Makoto Ishiwata

　　VACUUM PACKING !

　　 vacuum packing　a state of mind of meat.
　　 inside and ouitside　it seems to inside, but, in fact, it seems to be the outside.
　　 rubber fetish　a pleasant feeling when putting rubber on the body.
　　 coherence friendly　relation with a work by doing it.
　　 eroticism　you try to become excited by an art work.
　　 pop　cheerful, pleasantly, brightly.
　　 a sense of crisis　you try to feel a crisis in a gallery.
　　 the first experience　whenever a person become old, dokidoki, wakuwaku [palpitations] of first
　　　　　experience will decreance.
　　 bodily sensation type 　it is almost forcible, feel it by a lot of nervers so long as you are possible.
　　 various ways 　watch a work, touch to feel is everything. A thing to take in each person. What an
　　　　　artist thought about and did to make the work is not important. In reverse, do not limit feeling to
　　　　　taking sides with me looking at a statement and explantion from me. The people who say that art
　　　　　is difficult cannot understand it for oneself. What I was interested in usually and the work are mixed
　　　　　relation (ships) of peaple and art.

　　Makoto Ishiwata
　　1976　Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

　　Education & Experience
　　2000　B-Seminar Schooling System completed.

　　Selected Exhibits:
　　1999　31st B-Semi Exhibition, Giseifuli [sacrifice fly], Yokohama Shimin Gallery
　　　　　　Haizuka Earthwork Project, Art sufia haizuka '99, Homestay, Hiroshima
　　2000　Haizuka Earthwork Project, Chisaina bijutsukan, permanent installation, Hiroshima
　　　　　　32st B-Semi Exhibition, Yokohama Galleria, Bellini no oka Gallery
　　2001　Zip Zip Zip Exhibition, Gallery H
　　　　　　Tokyo Rabbit Paradise, TRaP
　　2002　Vacuum Packing, T.L.A.P, Tokyo

　　MAKOTO ISHIWATA is a conceptual artist whose recent work engages the audience in the experience of
　　both physical materials and effects. The work for this exhibition Vacuum Packing is both immediate in
　　the unexpected experience of seeing individuals voluntarily shrink wrapped and at the same time invokes
　　larger questions of our sensory deprivation and encounters with the world. He exhibits in Japan and this
　　is his first exhibition in the U.S.