past / 2015
Yuta Hayakawa / Daisuke Ishii / Motomasa Suzuki / Keizo Tawa "sculptures"
早川祐太/石井太介/鈴木素真/多和圭三
November 28 - December 26, 2015
past / 2015
Yuta Hayakawa / Daisuke Ishii / Motomasa Suzuki / Keizo Tawa "sculptures"
早川祐太/石井太介/鈴木素真/多和圭三
November 28 - December 26, 2015
past / 2015
Yuta Hayakawa / Daisuke Ishii / Motomasa Suzuki / Keizo Tawa "sculptures"
早川祐太/石井太介/鈴木素真/多和圭三
November 28 - December 26, 2015
Paris Internationale 2019
16 Rue Alfred de Vigny
75008 Paris
October 16 (wed) - 20 (sun), 2019
Preview: October 15, 2019
Paris Internationale 2019
16 Rue Alfred de Vigny
75008 Paris
October 16 (wed) - 20 (sun), 2019
Preview: October 15, 2019
CURRENT
Gallery Show
常設展
June 20 (Thu) - July 11 (sun), 2019
CURRENT
Gallery Show
常設展
June 20 (Thu) - July 11 (sun), 2019
CURRENT
Gallery Show
常設展
June 20 (Thu) - July 11 (sun), 2019
(English follows Japanese)
このたびHAGIWARA PROJECTSでは、2026年9月12日（土）より、ザック・プレコップによる個展「Noise」を開催いたします。本展は、当ギャラリーにおける同作家7年ぶりの個展となります。
ザック・プレコップ（Zak Prekop、1979年シカゴ生まれ）は、ニューヨーク州を拠点に活動するアーティストです。2008年にシカゴ美術館附属美術大学（School of the Art Institute of Chicago）でMFAを取得したほか、ドイツ・フランクフルトのシュテーデルシューレでも学びました。
プレコップの絵画は、筆やパレットナイフを用いて素早く描くことから始まります。そこに、グラシン紙を破って作ったステンシル（型紙）を置き、その輪郭をなぞるように線を描きます。さらに型紙の位置を少しずつずらしながら同じ工程を繰り返すことで、複数の形や構図が重なり合い、幾何学的でどこを起点として見るべきか定まらない画面が生まれていきます。
完成した作品は、一見するとデジタルによって生成されたイメージを思わせます。しかし、その画面を形づくっているのは、紙を破り、型紙を置き、位置をずらし、輪郭をなぞるという、極めてアナログな手作業の積み重ねです。反復される工程のなかで形や色が重なり、画面は次第に複雑な構造を帯びていきます。そのため鑑賞者の視線は、一つの場所に留まることなく画面の中を行き来し、作品を一度に把握するのではなく、時間をかけて読み取っていくような体験へと導かれます。
プレコップは、こうした制作のプロセスを音楽に近いものとして捉えています。ノイズ、ミニマル・ミュージック、テクノ、ジャズなど幅広い音楽に親しむ彼にとって、音楽とは、始まりから終わりへと直線的に進むものではなく、複数の音やレイヤーが重なり合い、静と動が共存するものです。絵画においても、プレコップは形や色、線、レイヤーを重ねながら、それぞれの要素が互いに作用する関係を組み立てていきます。それは、コンポーザーがさまざまな音を組み合わせてひとつの楽曲を作り上げる行為にも似ています。彼にとって絵画は、単に静止したイメージを見るものではなく、画面に重ねられた反復、重なり、リズム、そして視覚的なノイズが複雑に響き合う「動きとしてのイメージ」を感じ取りながら、鑑賞者自身がその構造を辿っていく体験なのです。
作家略歴：ザック・プレコップ Zak Prekop 1979 年生まれ、ニューヨーク州在住。2008 年 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 修了。近年の個展に The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2025, コネティカット)、Painting What I Did, Maxwell Graham Gallery (2024, ニューヨーク)、Basho Revelations, Galería Marta Cervera (2022, マドリッド)、Shane Campbell Gallery (2019, シカゴ)、HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2019, 東京)など。主なグループ展にBasic Matters: Substance in Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art (2023, オハイオ)、File Under Freedom, Bergen Kunsthall (2022, ノルウェー)、New Space / New Works, HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2021, 東京)、Maximum Minimum in Unum, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (2016, ピッツバーグ)、Painter, Painter - curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, Walker Art Center (2013, ミネアポリス)など。
HAGIWARA PROJECTS is pleased to present Noise, a solo exhibition by Zak Prekop, opening on Saturday, September 12, 2026. The exhibition marks Prekop’s first solo presentation at the gallery in seven years.
Zak Prekop (b. 1979, Chicago) is an artist based in New York State. He received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and also studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.
Prekop’s paintings begin with quick, spontaneous marks made with brushes and palette knives. He then places stencils made from torn sheets of glassine paper onto the painted surface and traces their contours with lines. By gradually shifting the position of the stencils and repeating this process, multiple forms and compositions accumulate and overlap, resulting in intricate geometric paintings in which there is no fixed point from which the image can be read.
At first glance, Prekop’s finished paintings may suggest digitally generated imagery. Yet their complex surfaces are created through a distinctly physical and repetitive process: tearing paper, placing the stencils, shifting their position, and tracing their contours by hand. Through this repeated process, forms and colors accumulate, overlap, and interact, gradually giving the paintings a dense and complex visual structure. This layering also shapes the way the paintings are experienced. The image cannot be taken in all at once; instead, it unfolds gradually as the viewer moves between its various forms, lines, and layers.
With a deep interest in a wide range of music, from noise and minimal music to techno and jazz, Prekop approaches music not as something that moves linearly from start to finish, but as a space where multiple sounds and layers overlap, and where stillness and motion coexist. Similarly in his painting, Prekop builds relationships where shapes, colors, lines, and layers interact with one another as he accumulates them on the canvas. This closely mirrors the act of a composer assembling various sounds to create a single piece of music. For him, a painting is not merely a static image to be looked at; it is an experience where viewers trace the structure for themselves, sensing an "image as movement" in which repetition, layering, rhythm, and visual noise harmoniously reverberate.
Zak Prekop: Born in 1979, Lives and works in New York State. In 2008 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo shows include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (2025, Connecticut), Painting What I Did, Maxwell Graham Gallery (2024, New York), Basho Revelations, Galería Marta Cervera (2022, Madrid), Shane Campbell Gallery (2019, Chicago), HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2019, Tokyo)など。Selected group shows include Basic Matters: Substance in Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art (2023, Ohio), File Under Freedom, Bergen Kunsthall (2022, Norway), New Space / New Works, HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2021, Tokyo), Maximum Minimum in Unum, Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University (2016, Pittsburg), Painter, Painter - curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, Walker Art Center (2013, Minneapolis).