「紅天」村上裕二
[Red Sky] Yuji Murakami
村上裕二氏作品 （平成23.09.24) 10号
鮮烈な色彩で天空の広がりを切り取った一作。タイトルにある「紅」は、ただの赤ではなく、昼と夜の境界を揺らす大気の色を宿しているかのようだ。空の果てに漂う光の気配は、観る者を日常から切り離し、見えない高みへと誘う。村上は自然や象徴的なモチーフを通じて、時間の流れと人間の感受性を描き続けてきた。本作では天と地が交錯する瞬間をとらえ、色彩と余白の対比を通して、静けさと躍動感が同居する空間を創出している。
Red Sky — Yuji Murakami (2011 / Size 10 / Japanese Painting)
In this vibrant work, the artist captures an expansive sky suffused with a deep, resonant red—a hue that seems to carry both the fading light of day and the promise of night. Rather than representing a literal landscape, Red Sky evokes the atmosphere of transition, drawing the viewer into a space suspended between worlds. Through bold color and thoughtful use of negative space, Murakami transforms the sky into a realm of poetic tension, where stillness and movement coexist. This piece speaks to his ongoing exploration of perception, emotion, and the unseen forces that shape our experience of the natural world.
村上裕二氏はこれまで、滝や風景といった自然、地中海や中国の建造物、さらにはウルトラマンやゴジラ、仮面ライダーといった現代の象徴的存在まで、多様な題材を描いてきた。一見ばらばらに見えるそれらは、いずれも「人が何に畏れ、何に祈り、何に意味を見出してきたか」という問いへとつながっている。
Yuji Murakami has explored a wide range of subjects throughout his career, including natural motifs such as waterfalls, architectural landscapes of the Mediterranean and China, as well as iconic figures from Japanese popular culture such as Ultraman, Godzilla, and Kamen Rider. Though diverse in appearance, these subjects are connected by a consistent inquiry into what humans fear, revere, and transform into objects of belief.
