Ryuta Iida was born in 1981 in Shizuoka. As a sculpture stu- dent at Nihon University College of Art, He won the grand prize in the 22nd Exhibition of Graphic Art Hitotsubo-ten, and a Kitano Foundation scholarship. His career has grown from strength to strength, with works shown at various venues and exhibitions, such as graf media gm, Fact of Accu- mulation 07, Osaka 2007, Bunkamura Gallery Arts & Crafts and Gallery +, Tokyo 2006 and more. He teamed up with Yoshihisa Tanaka, a graphic designer at Coil, to form the unit [ Nerhol ], which exhibited at Tokyo’s Calm and Punk Gallery. Iida is always searching for new points of inspiring intersec- tion between his own practice and that of artists and domains which he actively relates to.“A thing having a sense of material and a sense of information,A thing for which the act relates a direct desire,A thing which is common and any- body has,It is a book which I choose as material.”Iida uses paper and books, common everyday objects as material for his sculpture. Iida’s approach to his chosen medium liberates the letters and text from the programmatic nature of the book, whose typical function and being revolves around its thickness and readability. In this way, he fundamentally changes our stereotypical conceptions of what books and letters are.
飯田竜太（1981-）は、自身が学生時代に習得した彫刻を表現の核に据えながら、本や印刷物といった紙を中心とする素材を選び、圧倒的かつ精緻な技術によってそれらを切り刻んで、それらがもともと有する文字情報や様々な記号そして装丁までをも織り込んだ、新たな「立体作品」を浮かび上がらせる希有な作家です。その確かな技術をともなった横断的な作品表現、建築的なアプローチをも応用した空間を駆使する展示は、そのデビュー以来着実に高い評価を得ています。
3 飯田竜太
仕様:H408×W273mm /タブロイド版新聞サイズ
カラー、24 ページ
アートディレクション:田中貴志
定価:500円＋税
