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Artist Statement

Since 1990, I have been continuously creating drawings that are composed of brush-drawn line works as a life's work. This started out as a warm-up exercise before I officially started on a piece of work. Recently, I am starting to feel that there is a connection between these drawings and my current works. There is a famous music recording called “Automatic Writing”(1979) by American experimental composer Robert Ashley. It is said that he produced a combination of words and electronic sound for the first time in this recording. Music has always influenced my works; translating sound to images is a consistent theme in my practice. For this reason, this exhibition references the title of Robert Ashley’s recording, and I attempt to generate “Automatic Writing” through drawings. Elements of automatic writing are inherently rooted in my instincts; not thinking and freely drawing line works. This time, however, I have chosen to instill the drawings I have ceaselessly drawn for the last 30 years onto plaster surfaces through the employment of laser cutting methods. This series comprises 40 plaster surfaces, and together I present to you “Automatic Writing”. Alongside, I am also presenting works made using character letters that I have produced in recent years. I am also exhibiting paintings with plant motifs, as shown at Gallery Trax.

Jun Tsunoda

Artist Profile
Jun Tsunoda
Born in Aichi Prefecture, 1960.
After working as a creative director, he started his career as an artist in the mid-2000s. His major group exhibitions include “The Unseen Relationship: Form and Abstraction”(Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2012), “Looking for the 4th Dimension With Works of Salvador Dali and Contemporary Art” (Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, 2019 ), and more. His major solo exhibitions include “Hollow Organ”(Curator’s Cube, 2017), “A New Career In A New Town” (Parcel, Tokyo, 2019), etc. He has also produced the art book collections,  “Cave" and "SOUND AND VISION”.