SPRING SUMMER 2015

poetry

HUMIS 2015 SPRING&SUMMER EXHIBITION

REINALDO ARENAS a Cuban poet and novelist born in 1943.
He presented his first novel at the age of twenty, but under the dictatorship of Castro administration in those days and as being a contrary sexual himself, his words were treated as antigovernment and was not permitted to publish in the country.
He handed his manuscript to a tourist from France and finally published in Europe by anonymity.
Later on, the value of his novel was rapidly acknowledged and swept many awards though as of anonymous publication nothing was there for him…no appreciation, no income, no freedom, nothing….
He was sent to prison in 1973 but succeed a prison break and emigrate to the U.S. as one of refugee in 1980.
He continue to write in New York though in 1987, he found out that he has HIV and committed suicide by taking a fatal dose of sleeping pills.
One man’s extremely gruesome life, who was isolated from freedom because of wishing for too pure freedom.
His representative piece “Before Night Falls” is an autobiography of his whole life.
His bohemian private life as homosexual, the spirit he pursue for a beautiful thing, the rebellious spirit wishing for freedom, and his solitary.
HUMIS finds a chemical reaction that rises when the clothes lay over on Reinaldo’s poet and poetic interest.
We will pass on the materialized reaction as NEWS (new creation) for today.

REYNALDO ARENAS（レイナルド・アレナス）
1943年生　キューバ出身の小説家・詩人である。
20歳に初めての小説を発表したが、当時のカストロ政権（独裁政権）の元で同性愛者であること、また反政府的な言動があるとされ国内での出版は認められず、フランスからの旅行客に原稿を渡し、匿名でのヨーロッパにて出版。
のちに彼の作品は海外にて急速に評価が高まり、賞を総なめとするが匿名の為、一切の収入、レイナルド自身の評価は何もなかった...自由も、何もかも。
73年、一度投獄されるが脱獄に成功。80年には難民の一人としてアメリカに亡命。
ニューヨークにて執筆活動を続けたが、87年にエイズであることが判り、90年に睡眠薬を多量に摂取し自殺に至った。
あまりにも純粋な自由を求め続けたがために、自由から隔離されてしまった男の凄絶な一生だった...
彼の代表作として、このような自身の一生を描いた自伝「夜になるまえに」。

レイナルドがゲイとして奔放なプライベート・ライフ。とことん美しいものを追及する精。自由を求める反骨精神。のちの孤独...

HUMISはレイナルドのこのようなpoetry（作詩、詩情）にフォーカスをあてて感じるメッセージと洋服を重ね合わせて起きる化学反応。
それらの反応を今日に伝えるNEWS（新しい創造）として具現化したものを発表します。