„Der Kreis der Tage“ means "The Circle of Days" in German.
Hirofumi Abe has been drawing "Circles" in everyday life.
His “Circles” keeps transforming each day.
It silently wears meanings before he even knew it.
Artist Statement / English
Ghosts & Memories
1. Paper has its own memory that no one can know.
2. I trace the memory, and then I draw improvised lines (as it was drawn already there).
3. I consider how I fix the lines on paper, and leave actions as traces of thought.
4. The drawing will remain even after I passed away.
This is my process of drawing.
I don’t know why the improvised line and shape comes out.
I trace the line like as engraving and fix it on paper.
Thus I surmise the drawing was derived from my memories.
Ghosts can not exist by itself, it can exist in a relationship with others.
I try to find the existence of a ghost from the memory of paper.
Others find the paths taken by my hands from the drawing.
They also can retrace to be their own memory.
My drawing can therefore be a device that evokes (could be important) forgotten memories.
“not in order to read it (to read its symbolism) but to follow the trajectory of the hand which has written it: a true writing, since it produces a volume and since, forbidding our reading to be the simple decoding of a message (however loftily symbolic), it permits this reading to repeat the course of the writing's labor.”
— Roland Barthes "Empire of Signs"
Pencil on Old Paper (with Grayboard)
16.5 × 12.5 cm (21 × 29.7 cm)
20 February 2020●
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25 February 2020
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27 February 2020●
28 February 2020
29 February 2020
1 March 2020
2 March 2020
3 March 2020●
4 March 2020●
5 March 2020●
Medium-sized Drawings
Pencil on Old Paper (with Grayboard)
23 × 21.5 cm (29.7 × 36 cm)
24 February 2020●
25 February 2020
26 February 2020
27 February 2020
28 February 2020
29 February 2020
1 March 2020●
2 March 2020●
3 March 2020
Large-sized Drawings
01. Pencil on Japanese Handcrafted Paper
60 × 41.5 cm
02. Pencil on Old Paper (with Frame) ●
27 × 32.5 cm (43 × 52 cm)
Blurring
This time, I have added a “blurring” step to the drawing process.
By blurring and evanescing the trace of action, the drawing enlarges its existence and turns into something more imaginable.
Furthermore by repeating the drawing and blurring, the traces of action are layered over and over.
The layers are exactly memories and silently wear meanings.
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Annett Kuschan
salonkuschan@gmx.de
Hirofui Abe
is a Japanese drawing artist / graphic designer and lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He draws lines and faces its traces of memories. He repeats it every day.
