3月12日，被日本藝術界視為“登龍門”的VOCA 2020當代藝術展在目前疫情的憂慮中，還是在上野之森美術館拉開了帷幕。
The VOCA2020 -New artist of painting (Vision of Contemporary Art) exhibition was held by Ueno-Royal Art Museum in Tokyo. The exhibition period is from March 12 to March 30, 2020.
上野之森美術館門口 神奈川美術館館長水澤勉（左）和參展藝術家江上越（右）
Director of Kanagawa Modern Museum ,Mizusawa Tsutomu and Etsu Egami
當代美術展望VOCA展創立於1994年，旨在向世界向未來推出新興傑出的藝術家。該展邀請日本全國重要美術館的資深策展人、大學教授及評論家推薦40歲以下的“獨特的、必然性的作品，具有國際性視野和強烈表現力的出色藝術家”。
VOCA展在日本藝術界具有重大的影響力。1994年被推薦的藝術家村上隆、1997年的奈良美智、2003年的田中功起、2003年的五木田智央等等這些藝術家不但都成為了後來日本藝術界的領軍人物，同時也蜚聲國際。VOCA展的學術委員也是一直保持了日本藝術界最高水平，如國立西洋美術館館長高橋秀爾、日本國立近代美術館主策展人本江邦夫、神奈川近代美術館主策展人酒井忠康等等。所以，躋身VOCA（Vision of Contemporary Art）展在日本被視為當代藝術家的“登龍門”。
VOCA exhibition
VOCA exhibition was founded in 1994, aiming to introduce new and outstanding artists to the world in the future. The exhibition invited senior curators, university professors and critics from Japan's national important art museums to recommend "unique and inevitable works, outstanding artists with international vision and strong expressive force" under 40 years old.
VOCA exhibition has great influence in Japanese art field. The recommended artists in 1994, Takashi Murakami,Nara Yoshitomo in 1997, Tomoo Gokita in 2003, are not only the leaders of the later Japanese art field, but also famous internationally. The academic committee members of voca exhibition have always maintained the highest level of Japanese art field, such as Shuji Takashina, director of the National Western Art Museum,Kunio Motoe, curator of the National Modern Art Museum, Sakai , curator of the Kanagawa Modern Art Museum, etc. Therefore, joining the vision of contemporary art exhibition in Japan is regarded as the "landing gate" of contemporary artists.
開幕現場
Opening in Ueno-Royal Museum in Tokyo
Opening of Artist Etsu Egami
今年的VOCA 2020展的學術委員是美術評論家小勝禮子，DIC川村美術館主策展人光田由裡，大原美術館主策展人柳澤秀行，神奈川近代美術館館長水澤勉，多摩美術大學教授家村珠代。推薦策展人有千葉市美術館策展人畑井惠，國立國際美術館策展人福元崇志，東京都美術館策展人鎮西芳美，田村麗惠，金澤21世紀美術館策展人野中佑美子，豐田市美術館策展人千葉真智子，廣島市現代美術館策展人竹口浩司，十和田市現代美術館策展人金澤韻等等34位新一代優秀策展人。
出席開幕式的嘉賓有日本藝術界的重鎮高橋秀爾，神奈川近代美術館館長水澤勉，VOCA委員會會長小勝禮子，DIC川村美術館主策展人光田由裡，大原美術館主策展人柳澤秀行，多摩藝術大學校長建畠晢、多摩美術大學教授家村珠代，千葉市美術館策展人畑井惠，東京都美術館策展人田村麗惠，上野之森美術館策展人坂元暁美，岡裡崇等。
開幕式上VOCA2020實行委員會會長，美術評論家小勝禮子談到“在特殊疫情中，我們不能大聲說讓大家來看這個展覽，但是VOCA2020能順利開幕讓我鬆了一口氣。相信藝術在這種情況下更富有意義。”
VOCA 2020
The academic committee members of this year's voca 2020 exhibition are Ms.Reiko Kokatsu director of VOCA, director of DIC Kawamura Art Museum Yuri Mitsuda, director of Ohara Art Museum Hideyuki Yanagisawa, director of Kanagawa Modern Art Museum Tsutomu Mizusawa, and professor of Tama Art University Tamayo Iemura
. The recommended curators are Megumi Hatai, curator of Chiba City Museum of art, Mr.Fukumoto Takashi, curator of National International art museum, Ms.Lie Tamura and Chinzei Yoshimi curator of Tokyo Metropolitan art museum, Ms. Yumiko Nonaka curator of Kanazawa 21st century art museum, Ms.Chiba Machiko, curator of Toyota City Art Museum,Hiroshi Takeguchi curator of Hiroshima city Modern Art Museum, and Kodama Kanazawa curator of Towada city modern Art Museum ....they are 34 important curators of the new generation.
