Motohiro Tomii's solo exhibition "Borrowing Lines" is currently being held at void+, a gallery in Minami-Aoyama, Tokyo.

Motohiro Tomii: Portrait for Line (Kondo Keisuke), 2018, acrylic panel, drawing by Kondo Keisuke
Installation view: "Tabletop Paintings: Spring," MA2 Gallery, 2018. Photo by Yanagiba Dai ©Motohiro Tomii, Courtesy of Yumiko Chiba Associates

Motohiro Tomii continues to explore new possibilities in sculpture. Tomii has created works using everyday objects such as sticky notes, colored pencils, sponges, trash cans, stepladders, thumbtacks, and plastic containers, eliminating their conventional uses and meanings and elevating them into something entirely different by focusing on their new appeal and presence. He has presented a variety of sculptural forms. In one instance, he exhibited a work using only the instructions he always leaves behind after completing it, inviting viewers to follow the instructions and go through the process of creating a sculpture. Tomii explores whether a casual act or attitude toward an object can constitute a work of art in itself, and what elements are necessary for it to become a work of art. Tomii's new exhibition, "Borrowing Lines," features, as the title suggests, works in which he borrows "lines" from the works of others. The borrowed work is a tac:tac coat and the lines of its pattern. Inside the exhibition are clothes created from patterns by designer Takaaki Shimase, and acrylic sculptures created based on the lines of those patterns. The potential of sculpture is manifested in the audience trying on the clothes, the mirror reflecting them, the reflected background, and all of these things, events, places, and times.