The Over painting as a Quantum Transmutation with a Pentimento effect

「重ねあわせ」2026

2000年代に始まった「塗り重ね」の方法は<Painting on Painting >のシリーズを経て、自身の過去作や習作に上塗りをしてひとつの絵とする方法に発展し、さまざまな展開を見せる。

テーマの「見ること」は、その見る対象を80、90、2000年代の「風景(世界)」から2010年代の「歴史(死者)」へと変遷し、最終的に現在の「重ねの生成プロセス(現在進行形のたたかい)」に行きついたと言える。

「目」は風景(世界)を見るための装置であった。そのうちに「目」は自分自身へと向かい、記憶、過去の痛み、断絶をどのように現在につなげていくかを模索しはじめる。2020年代*の作品はそうした客観の時代と主観の時代を経た統合の時代にあり、かつての装置—目と記憶の層を衝突させ、過去を上描きしつづける。そこでは、時間は回収されるのではなく、増幅する。  

*2020年代:約4~5年の絵画の中断があり、それはCovid-19のパンデミックの期間にほぼ重なる。ただしドローイングプリント作品としての『C通信』ができたのもこの期間である。

Superposition – 2026

The method of layering and overpainting that began in the 2000s developed through the Painting on Painting series, ultimately evolving into a diverse methodology where Nagasawa overpaints his own past works and studies to constitute a single, unified painting. The core theme of “seeing” has shifted its object of inquiry over time: from the “Landscape (the World)” of the ’80s, ’90s, and 2000s, to the “History (the Dead)” of the 2010s, and finally arriving at the current “generative process of layering (a struggle in the present progressive).” The “eye” was once a device for observing the landscape (the world). In time, the “eye” turned inward upon itself, beginning a quest to discern how to connect memory, past pain, and historical rupture into the present moment. Passing through these eras of objectivity and subjectivity, the works of the 2020s* occupy an era of integration. They continuously overwrite the past, causing the former device—the eye—to collide with the layers of memory. Here, time is not recovered; it is amplified.

*The 2020s: Marked by a hiatus in painting lasting approximately four to five years, which roughly coincides with the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it was also during this interval that the drawing-print series “C-Correspondence” (C-Tsushin) was realized.