At the VIP opening, many people came Mr.Shuji Takashina who is the director of The National Museum of Western Art, Mr.Tsutomu Mizusawa the director of Modern Museum of Kanagawa, Ms.Kokatsu the director of VOCA, Ms.Yuri Mitsuda chief curator of Kawamura DIC Memorial Museum, Mr.Hideyuki Yangisawa chief curator of Ohara Museum of Art, Mr.Akira Tatehata president of Tama Art University, Ms.Tamayo Iemura Professor of Tama Art University , Ms.Megumi Hatai curator of CCMA museum, Ms.Rie Tamura curator of Tokyo Metropolitan art museum, Ms.Asami Sakamoto chief curator.
Ms.Reiko Kokatsu director of VOCA spoke at the opening “We are very happy to open VOCA2020 in this special times. I believe art will be more precious and worthful in this time. ”
江上越的作品《Portrait of communication》
江上越是VOCA展2020中最年輕的參展藝術家也是，歷屆VOCA展中唯一一位中央美術學院在校生。江上越1994年出生與日本。留學北京中央美術學院，德國HFG（The Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design）、目前在中央美術學院攻讀博士課程。基於自身豐富的海外體驗重新思考人類交流的可能性，從語言學到社會學，人類學，哲學等各種學術領域辛勤探索，她通過語言的起源探討人的本性，反思語言導致的社會。她的每一個藝術「項目」，積累了大量的在地性現場調查和文獻資料，用更宏觀的角度，以交流的主題為主線，一個個不斷深入，在國際上得到高度的評價。作為最年輕的藝術家入圍Sovereign Art Foundation的亞洲傑出藝術家2020 Finalsit其作品被莫斯科車庫美術館收藏。最近舉辦了日本白石畫廊銀座本館的個展“江上越展：你的名字？”，“In to the light...Etsu Egami solo show”（德國）、“Dialogue beyond 400 years”（倫敦）、“This is not a Mis-hearing game”（北京德薩畫廊）、“對話4000年-江上越個展”（日本千葉市藝術文化新人獎獲獎項目）等個展。
千葉市美術館策展人，畑井惠談到“ 即使是別人或者自己，有著面對陌生人時候的眼前的隔閡。江上所描繪的交流不是為了拉近彼此的距離，而是為了知道彼此的距離。仔細觀察這段縫隙，在確定邊界之彼岸中，“交流”自然會浮現出來。在充滿透明感的薄薄的畫面深處，可以看到江上追求的交流的厚度。 ”
EtsuEgami is the youngest artist in the VOCA exhibition 2020, and the only one that still are student in Central Academy of Fine Arts in previous all VOCA exhibitions. Among the recommended artists this year, the youngest one, Etsu EGAMI, is deeply concerned.
Etsu Egami is an international artist currently being very active in London, Germany, Chicago, and Beijing. Based on her overseas experiences, her consistent production activities on the theme of communication have been evaluated internationally. Thus, she was nominated for the VOCA exhibition at The Ueno Royal Musem by the recommendation of Megumi Hatai, a curator of Chiba City Museum of Art.
Etsu Egami was born in Japan, in 1994. She studied abroad at HfG Karlsruhe (The Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design). in Germany, Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing. Currently, she studies at the Central Academy of fine arts for a doctor’s degree. She reconsiders the possibility of communication from her wide experience of oversea, and studies from various academic fields such as linguistics to sociology, anthropology, and philosophy including the origin of languages. Particularly, she devotes herself to a reconsideration of society by words. Her “project” gained international acclaim for the site-specific field survey and documentation. And those factors have deepened the theme of “communication” and highly praised internationally.
As the youngest artist, she was shortlisted for a sovereign art foundation as an Asian Art Prise2019 finalist, also as an outstanding Asian artist, her works were collected by the Moscow Garage Museum of Art. Most recently, solo exhibitions such as “In to the light… Etsu Egami solo show” (Germany), “Dialogue beyond 400 years” (London), “This is not a Mis-hearing game” (Beijing), “Dialogue-4,000 years-Etsu Egami Exhibition” (Chiba City Art and Culture Newcomer Award Winning Project) were held. In addition, her graduation works received a prize and collected by the Museum of the University.
