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TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY is pleased to present "SYNOPTES," a solo exhibition by Daisuke Ida.
Daisuke Ida was born in 1987 in Tottori, Japan, and currently lives and works in Tokyo. In 2015, he completed the masterʼs course at
the Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in sculpture. In 2022, he participated in "Grid Island" at the Seoul Museum of Art. Currently
participating in the "Distant Present Universal / Remote" at Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, has been active in Japan andabroad.
While questioning the expressive form of sculpture, Ida has used various media, including sculpture, video, and 3DCG, to visualize theinvisible structures and concrete events of contemporary society and the consciousness and desires of the people living there.
Since 2016, he has been working on "Photo Sculpture," a series of sculptures of objects and bodies after the Internet, using anonymous images uploaded by people all over the world as materials. In addition, he has been dealing with themes such as the growing
disparity of wealth and the excessive emphasis on productivity amid modernization and globalization and attempting to reveal thedistortion of the social system and the friction and dilemmas that arise from it through his artwork.
These activities can be seen as the artist's personal awareness of the question of how an individual's existence with reality isconnected or connected to the "whole" world by examining the "details" and using them as a starting point. Ida poses various "questions" to the viewer about society and the world, which has a large amount of "homework" to do against the backdrop of the times andregions in which he has lived.
In his solo exhibition "The Covered Finger" at Tezukayama Gallery in 2019, he presented a work focusing on the "mannequin" that hasreplaced sculpture as the representation of the "ideal human body" as "modern sculpture" as a genre has lapsed due to the trend ofmodernization in society. Ida is one of the artists who have accepted and self-referenced sculptural expression after the digitalmachine tools represented by 3D printers and laser cutters. It was inevitable that the mannequin, reﬂecting the image of the "ideal
human body" that is constantly being dismantled and transformed by reproduced images, should be treated as the "origin" of data
sculpture in the 21st century.
In this exhibition, he presents works that address the themes of physicality and changes in perspective in the post-corona (the virtualappearing virtual in reality), as well as the surveillance society. The title of this exhibition, "SYNOPTES," is a coined word thatcombines the Greek myth of "Argos Panoptes," a giant with numerous eyes, and the concept of "Synopticon" proposed by the Norwegian sociologist Thomas Mathiesen. Drawing on the myth of the numerous-eyed giant, from which the term 'panopticon', referring toa surveillance system that appeared in the 8th century, is derived, Ida sculpts the ﬁgure we live in today.

PRESS RELEASE (2/3)□ Biography

Daisuke Ida
Live and work in Tokyo, Japan
1987

Born in Tottori, Japan.

2015

M.F.A. Tokyo University of the Arts.

2016

MAD artist practice

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021

You ring the bells, but it doesn't stop. | Decameron, Tokyo2019

The covered ﬁnger | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka

2018

Photo Sculpture | 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

2016

Honey,it is my home | Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo

2015

NOWHERE | Yonago City Museum of Art, Tottori

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Universal / Remote ｜ Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto
ART OSAKA 2023 GALLERIES Section ｜ Osaka City Central Public Hall, Osaka
The Constitution of JAPAN | AOYAMA｜MEGURO, TokyoMETAMETA vol.04 | BnA Alter Museum, Kyoto
EASTEAST̲TOKYO 2023 | Science Museum, Tokyo
ONE ART TAIPEI 2023 | Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei Taiwan, Taiwan

2022

Daisuke Ida / Takuya Watanabe Duo Exhibition | Decameron, Tokyo
Amalgam ｜ MAKI Collection, Tokyo
Grid Island | SeMA, Korea

2021

DELTA 2021 ｜ SEASIDE STUDIO CASO, Osaka2019Patching (and Darning) | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka

2018

Directorsʼ Selection FOCUS | TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka2017

Haiku-Sculpture 2017 | Joshibi University of Art and Design Art Museum
LOVE LOVE SHOW 2 | AOMORI MUSEUM OF ART, Aomori

2016

FUJINOYAMA BIENNALE 2016 | Fuji-shi, Shizuoka
Sculpture ‒ anachronism & ﬂash | THE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Tokyo
Chaos*Lounge: The Gates of Hell | Iwaki-shi, Fukushima
Aesthetic Order | MAKII MASARU FINE ARTS, Tokyo
The 19th Taro Okamoto Award | TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa

2015

TRANS ARTS TOKYO 2015 | GAKUSHIKAIKAN, Tokyo
Chaos*Lounge: Dies Iraeʼ | Iwaki City, Fukushima
TOKYO WANDER WALL 2015 | MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO, Tokyo
The2nd COMTENPORARY ART FOUNDATION ART AWARD EXHIBITION | 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo

PRESS RELEASE (3/3)□ Artworks

Solo Exhibition "The covered ﬁnger" (2019)
Venue: TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY
Photo by Hyogo Mugyuda

Superscription Sculpture #22019
3D print, resin
H300 x W120 x D130 mm□Exhibition Information

Daisuke Ida

SYNOPTES
2023.11.24 [Fri] - 12.23 [Sat]
営業時間: 火 - 土 12 : 00 - 19 : 00 | 休廊日: 日曜日・月曜日・祝日
OPEN: Tue - Sat 12:00 - 19:00 | CLOSED: Sunday, Monday and Holiday
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Exhibition View of "DELTA 2021" (2021)
Venue: CASO, Osaka
Photo by Hyogo Mugyuda

Synoptes (2023)
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