Aisho Miura Arts is pleased to present the solo exhibition, first in two years by Toshiaki Hicosaka, " Blind Touch".
Hicosaka born in Aichi in 1983, graduated the Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Information Design. Selected exhibition includes "MOT annual 2008 Unraveling and Revealing" at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and "shiseido art egg 2 Toshiaki Hicosaka", Shiseido Gallery in 2008, "ARKO2009 Toshiaki Hicosaka", OHARA Museum of Art i 2009, "No Man's Land - Nouvelle Me´tamorphose du Lieu" The Embassy in France and Rule-Rale-Rele" AISHO MIURA ARTS in 2010, "TRANS COMPLEX - The painting in the Age of Information Technology" Kyoto Art Center in 2011and the most recent exhibition is "New Phases in Contemporary Painting" Hyogo prefectural museum of art in 2012.

Hicosaka has been creating painting and drawings with tracing the photograph with colored pencils or pen, which he calls "somatization of image". Hicosaka said the world we are feeling today is lacking "somatization". Tracing the photograph, the experiment of unlimited accession of "vision" and "tactile sense" is to make the world controllable again, the world when it was more simple and could feel the future in our hands, and the great painters created the masterpieces with their somatizaiton.

In this exhibition, Hicosaka prepared an extremely low-res photo of his mother and structured an interface to touch and feel the image. With his eyes closed, Hicosaka traced the borderline of each pixels, with the rule he already made. The rule is to trace along the line of all the 352 pixels of the photo. It is easy enough to remember with eyes closed and based on the simple model of tracing. With these lines drawn over the photograph, it will be graded by his mother, the model, and will be exhibited in the orders of its grade.