岡本信治郎的笑的宇宙全景圖
　　笑的哲學(xué) 1950～2001作品

　　此次，岡本信治郎的展覽，包含了從500號（197 x 333.3cm）的大作品至版畫、立體裝置等90余件作品。

　　出生于1933年的岡本信治郎，自20歲起開始獨立創(chuàng)作以“速寫劇場”為主題的漫畫。但作為漫畫在當(dāng)時并未被承認(rèn)，而只能將其作為線描公布于眾。從那以后，總是在明快的線條與艷麗的平涂中孜孜不倦的追求著故事情節(jié)。與矢柳同樣，岡本先生于74歲高齡的今天，仍然不斷積極地創(chuàng)作著作品。

　　岡本信治郎，在創(chuàng)作時極力地排除糾纏在作品中的感情因素，追求著始終客觀的表現(xiàn)方式。的確，在岡本的作品中，洋溢著濃厚縝密的圖像，在創(chuàng)作出熱鬧的畫面的同時，仔細看來靜寂卻又無處不在。他的作品出色地將其發(fā)揮得淋漓盡致。此次展覽，展示了從1950年至2001年的大的時間跨度的作品。從1965年發(fā)表的“十個印第安人”至上班途中由蝗蟲的尸骸得到靈感而創(chuàng)作出的“蟲世界”等作品，都是以日常性，庶民性為主題。另外，2001年發(fā)表的“圓滾滾的櫻花”系列中，作家用獨特的幽默且冷淡的視角，將自古以來通過詩歌、繪畫與櫻對語的日本人的精神及美學(xué)意識表現(xiàn)地栩栩如生。

　　岡本信治郎的作品，不正是像廣闊無垠的宇宙空間一樣證明了想像的無限性嗎？

　　Shinjiro Okamoto's Panoramic Humour Universe
　　The Philosophy of Humour 1950-2001

　　This exhibition will feature 90 works by Shinjiro Okamoto, including prints, sculptures and a 197 by 333.3 centimeters painting.

　　Born in 1933, Shinjiro Okamoto began to draw the distinctive manga Dessin Theater (Sketch Theater) when he was 20 years old. At that time, manga was not recognized as a medium in its own right and line drawings of that kind were labeled and presented as painting. Since then, Okamoto's work has been an investigation of narrative in the clarity of line drawing and flat color planes. Like Yayanagi, now 74 years old, he continues to produce work.

　　When making his work, Okamoto seeks to expel all emotion in the image and achieve and make it an expression of objectivity. Although the images in Okamoto's works are full of lines, both thick and thin, if you look at them steadily, their quietness is takes hold.

　　This exhibition presents a broad range of his work from 1950 to 2001. In works such as 10 Indians, or World of Insects, which the artist made in response to seeing the large corpse of a grasshopper while on the way to work, one can see how the Okamoto takes a the everyday and the common people as his subject and invests them with his distinctive imagination world called OKASHIN World. Furthermore, his 2001 work Tumbling Cherry Blossoms reveals the distinctive humor and indifference with which Okamoto perceives the way in which the Japanese people have developed their sense of spirituality and aesthetics through theirongoing dialogue with cherry blossoms in song, poetry and painting ever since ancient times.

　　We hope that you will come to see this exhibition and see for yourself how Shinjiro Okamoto's works are a dynamic universe of unlimited imagination.