Tetsuya Ishida (石田徹也, Ishida Tetsuya, June 16, 1973 – May 23, 2005) was a

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Japanese painter known for his

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portrayal of late-20th and early-21st century Japanese city life. His works typically depict hyperrealistic boys and men whose bodies are integrated into everyday appliances, industrial machinery, civic architecture, and animal forms. Ishida's paintings address the themes of isolation, consumerism, academic & professional workplace anxieties, and urban banality. Ishida quickly ascended the ranks of Japan's contemporary art scene after several of his paintings were exhibited at multiple galleries in the cultural hub of

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, and his works were featured in

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first ever auction on East Asian avant-garde art (alongside the works of a young

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) in 1998. As a member of Japan's "Lost Generation" (1991 - 2001), Ishida was a firsthand witness to the country's economic decline that began in the 1990s and extended into the 2000s. Subsequently, the angst that characterized his age group affected his perceptions of Japan's near-future where he viewed it as a bleak, urbanized atmosphere dominated by technocratic occupations that drain the life from its recent university graduate and middle-aged salarymen employees. With mental illness as a crucial attribute of his work, Ishida's conflicted views of Japan's outlook took a toll on his personal life and has been considered a contributing factor in his death after he was struck by a train in 2005.

Early life and education (1973 - 1996)

Tetsuya Ishida was born in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, the youngest of four sons. His mother, Sachiko, was a housewife and his father, Yoshihiro, was a member of Yaizu City Council. Ishida's earliest exposure to art occurred in 1981 when the

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s of Lithuanian-American

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were exhibited in Yaizu.Ueda, Yuzo. “Ishida Tetsuya.” Gallery Q. Accessed May 25, 2021. http://www.galleryq.info/news/news_ishida-gagosian_english.html. Several of Shahn's pieces portrayed the historic 1954 Lucky Dragon Incident in which Japanese fishermen aboard a tuna boat were exposed to fallout radiation from a nearby nuclear bomb test conducted by the American military. Shahn's staunchly objective, black-and-white depiction of the nuclear blast's massive mushroom cloud unleashed Ishida's desire “to become a painter like Ben Shahn”. During his formative years, Ishida participated in two creative contests that directed his lifelong artistic focus on

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. Shortly after the Ben Shahn exhibition, Ishida submitted an essay titled ''Masshirofunekun'' (''Mr. White Boat'') to a local writing contest in response to the imagery from Shahn's Lucky Dragon illustrations (1958). One excerpt from the article clearly demonstrates Ishida's opposition to the use of nuclear military technology:

“''From there, the entire body became sick and suffered. The nuclear testing caused hair to fall out and blood loss. They were in pain and could not get up to go to work. It's really a tragedy. Why would humans use H-bombs to kill each other?"''

In 1984, the

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District Legal Affairs Bureau launched a

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-themed

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competition to which Ishida submitted an entry entitled ''Yowaimonoijime wa yameyou!'' (''Stop Bullying Weaklings!'').“About Tetsuya Ishida.” People No Longer Fly - Tetsuya Ishida, world, May 12, 2021. https://www.tetsuyaishida.jp/71843/profile/?_escaped_fragment_=&lang=en. This manga piece underscores Ishida's sharp opposition to humanity's over-dependence on technology and foreshadows one of the most prevalent thematic elements throughout his career. In 1993, Ishida attended ''Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art'' at the

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, the first exhibition in Japan focused solely on

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(individuals with no formal artistic training and without any professional art world affiliations).Saito, Tamaki. “Self-Portrait or Alienation.” Essay. In ''Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other'', 73–73, 2019. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/publicaciones/catalogosPDF/tetsuya_ishida_ingles.imprenta.pdf. Most of the artists on display endured varying degrees of mental illness. While there is no clear evidence of any clinical diagnosis, many art historians speculate Ishida's fascination with these artists and his later pictorial representations of mental anguish was because he, too, was afflicted with similar conditions. Upon graduation from Yaizu Central High School in 1992, Ishida enrolled at

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where he earned a degree in Visual Communication Design in 1996. Ishida's parents strongly disapproved of his decision to become an artist and refused to offer any financial support, desiring instead that he pursue a career in academia or chemistry.

