THE ROTATORS
Jan. 2006, Alive Art Matsuri Vol. 1, Kanagawa, Japan
household electrical appliance and mixed media, variable dimensions
photo by Masaki Hirano
Copyright ©2006 Ujino Muneteru, All rights reserved.

Born 1964, Tokyo, Japan, Ujino’s predominantly plays with and materializes the gap between the tangible and in the intangible. An example of such work is the use of correct Japanese and incorrect English in his katakana-shaped sculptures. His “sculpturesque” painted “forms” carved out English-loaned words such as “y-shirt” and “g-pan” in katakana, which at first glance can easily be mistaken for calligraphic representations. Katakana as a means to literalize the sound, the intangible, and also that it is carved from a dense material such as wood, the tangible, gives Ujino’s works additional significance in the related idea of crossed linguistic and cultural signals. Ujino exposes the evolution of the Japanese language, its misuse of the Western language and simultaneously, its consumption of Western culture on its own terms. Parallel to his creation of sculpture-like works based on the sounds of English-loaned words, Ujino continuously explores with physical objects that connote tangibility and intangibility. His accumulation of practical, everyday-life objects all are representatives of the tangible in our life. However, he experiments with the double-dimensions of those materials by creating also an intangible effect, namely sounds. His amalgamation of physical objects that surround him and enable him to compose sounds and noises from them, shows the flux between the two bipolar concepts.
Ujino currently lives and works in Tokyo.

1964年生于日本东京。宇治野宗輝拥有卓越的处理、物化真实和虚拟之间鸿沟的能力。这种作品的一个范例是在他的片假名状的雕塑中同时运用正确的日语和错误的英语。他“雕刻”般着色的【形式”】在片假名中雕刻出了诸如“y-shirt”和“g-pan”之类的文字，这些文字乍看上去容易被误认为是片假名的文字式表达。片假名成为一种解释声音、无形物和类似于木头的密质材料雕刻的、形物体的方式，为宇治野宗輝的作品在语言学和文化信号方面的融合概念上额外提供了重要意义。宇治野宗輝揭示日语的演进过程，日语对西方语言的误用，同时还有日语在自己术语里对西方文化的借用。与他基于借鉴英语词汇发音而创作的雕刻状作品并行的是，宇治野宗輝一直在探索实际物体，那些实际事物隐含着有形和无形的东西。他的实践积累，日常生活物品都体现在我们的活中。然而，他通过创作，用那些材料所进行的二维实验也是一个无形结果，即声音。他对自己周围实际存在的，及能使他从中编排出声音和噪声的事物的合并显示出两个相反概念之间的融合。宇治野宗輝目前在东京生活和工作。