Untitled2003Sheet: 55 x 27 " (139.7 x 68.6 cm)Ink on paperGift of the artist and Phyllis Kind Gallery2005.20.101545773426Hiroyuki DoiDrawings© Hiroyuki DoiTokyoTokyoJapanWorks on PaperTokyoIn the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution incited a counterreaction among creative communities to combat the coldness of machine production with the touch of the handmade object. The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Doi cites a similar rebellion against technology and computerized society as the major influence in his artmaking. At some point Doi’s idiom of tiny circles took on an animation of its own, as though he were keeping the world itself alive through the multitudinous circles that assumed dimensions of galaxies, topographies, and natural forces: “I believe human work using human hands has to be emphasized more. By drawing, I started to feel relief; at some point I started to feel that something other than myself allowed me to draw these works. Suppose every creature is a circle, how many of them can I draw? That is my life work and my challenge. I have to keep on working; otherwise nothing will be brought into existence. By drawing circles I feel I am alive and existing in the cosmos.”
Stacy C. Hollander, "Untitled," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
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To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org20032003 2005 20 1 In the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution incited a counterreaction among creative communities to combat the coldness of machine production with the touch of the handmade object. The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Doi cites a similar rebellion against technology and computerized society as the major influence in his artmaking. At some point Doi’s idiom of tiny circles took on an animation of its own, as though he were keeping the world itself alive through the multitudinous circles that assumed dimensions of galaxies, topographies, and natural forces: “I believe human work using human hands has to be emphasized more. By drawing, I started to feel relief; at some point I started to feel that something other than myself allowed me to draw these works. Suppose every creature is a circle, how many of them can I draw? That is my life work and my challenge. I have to keep on working; otherwise nothing will be brought into existence. By drawing circles I feel I am alive and existing in the cosmos.”
Stacy C. Hollander, "Untitled," exhibition label for Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined. Stacy C. Hollander, curator. New York: American Folk Art Museum, 2012.
Object information is a work in progress and may be updated with new research. Records are reviewed and revised, and the American Folk Art Museum welcomes additional information.
To help improve this record, please email photoservices@folkartmuseum.org