子供の頃から飛行機の絵を描いていたリチャード・アンセルは９2年からMACによるCGを使って飛行機の五面展開図を描き始めました。それは飛行機の精緻な設計図でありながら絵画作品としても優れたものとして高い評価を受けて来ました。今回は「バタフライ」と彼が命名した第一次世界大戦に使用された初期の戦闘機を中心に、戦争という厳しい状況にあってなお息づいた「芸術」としての美しさを見ていただきます。個展には1/72スケールの精微な紙飛行機も展示します。

Richard Ansell used to draw pictures of airplanes in his childhood. >From 1992, he began to produce 5-section drawings of the aircrafts, using the computer graphic software of the Mackintosh computer. Although those computer graphic designs were very accurate technical drawings, they were reviewed with high esteem as art works. For this show, he presented a series of fighter aircraft used in World War One and particularly focused on the aircraft, which he named as ?gButterfly?h. The 1/72-scaled model of an aircraft, made of paper will be displayed in the gallery.

?hAbout the Artist
Richard Ansell was born just North of London in 1948.
He studied a Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship with the British Aircraft Corporation.Later he studied Fine Art at St.Albans School of Art, and at the Royal West of England Academy of Art . BA (hons) Fine Art. In 1982 he came to Japan as an English Teacher.Since 1993 he has been generating Art Prints using a Macintosh Computer.He has had several one man exhibitions of his aircraft prints in the Tokyo area.His drawings are now regularly used in the Cross and Cockade International Journal published by The First World War Aviation Historical Society in the UK.He lives with his wife Misato and family in Seisekisakuragaoka in Tama-shi,Tokyo.?h

作家URL
http://www.thebutterfliesofworldwarone.com