Born 1950 in Takayama, Japan
Lives and works in Saitama, Japan
The 11-meter boat-shaped sculpture carved from wood has a carbonized surface fired entirely and saturated with tar — a production process evocative of primordial sacrifice. The boat represents a vehicle that moves us through the water’s surface or a field of liberation, and suggests acceptance and relief of all impulse. For this installation, Endo creates a composition of two ‘voids’ — a boat and a mirror — facing each other. The void is a subject central to the artist’s exploration, signifying an attraction and enchanted charm that draws all things into a limitless source of metaphysical imagination. Endo takes it to be a place with the potential to absorb or expel entities across border lines that delimit our everyday existence.
Image: Reference image, Void - Wooden Boat (2009), Toshikatsu Endo.
遠藤利克
《空 — 木船，香港》
（2009 – 2018）
85 × 113 × 1100 厘米
木、焦油、火
1950 年出生於日本高山
現於日本埼玉生活及工作
這個11米長的船形雕塑，用木頭雕刻而成，其碳化外層是因塗抹了焦油及經火燒處理，令人聯想到原始時代的獻祭。這艘船代表的是一種交通工具，將我們飄浮於水面上或自由解放的領域中，因此它意味着接受所有衝動，並從中得到緩解。遠藤利克的這個裝置設計，以一艘船和一面鏡子組成了兩個互相面對面的「空」。「空」是遠藤探索的核心，它意味著一種將所有事物誘使過來的吸引力和神奇魅力，是形而上學想像的無限泉源。遠藤將它設定為一個地方，這個地方劃定了我們日常存在的邊界，並且有潛力將東西吸進邊界內或驅逐於邊界外。
