{"product_id":"charity-takeshi-ikeda","title":"Takeshi Ikeda「Blocks series Blocks #Veil  （ベール）」","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e池田健（Takeshi Ikeda）\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e「Blocks series Blocks #Veil  （ベール）」（2025）\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e技法：Intrecciato(Braided) ※編み込み cigar ribbon, gold thread\u003cbr\u003eサイズ：H9.1 by W12 by D11 cm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE CHARITY #01 -アートで動物を救う- 出品作品（1点もの）。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eアーティストからのコメント\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e今回、日頃よりお世話になっているJPS Galleryからお声がけをいただき、この企画に参加できることを嬉しく思います。\n\n私は動物と暮らした経験はありませんが、友人が保護犬と過ごす姿から、救うことと救われることの境界は、私たちが思うほど明確ではないと感じています。\n\n私たちは他の動物や植物と場所を分かち合い、無数の生命に支えられて生きています。今回出品するBOXシリーズは、役割を終え、人の意識から静かに離れていく素材をもう一度見つめ直し、異なる時間と関係を与える作品です。この作品が、人間以外の存在へ静かに想像を向ける小さな入口になれば幸いです。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eアーティストについて\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e池田健（Takeshi Ikeda）\u003c\/strong\u003e（日本）\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2002年、芝浦工業大学工学部を卒業後、東京を拠点にアート活動を開始。彼の創作は、素材が持つ視覚的な情報や、歴史から得られる感覚に基づき、その本質を新たな形へと再構築することから始まります。シガーリボンやタバコの箱、シルクやサテンのリボン、和紙、西陣織の帯や着物など、多様な素材を用いながら、平面・立体の作品やインスタレーションを発表してきました。彼は文化的に多様な環境で育ち、その背景が芸術家としての視点に大きな影響を与えています。祖母は小さなたばこ店を営み、たばこと共にある暮らしの文化が幼少期の記憶に深く刻まれました。祖父は地域社会に根ざした起業精神を体現する企業の創業者でした。また、叔父と叔母は日本におけるパッチワークキルトの先駆者であり、「布によって物語を構築できる」という感覚を教えてくれました。この感性は、現在のコラージュを基盤とした表現に息づいています。父は写真家であり、日本を代表する写真家・木村伊兵衛の弟子でした。彼にとって写真は「視線を鍛える」初期の訓練であり、父から受け継いだ美的な規律は、作品の構図や構造的な感覚に脈打っています。さらに家系には、大手企業の役員、大学学長、漫画家、複数の起業家といった多様な人物がいます。彼らそれぞれが、社会と創造性の交差点における思考に影響を与えてきました。こうした背景を持つ彼の作品は、単なる視覚的表現を超え、文化や記憶、制度的構造を重層的に探求するものとなっています。その実践は、素材と歴史、個人と制度、芸術と社会の関係を問い続ける営みに根ざしているのです。\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eアーティストのBIO \u0026amp; CV：\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/6024\/6725\/files\/bio-takeshi-ikeda-jp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e日本語（PDF）\u003c\/a\u003e ／ \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/6024\/6725\/files\/bio-takeshi-ikeda-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eEnglish (PDF)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTakeshi Ikeda, “Blocks series Blocks #Veil  （ベール）” (2025)\u003cbr\u003eIntrecciato(Braided) ※編み込み cigar ribbon, gold thread\u003cbr\u003eH9.1 by W12 by D11 cm \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExhibited at THE CHARITY #01 “Saving Animals Through Art”. One-of-a-kind work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eArtist’s Comment\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am very happy to be able to participate in this project after being invited by JPS Gallery, whom I have had the pleasure of working with and receiving support from over the years.\n\nAlthough I have never lived with an animal myself, seeing a friend share their life with a rescued dog has made me realize that the boundary between saving and being saved is not as clear as we might think.\n\nWe share our world with countless animals and plants, and our lives are sustained by innumerable forms of life. The BOX series presented in this exhibition takes another look at materials that have fulfilled their original purpose and are quietly fading from human consciousness, giving them a new context and a different relationship with time.\n\nI hope that this work can become a small doorway through which we quietly turn our imagination toward forms of existence beyond humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Artist\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTakeshi Ikeda\u003c\/strong\u003e (Japan)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Faculty of Engineering in 2002, he began his artistic practice based in Tokyo. His creative process starts with reconfiguring the essence of materials, drawing from their inherent visual information and the sensibilities derived from history. Using diverse materials such as cigar ribbons, tobacco boxes, silk and satin ribbons, washi paper, and Nishijin-ori obi and kimono, he has produced and exhibited both two-dimensional and three-dimensional works as well as installations. He was raised in a culturally diverse environment, which has profoundly shaped his perspective as an artist. His grandmother ran a small tobacco shop, embedding in his earliest memories the culture of living alongside tobacco. His grandfather was a company founder who embodied an entrepreneurial spirit deeply rooted in the local community. His uncle and aunt were pioneers in the Japanese patchwork quilting scene and taught him that “stories can be constructed through fabric,” a sensibility that continues to live on in his collage-based practice today. His father was a photographer and a disciple of Ihei Kimura, one of Japan’s most renowned photographers. For him, photography was an early form of “training the gaze,” and the aesthetic discipline inherited from his father pulses through the composition and structural sensibility of his work. His extended family also includes figures such as corporate executives, a university president, a manga artist, and several entrepreneurs. Each, in their own way, has influenced his thinking at the intersection of society and creativity. With such a background, his work transcends mere visual expression, becoming a layered exploration of culture, memory, and institutional structure. His practice is rooted in an ongoing inquiry into the relationships between material and history, the individual and the system, art and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eArtist BIO \u0026amp; CV: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/6024\/6725\/files\/bio-takeshi-ikeda-jp.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJapanese (PDF)\u003c\/a\u003e \/ \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/6024\/6725\/files\/bio-takeshi-ikeda-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eEnglish (PDF)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Takeshi Ikeda","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46810486177989,"sku":"ART-056","price":110000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/6024\/6725\/files\/art-056.jpg?v=1787686594","url":"https:\/\/store.petolog.me\/products\/charity-takeshi-ikeda","provider":"ペトログストア","version":"1.0","type":"link"}