平田安弘 Yasuhiro Hirata

平田安弘

1984年東大阪市生まれ、現在八尾市在住。中学2年生の頃からアトリエひこ(大阪市平野区) に通い、現在は週1回のペースで制作を行う。
横向きの人物、建設業の父親の仕事場にある道具(コーキングガン、釘、ペンキ缶等)を繰り返し描いてきた。
筒のオブジェは、養護学校の卒業や祖母の死など、環境の変化が続いた2004年頃に、父親が偶々(たまたま)もらってきた紙管がきっかけで始まった。
不安定な曲面に一定の間隔で無数の釘を打ち、その回りにぐるぐると丸を描く。彼によると、大好物の「とうもろこし」をつくっているそうだ。
この「とうもろこし」づくりに10年ほど熱中し、その後は11~2本打つのがゆるやかに続いていが、2020年コロナ禍で緊急事態宣言が出た頃から再燃した。

Yasuhiro Hirata

Resident of Yao City, Yasuhiro Hirata (born 1984 in Higashi Osaka) has been attending Atelier Hiko in Hirano-ku, Osaka City since he was a second-year Junior High School student. He currently visits once a week to make works.
Hirata used to repeatedly paint figures side on and tools from the construction site where his father worked (including caulking guns, nails and paint cans).
He started creating his cylinder pieces when his father happened to bring a cardboard tube home in 2004, a time of turbulent changes such as graduating from special school and his grandmother’s passing. Their unstable curved surfaces have countless nails driven in at fixed intervals, with circles painted around them. According to Hirata, he feels like he’s making his favourite food, corn on the cob. He continued to be engrossed in these corn-on-the-cob works for almost 10 years before slowing to a pace of a single nail or two each day, but the state of emergency stay-at-home declaration announced during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 revived his drive to create.

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