person. At first, I was watching Brucky or cute, and I didn't think about the content deeply, even if I was "me and my neighbor", but I thought it would be cute, but on the way. As I went out and worked, I saw the goldie and said, "Ah, I understand," and I was pushed by a picture book. After that, for example, Brookie's sheep is simply cute! I thought, but that picture book itself is a book dedicated to my husband. After seeing it, I started to see Brookki and sheep in a relationship with someone. As I grew older, I started to read that way. I think that it is a book that changes depending on the age you read in your baby, in your teens, 20s and 30s. Even in the same picture book, the feeling changes depending on the age of reading.
M: That's right. The book called a masterpiece has such a side, but Goffstein's book is especially true. The reading will change even after a few months.
S: That's right. The readings change while I made Goffstein's books that I came up with.
Finally make a book
M: And then she dies. But there is a contact from there, and her husband contacts me and say, "I want to leave her work in the next era, so please do what you want to do." It was it.S: My husband happened to see the email I sent after Goffstein's death. So, I contacted me, "I was impressed." It was a time when my husband was hurt, and I wanted to keep her work forever. At that time, I saw the email and contacted me. 14 years have passed since the first offer.
M: At that time, there were a lot of books that were out of print in Japan, and various things overlapped, so I was able to publish Gofstein's books with tonkachi.
Pressed by a picture book
S: But here I fall into a picture book situation again. "Goffstein himself said he didn't want to do a picture book anymore, but is it okay (we put a picture book)?" That situation will be gone. However, Goldy's jumbled phrase, a fairy comes out in the last scene and says, "That's not true." It is not a mistake to go through what you wanted to do.M: When you start a picture book, you will be boosted by the picture book itself! ?
S: Yes. That's interesting. That's the amazing part of her book.
M: Always fantasy, always practical books, and always self -development books.
S: That's right. I looked at Goffstein books and thought and learned a lot, so I wanted more people to know it. So, I wanted to do Goffstein's picture book. Anyway, Goffstein's picture books always have the same theme at the root, but the focus is different. I'll dig into one theme. The biggest thing I learned from her (unable to learn) is that I change focus and repeatedly give up.
About Goffstein exhibition
M: It's finally about this "I and my 100 Goffstein". It was too long so far. This was a gallery called "No Kiri" (laughs), so I thought it would be an exhibition someday, but it was decided suddenly again.S: As a tonkachi, I've always dreamed of doing a full -fledged Goffstein retrospective exhibition, but that's why I can't help but just wait. There is a lot of space called "no saw", so first of all, we talked about trying to do what we can do alone. So I did what I could without thinking about it. Therefore, it was decided that it was possible to manage it if the picture was selected and printed instead of the original picture, and if the three -dimensional work was shown, it could be managed. And there are various books. I decided to choose 100 pictures, but I don't usually put out the name "Mika Sasaki", but Mr. O in the planning, "Goffstein and Sasaki are not shallow. There is a starting point, and the tonkachi and gofstein are connected. "
M: Surely, that's right (laughs). When your name appears on the flyer, your back will grow more. Is it pressure in a good way?
S: Yes. I have to choose it properly. After that, I chose it while considering that if you choose from the picture only.
M: This is the Gofstein selection that Mr. Sasaki saw with his current eyes. But if you didn't have this opportunity, you would never do it. Did you finish the choice?
S: It's not over yet. At first I chose it, but when I thought about it, I'm always worried.
M; it is more than a month from the time you choose it.
S: Why do you say that? I'm not like Gzuzu.
Four types of flyers
M: Well, the flyer was quick! (Suddenly bright!)S: That's right. Choosing multiple images and creating a whole image has been a lot of shovel era, so I'm originally good (proud). There are four types of flyers this time, but Mr. O has stated that the image used here is to remove too general in Gofstein. I'm going to do it like a piece that fell into the editing room of a film film.
M: You don't use a decisive scene. So who looks? That's it.
S: In the first place, you may think why there are four flyers, but I like tonkachi no matter what. The flyer of "no saw" has just changed. The Goffstein picture looks completely different when you look at making a flyer. After all it is amazing. The power of the picture. what! ? Is this Nandesca? I think. There is a super modern feeling, surreal and comical. On the back, I put a little major sheep or something that I thought was cute, and I just liked this (grandmother) because I personally like it.
My 100 Goffstein
M: What did you think about 100 for the exhibition?In addition to the number of S: 100 sheets, there is also a limit on the size because we have to use the amount we have for economic reasons. That's difficult. So I'm on the right and left. But it's more free to have a limit.
M: What is the difference between 100 sheets you choose and 100?