Career (1996 - 2005)

Ishida and his friend, film director Isamu Hirabayashi, formed a

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company in 1996 to collaborate on film and art fusion projects. Their partnership ended due to the Japanese

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in the mid-to-late 1990s that forced the duo to transition into

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. Ishida disliked marketing and subsequently decided to launch a solo artistic career.Hirabayashi, Isamu. “Notes by Isamu.” Essay. In Tetsuya Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other, 117 - 123, 2019. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/publicaciones/catalogosPDF/tetsuya_ishida_ingles.imprenta.pdf. Between 1996 and 2005, Ishida's distinctly surrealistic style attracted a sizable following. His participation in various solo and group exhibitions across the country garnered numerous awards, and Ishida became a dominant fixture in Japan's contemporary art scene. Tokyo's upscale Ginza shopping district is renowned for its promotion of arts consumption for the general public through exhibitions organized inside department stores. Participation in these exclusive shows was considered a significant accomplishment for emerging Japanese artists. Ginza's reputation for elaborate art shows attracted international figures in

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and

art such as

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whose major 1993 retrospective Melancholia was held at the Seibu Museum (now Sezon Museum of Modern Art) inside the Seibu Department Store. Ishida was featured in over a dozen Ginza exhibitions that expanded his audience by rendering his works more readily accessible to the general public and art critics. In October 1998, prominent Dutch art historian Maria Kaldenhoven launched the Western art world's first auction of Asian

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London. Her intent was to highlight the latest developments in “groundbreaking” contemporary

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. Although a Chinese art specialist, Kaldenhoven was captivated by the works of Ishida and

. She regarded their paintings as reflective of Japan's rising influence in the global contemporary art market. Two Ishida canvases were auctioned alongside two Murakami helium paintings. While neither of his paintings sold, Ishida's inclusion in the auction directly contributed to a surge in popularity of his work among Western and Eastern audiences. In 2007, both aforementioned Ishida paintings were posthumously sold at Christie's London for $530,000 and $270,000, respectively. As his artistic output increased, Ishida's parents eventually realized the magnitude of their son's skill and commitment to painting, and they came to embrace and appreciate his art.

Artistic style, content, and themes

From the mid-1990s until his death in 2005, Ishida produced a total of 186 paintings, many of which were not discovered until several years later.Caro. “Late Artist Tetsuya Ishida Continues to Impress with Nightmarish Paintings.” Hi-Fructose, June 18, 2015. https://hifructose.com/2015/06/18/late-artist-tetsuya-ishida-continues-to-impress-with-nightmarish-paintings/. Ishida's works convey a sense of foreboding and gloominess through their muted color palettes dominated by blacks, grays, and pale shades of blue. Boys and men often feature as the primary subjects with each assigned a specific role: high school & university-level students and white-collar

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. Their faces are almost always identical to one another, and each communicates feelings of pain, hopelessness, and/or exhaustion. The oversized, highly naturalistic bodies are enmeshed within rundown machinery, municipal structures, and consumer products (''Cargo'', 1997; ''Gripe'', 1997; ''Prisoner'', 1999). Ishida's works are frequently described as “

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” because he frequently combined the bodies of humans, animals, and insects (''Long Distance'', 1999). Art historians and curators observed similarities between the subjects’ faces and Ishida's despite his repeated denial that they were self-portraits. Rather, Ishida implied his paintings were a reflection of Japanese society. Ishida's corpus of work encompasses three major overarching themes: Japan's identity and role in today's world; Japanese social, educational, and professional structures; and the struggle of the Japanese to adapt to the rapid advancement of technology. Entrenched within these themes, motifs of isolation, anxiety, crisis of identity, skepticism, and claustrophobia heavily permeate all of Ishida's work. The violent disfigurement and mutilation of Ishida's subjects allegorize the pressures placed upon students and the labor force by Japanese society: the persistent obligation to obtain high-salary careers and forced conformity to arduous working conditions in an increasingly mechanized environment (''Recalled'', 1998).“Striking and Surreal: The Modern Art of Tetsuya Ishida.” Arts Japan 2020, January 28, 2020. https://www.artsjapan.us/blog/2020/1/28/z4bw2ro78lqiplpu8ljrelxt7zukil. During an archived

