Hiroshi Mehata: the invisible noise of memories.

“My Visual Art is the way to make music in a frequency band inaudible to the human ear”.

Hiroshi Mehata was born in Mie, Japan in 1982. He is a musician of Noise/Experimental Music and is a contemporary artist who has been creating visual artworks based on his own music in Tokyo, Japan. After music experience with several bands in Mie and Tokyo, Mehata started his solo music project around 2007. His first album “Noum Zeccyou” was released from Germany’s Mind Plug Records in 2011. In 2013, he had his first solo exhibition as a visual artist: “Mehata Hiroshi – Noum Zeccyou” at Gallery TEXU in Spain. In 2015, he started a music tour in Spain “Noum El Final de mundo” and his art was showcased at Colorida Art Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal.

Mehata represents the unconscious world that exists between dreams and reality. As a musician, he is looking for the ultimate sound. As a visual artist, he is looking for the visible form of his musical pursuit.

Mehata’s art types are mainly music, drawings, digital print works, free improvisation Shodo drawings, video art and designed music albums. In combination with his music performance, Mehata does video projection and installation works as well as conceptual art. Currently, he is developping his activities in Italy and Australia.

(by the Italian art critic Luciano Tellaroli:)

"Hiroshi Mehata is a musician representative of the Noise-Experimental Music, whose origins can be found in the futurist Luigi Rassolo on a journey that passes through the great artistic currents of the twentieth century - Fluxus in particular - where artists such as Walter De Maria, John Cage, La Monte Young, Yoko Ono and Takehisa Kosugi, by hybridizing various artistic disciplines, crossed the boundaries not only physically. Today, Mehata renews that thought. Through his artistic collaborations (Spain, U.S.A., Austria, Italy) and his visual art he transposes his musical inspiration into forms that reflect it.

Visually capturing the musical feeling by shaping sensorial impulses that refer to the idea of Noun is a concept that permeates Mehata’s work. Noun, as the artist defines it, is the invisible noise of our memories, their breath, the myriad atmosphere that concentrates and stratifies in the collective and personal unconscious. His works carry ancient Japanese wisdom (from the mural drawings that decorated the graves of Takehara with carbon black and traces of red in the 5th century, till the Ukiyo-e of the Edo age, ending with the great art of Hokusai, Utamaro and Hioshige and later re-flourisheing during the post-war period thanks to the first avant-garde movement of the far east Gutai group) but also knows the gestures of Kline and the fertility of the verbal-visual experimentation that took place throughout the 20th century, expanding the synesthetic penetration in his work.”

“The Color Cleanser," Mehata's first solo exhibition in seven years, was held at Galeri Lorong in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Thanks to the large number of visitors, the duration of the exhibition was extended. This exhibition is a collaborative project with the curator Ope'e Wardany, based an an application that converts the color values into sounds, so that the act of photographing the paintings with a smartphone becomes part of a participatory sound installation.

In addition, the same venue was reproduced on a 3d game application so that the visitors could switch to a virtual space. The sounds generated when playing the game also become a part of the sound installation.