Her recommender is Megumi Hatai, curator of Chiba City Museum of Art, which is one of the important contemporary art museums in Japan. About recommending Etsu EGAMI, Hatai said,
“Dauntless yet delicate strokes. Figurative or abstract? Animate or inanimate? Depending on the distance and angle at which this painting is viewed, its appearance, even the impression of the coloring, changes quite significantly.
Egami was born and raised in Chiba. She went on to the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing to study oil painting from an East Asian perspective. Motivated by actual experiences of mishearing due to differences in language, she continues to produce works on the theme of cognition through communication. Having portrayed others with a creativity inspired by trivial discords in her everyday life, Egami confronts her own childhood in this work.
There exists a gap we all come up against when confronting someone, be it another person or even ourselves. Egami takes communication as her subject not in an effort to bring one another closer but rather to acknowledge that fundamental distance. Through careful examination of that gap and confirmation of its border, there are also forms that surface of their own accord. Egami’s thinly painted translucent canvases allow us to plunge into the depths of the artist’s never-ending pursuit of communication.”
日本銀座白石畫廊《江上越個展》2019年
Whitestone gallery ginza new gallery《 Etsu Egami solo show: Your Name》2019
《This is not a Mis-hearing game》2012-2016 sound installation
《Dialgoue beyond 400 years》 2018 video installation
江上越談到因留學中國的經驗給了她非常大的啟發，看到了油畫的新的可能性。期待江上越在上野之森美術館展出的作品會給於我們一個新的視野。是否可以看到東方繪畫的新的可能性呢？是否能繼村上隆、奈良美智、五木田智央之後誕生新一代的新星藝術家呢？
20世紀末的繪畫，正如日本美術評論家千葉成夫指出的：“進入21世紀的繪畫現在被放置的狀況，對於畫家來說是非常痛苦的。想要表現什麼‘主題’的幻覺主義的樣式，或者是排除這種樣式只專注於繪畫的造型性的抽象繪畫(僅僅這樣)也已經不成立了。這就是現代繪畫的殘酷現實”。 江上越以各種形式探索交流主題的結果，讓她有機會在一個新的地平線上將抽象繪畫的精髓與社會現實重新對話，這個過程會不會演繹出千葉成夫提出的“後繪畫”的前景呢？
《VOCA展2020 當代美術的展望——新的平面的作家們——》
《VOCA委員會》
委員長
小勝禮子 (美術史?美術批評)
副委員長
畑中秀夫 (第一生命保険株式會社取締役常務執行役員)
委員
光田由裡 (DIC川村記念美術館主策展人)
柳沢秀行 (大原美術館策展人)
水沢勉 (神奈川県立近代美術館館長)
家村珠代 （多摩美術大學教授）
泉菜々子 (第一生命保険株式會社DSR推進室課長)
坂元暁美 (上野之森美術館主策展人)
特備贊助：日本第一生命保險公司
Etsu Egami talked about the experience of studying in China, which gave her the greatest inspiration and saw the new possibility of oil painting. What kind of works do you expect Etsu Egami to exhibit in the Ueno-Royal Art Museum? Can we see the new possibilities of Oriental painting? Can a new generation of new artists be born after Takashi Murakami, Nara Yoshitomo?
The painting at the end of the 20th century, as Japanese art critic Shigeo Chiba pointed out, "the situation that the painting in the 21st century is now placed is very painful for the painter. The illusionism style of "theme" or the abstract painting that only focuses on the modeling of painting (just like this) is no longer tenable. This is the cruel reality of modern painting. Etsu Egami explores the results of exchange themes in various forms, which gives her the opportunity to re talk the essence of abstract painting with social reality on a new horizon. Will this process deduce the prospect of "post painting" proposed by Shigeo Chiba? It's worth looking forward to! The exhibition opened on March 12 at the Ueno-Royal Museum of Art in Tokyo, Japan.
Etsu Egami said that he was very worried about the epidemic situation and hoped that it would subside as soon as possible and work together to overcome the difficulties.
（右）東京都美術館策展人田村麗恵，（中）VOCA實行委員會長小勝禮子，（左）江上越
Tokyo Metroporitan Art Musuem Curator Tamura Yurie ，Director of VOCA Kokatsu Reiko and Etsu Egami
多摩藝術大學院長建畠晢教授和江上越
Director of Tama Art Museum and Yayoi Kusama Museum Tatehata Akira and Etsu Egami
上野之森美術館
Ueno-Royal Museum
上野之森美術館門口 VOCA展2020海報
《VOCA2020 perspective of Contemporary Art -New Painter》
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