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television interview from the Kirin Art Gallery feature "The Grand Art Masters", Ishida stated that regardless of whether he enjoyed the artistic process, he felt a compulsive duty to paint "people at mercy of Japan's contradicting nature of its social systems for as long as they exist". While there is a collective understanding of the main themes behind Ishida's work, several ambiguities related to his subjects remain. One of the most discussed topics references Ishida's repeated insertion of plastic shopping bags in many of his works. He consistently refused to explain their symbolic significance, and no recent scholarship has revealed its function.

Influences

Ishida's keen observations of Japan's turbulent “ Lost Decade” (1991 - 2001) strongly informed the content and themes of his paintings. The country's economic boom of the 1980s ended with a recession in 1991 that carried over into the 21st Century. Consequently, young adults who graduated from universities within this ten-year span faced much greater difficulties securing employment; thousands of recent graduates were unemployed or underemployed. The heightened pressure and anxiety they experienced led them to become labeled by society as the “

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”. Concurrently, Japan underwent multiple social and political crises that further intensified its existing problems: the 1995 sarin gas attacks in the Tokyo Metro system by the

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; the decimation of urban infrastructure following the 1995 Kobe Earthquake; and, the 1997 Kobe Child Murders committed by a fourteen-year-old boy. As part of the “Lost Generation”, Ishida's personal life is intrinsically connected to the narratives of his paintings. His parents and school officials continually pressured him to obtain high marks on scholastic examinations and to acquire gainful employment outside the visual arts sector. Ishida's lack of interest in alternative professions coupled with societal constraints caused Ishida to struggle deeply with his

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. Beyond personal experiences, Ishida received great artistic inspiration from an eclectic range of subjects: * Japanese comics and manga, particularly the works of painter-illustrator Rokuro Taniuchi and cartoonist

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* European and American artists

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, and

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* The mise-en-scene

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of Russian filmmaker

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and Iranian filmmaker

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* The depiction of suicide in German director Jorg Buttgereit’s controversial 1990 film ''

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, and

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Personal life

Ishida shared anecdotes of his parents’ bewilderment at both the

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and the grim nature of his works. His mother was particularly upset by one of his paintings that she viewed as extremely morbid. Ishida assured her it represented his happiness captured in a moment of uninhibited freedom of expression. Ishida was romantically involved with Hiromi Toyoda, but later ended the relationship after he told her “I'm so happy being with you that I cannot paint anymore”. In the final chapter of the exhibition catalogue for the

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’s 2019

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''Ishida: Self-Portrait of Other'', friend and former artistic collaborator Isamu Hirabayashi contributed an essay that described their early time together as well as Ishida's final years and death. Following the end of their creative partnership, Hirabayashi stated they maintained limited contact, but noted that Ishida's last residence was in Sagami Ono, a suburb of

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, that enabled him easy access to the expansive Seikado art supply store. Ishida worked in a print shop and as a night watchman to provide for his excessive spending on artistic materials. Hirabayashi confirmed that Ishida's mental health appeared to rapidly decline due to a contentious relationship with the print shop manager that “made his life miserable”, and the wrongful accusation and termination of his watchman position following the accidental death of a co-worker crushed by a truck.

Death and legacy

On May 23, 2005, Ishida died after he was struck by a passing train at a level crossing in

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. Art critics, historians, and curators inferred the tragedy was an act of suicide, citing that the young men and recurring themes of mental illness, overwork, and death in his art were self-portrait depictions of Ishida himself. In 2007, Ishida's family donated 21 of his paintings to the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (静岡県立美術館, Shizuoka-kenritsu Bijutsukan) (his hometown

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is located in Shizuoka Prefecture) for permanent display.

