Minh họa thập kỷ mất mát của Nhật Bản

triển lãm 200 bức ảnh của họa sĩ tetsuya ishida (sinh năm 1973, làm bảo vệ ban đêm ở nhà máy đóng gói snack, chết vì bị tàu đâm năm 31 tuổi), về thập kỷ mất mát của nhật bản, như lời cảnh báo từ 20 năm trước về chủ nghĩa tiêu thụ điên cuồng; sự cô đơn, bị xa lánh; nghiện công nghệ và tự động hóa...
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Observers (người quan sát) of the world economy call the 1990s Japan’s Lost Decade (thập kỉ), when the bubble (bong bóng) of the 1980s burst (vỡ tung) and unemployment and bankruptcies (phá sản) rose. As is often the case, adolescents (thanh thiếu niên) and young adults were especially affected. It was during this time that the artist Tetsuya Ishida began channeling his era’s isolation (sự cô lập) and anxiety (nỗi lo lắng) into nightmarish (ác mộng) visions.

Working intermittent (gián đoạn) jobs, he received little recognition (công nhận) during his lifetime — he died at age 31 after being struck by a train — and his works have not been easily seen by Western audiences (khán giả). The Gagosian Gallery in New York City yesterday opened the most comprehensive U.S. showing to date of Ishida’s paintings (bức vẽ).

With their recurring themes of loneliness and isolation, rabid consumerism (chủ nghĩa tiêu dùng điên cuồng) and addiction to technology and automation, his “self-portraits of other people” have aged remarkably well. It’s hard not to see Ishida’s work as a warning from 20 years in the past, a prophecy (lời tiên tri) from an artist who saw where the world was headed with startling clarity (trong trẻo).

Between 1995 and 2005, while working intermittent jobs — in a factory that made packaging for snacks, as a night security guard (nhân viên bảo vệ ban đêm)— he made about 200 paintings.

...It was during the Lost Decade that a Japanese psychiatrist (bác sĩ tâm lý) coined the term “hikikomori” to describe the severe and prolonged social withdrawal (xa lánh xã hội) that was afflicting a small percentage of the population, who refused to leave their bedrooms, even for work or school, and had begun replacing face-to-face interaction with communication via what were then the novel advancements of personal computers, cellphones and the World Wide Web.

source: nytimes,

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