日本人画家、石田徹也の作品集。2023年9月から10月にかけてニューヨークのギャラリー「ガゴシアン（Gagosian）」で開催された展覧会に伴い刊行された。本展は作者の生誕50周年を記念するものであり、絵画作品80点が展覧された。

本展のキュレーションを担当したセシリア・アレマーニ（Cecilia Alemani）によるエッセイ、ウィーンの「レオポルド美術館（Leopold Museum）の共同設立者でありアートコレクターのディートハルト・レオポルド（Diethard Leopold）によるエッセイ、「ガゴシアン・ギャラリー」の創設者であるラリー・ガゴシアン（Larry Gagosian）の序文、作者の兄弟である石田道明によるイントロダクション、安部公房の短編小説『壁』の3部作のうちの1つ『赤い繭』（1950年）を収録する。

作者は2005年に31歳の若さで踏切事故によってこの世を去っており、わずか10年の間にその創作活動は凝縮されている。本展の開催は、「ガゴシアン」が「石田徹也エステート」の世界的な代理権取得を発表したニュースに続くものであり、同エステートおよび著名な個人コレクション、「静岡県立美術館」が本展に作品を貸与している。

Published in conjunction with the landmark exhibition, Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, at Gagosian New York, this fully illustrated catalog documents more than eighty paintings by the late Tetsuya Ishida and includes new essays by Cecilia Alemani and Diethard Leopold.

Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self accompanies the 2023 survey exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, of more than eighty paintings by the late Japanese artist on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his birth. With works from the Ishida Estate, notable private collections, and the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka City, Japan, Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self represents the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to have been staged outside Japan, and his first ever in New York.  

Over the course of just ten years, Ishida produced a striking body of work centered on the theme of human alienation. He emerged as an artist during Japan’s “lost decade,” a recession that lasted through the 1990s, and his paintings capture the feelings of hopelessness, claustrophobia, and disconnection that characterized Japanese society during this time of rapid technological advancement. Before his untimely death in 2005, Ishida conjured allegories of the challenges to national life in paintings and graphic works charged with a Kafkaesque absurdity.

The catalog contains lavish plate photography, including details, of the exhibited paintings. An extensive essay by Alemani provides essential historical and interpretive context for the work, while an essay by Diethard Leopold examines Ishida’s frequent use of his own face in his paintings. The catalog also features a foreword by Larry Gagosian; an introduction by Michiaki Ishida, the artist’s brother; and a reprint of the short story “The Red Cocoon” (1950) by Kōbō Abe.

Ishida was born in the city of Yaizu, in Shizuoka Prefecture, in 1973, and died in Tokyo in 2005. Gagosian presented the first exhibition of Ishida’s work outside Japan, in Hong Kong in 2013.