Posthumously auctioned paintings

In 2006 at

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"Asian Contemporary Art" auction, the pre-auction sale estimate of the late Ishida's painting ''Untitled 2001'' (oil on canvas, 130.5 x 190.3 cm; 51 1/4 x 75 inches) was HK$60,000 - HK$80,000 (US$7,745-US$10,326). However, on November 26 ''Untitled 2001'' sold for HK$780,000 (US$100,681), ten times its original estimate. In 2008, ''Untitled 2001'' was again put up in Christie's "Asian Contemporary Art" auction. In less than two years, Ishida's painting dramatically appreciated three times its previous value, and generated an impressive HK$2,900,000 (US$375,885) - the high end of its 2008 estimate of HK$2,000,000-HK$3,000,000 (US$259,231-US$388,847).

Exhibitions

Select solo exhibitions 1996: ''Tadayou Hito'' - Guardian Garden Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 1999: ''Ishida Tetsuya'' - Gallery Q&QS, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2003: ''Tetsuya Ishida'' - Gallery Iseyoshi, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan Select group exhibitions 1995: ''6th Hitotsubu Exhibition'' - Tokyo, Japan 1997: ''JACA Japan Visual Arts Exhibition'' 1998: Christie's “Asia Avant Garde” Exhibition - London, United Kingdom 1998: ''7th Liquitex Exhibition'' 1999: ''Nippon International Contemporary Art Festival'' - Tokyo, Japan 2001: ''VOCA Exhibition'' - Tokyo, Japan 2011: ''OUR MAGIC HOUR: How Much of the World Can We Know?'' - Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan 2015: ''Japan Pavilion'' -

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, Venice, Italy 2020: ''Taipei Dangdai'' - Taipei, Taiwan 2021: ''Hong Kong Exchange'' -

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, Hong Kong, China Retrospective 2006: ''Fear - The Hidden Sign'' - Gallery Iseyoshi, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2006: ''Drifter'' - Guardian Garden Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2006: ''Solo Retrospective'' - Gallery Q, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan 2007: ''A Little Exhibition'' - CB Collection Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan 2007: ''The Person Who Was Not Able to Fly'' - Sunpu Museum, Shizuoka, Japan 2008: ''Tetsuya Ishida - Our Self Portraits'' - Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2013: ''Tetsuya Ishida'' - Gagosian, Hong Kong, China 2013: ''Note of Tetsuya Ishida'' - Ashikaga Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan 2014: ''Notes, Evidence of Dreams'' - Tonami Art Museum, Tonami, Japan 2014: ''Tetsuya Ishida: Saving the World with a Brushstroke'' - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California 2019: ''Tetsuya Ishida - Self-Portrait of Other'' -

, Madrid, Spain 2019: ''Tetsuya Ishida - Self-Portrait of Other'' - Wrightwood 659, Chicago, Illinois 2020: ''Tetsuya Ishida'' - Gagosian, New York, New York

Awards and recognitions

* 1995: Grand Prize in Graphic Arts at 6th Hitotsubu Exhibition * 1995: Mainichi Design Award * 1996: Encouragement Prize at Mainichi Design Award * 1997: Grand Prize JACA Japan Visual Arts Exhibition * 1998: Encouragement Prize at Kirin Contemporary Awards * 2001: Encouragement Prize at VOCA Exhibition * 2009: Purple Japanese Medal of Honor (Awarded posthumously to Ishida's parents)

Notable works

Quotations of non-English resources

#"Tatsuya Ishida's Complete Works" to be published 5 years after his death in a train accident at a level crossing." :「２００５年５月２３日に踏切事故のため３１歳で亡くなった画家石田徹也の没後５年に合わせ、「石田徹也全作品集」が出版される。」.

References

External links

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Selected works

Selected works
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