S: After all, what? Katachi? Is it a shape or an atmosphere? Omoro! Is it a place like that? I choose a famous scene, a picture that is wonderful, and the most important scene in the book. I'm that kind of person.
M: "Interesting" that gets caught in my heart? Is it so -called cute?
S: I don't want to say "cute" now. In the past, I could say anything with the word "cute", but now it's an era when it doesn't come, but there's no way to change it. Speaking of which, I thought the banana skin on the road was interesting, so I passed it once, but I came back and took a picture. Similar to that moment. That kind of choice.
M: Ton Casta! That's exactly how to choose a ton casta.
(Note) Ton Casta is a hidden Instagram that tonkachi is doing. There is not much business in the photo posting SNS that is close to the staff who leaves a little of the power shovel era.Click here for Ton Casta
What the picture tells
M: Mr. Sasaki said that Goffstein's picture was printed but the goodness would not be lost, but why do you think that's why?
S: I went to a museum and looked at the real paintings and thought, "Wow, it's a different picture of the book." But Goffstein doesn't look like that. If you think about what is the reason, you'll feel emotions and a sense of air. I'm close to myself and link to myself. Well, don't you know? difficult! Why should I say it? Umm.
(Mr. O appears here. The following is par after Mr. O)
Goffstein will be a printed material (even if it becomes a coarse printed material), the format will change, but if you take a copy many times, what will be transmitted even if the quality of the picture deteriorates. do not have. That's because Goffstein is trying to convey it, not the details of the picture, but the details of emotions. So it will not be lost. I think that he thinks about drawing a picture. "Pictures depicted like poetry." A picture drawn like a word.
S: That's right. That's about it.
M: Did you have any derailment while choosing a picture?
S: It's full of derailment! I chose like one cut or one -cut, but if you look at the following pictures (such as the picture of Schubert), you can see how detailed it is. In order to convey this, I think that I have to leave it side by side, not just one cut. You derailed around. At first I chose it alone. For example, the viewer wants you to notice this place like "If Schubert starts writing songs and get on the chair, it will be in front of the chair." The scene that is prepared before drawing. The place where the ink is placed is all different! I wanted to show them together because I couldn't understand a few cuts.
M: Goffstein's picture is very photo -like, montage. Everything in the picture book is like a movie of a movie.
S: It's really amazing to put this information in this simple several pages!
M: Choose 100 pieces, did you notice any new awareness?
S: Oh, it's amazing! I will do it. The time to look at the picture is happy.
Old book and new solids
M: Please tell us about the used books to be sold at the exhibition.
S: Mainly original foreign books. Some are really tattered. Also, the cute point is that there is a book with a book card as it is. "Who's" is written, and children have graffiti.
M: Material books have a history of traveling. There are records that have been stacked. The traces remain as library cards and children's graffiti. This is very suitable for Goffstein's book.
S: I'm suddenly summarized like an honor student (laughs). If it's an ordinary used book, it's no longer worth it, so stop it! But Goffstein's book is also acceptable. In fact, the taste of a living book that has traveled comes out. It's like a travel bag or a passport full of stamps with a lot of stickers. I want you to see it.
M: Goffstein's first full -fledged figure will be released.
S: The figure started with a simple feeling of wanting to see a solid Goffstein. I asked a modeling company that made my "conductor" for the first time in 10 years. For the first time, I was a wobble, but it took a long time, but I was able to do it anyway. So I want you to see this too.
M: I wonder what it looks like to be a three -dimensional line with that Goffstein line.
S: That's right. That's the dilemma again, but I did what I wanted to do. I was most interested in what would happen and wanted to see it. This is a Pixar for us. While there is a joy that a movie has come that far, it is, of course, uncomfortable. But everything is beyond that. That's all, Gofstein's book is boosting.
M: I see. I feel good, so I will open it around here, but I still have no end. Also, everyone, please carry it to "Kogiri". You can see both the new book "Me and the neighbor" and the already published book. With this exhibition, Goffstein of Tonkachi seems to be moving in various ways. I think you can have a fun news again. Please look forward to it in the future!
S: Everyone, thank you in the future.
On the back of the mouth
"I and my 100 Gofstein"
M.B.Goffstein (M Bee Goffstein)
◯ Seminar:
Friday, July 21, 2023-August 20 (Sun)
* Water, Thursday and Friday are required to make advance reservations from the web.
* No reservations on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays are required.
◯Opening time: 12:00-19:00
◯Rested corridor: Monday / Tue
◯Venue: No saw
5-17 Sarugaku-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 Daiichi Nishio Building 2nd floor
TEL 03-6712-7878
nokogiri@tonkachi.co.jp
* The exhibition and sale work is not the original. It is output and framed with Sieg Laples.