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Artist Statement Goro Murayama (JP):
My works involves expressing self-organizing processes and patterns through painting and drawing. These ?self-organizing paintings? are not devices that emulate and copy nature, but
rather create a nature within them. The central theme here is emergence, which in biology refers to the manifestation of phenomena in systems. Working through repeated and localized acts of production without a preconceived blueprint, the image of the whole appears as something that could not be foreseen from its parts. The results are living paintings that continue to grow and, at times, entirely metamorphose based on autonomous production systems that are akin to trees or seashell patterns, and which are peculiar to myself.
In order to conceive of emergence within the creative act, I rely on the theoretical references of self-organization, propounded since the 1960s, chaos theory, which makes use of computer
simulations, and autopoiesis, which deals with the emergence and maintenance of cellular life. Composing a production system with the aid of such theories, allows for an expression
akin to the process of life attaining increasing richness, which goes beyond the mere reiteration or cold geometry that academic painting tends to lapse into. The concept of emergence is equipped with a formal insight of a higher order, which allows painting to break free from the confinement of Formalism to achieve authentically post-modern painting.
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