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Akihiko SugiuraTwo2018
2018
$13,125
£10,058.72
€11,560.74
CA$18,434.71
A$20,631.84
CHF 10,800.03
MX$250,639.44
NOK 137,132.94
SEK 129,408.35
DKK 86,263.43
About the Item
AKIHIKO SUGIURA is a Japanese painter from Hyogo, Japan whose artistic style mixes purely physical non-representational art with a base of traditional representational painting. A common theme that emerges from Sugiura’s body of work is that all types of extremities coexist, coming and going therein. As a finalist in the 13th edition of the Arte Laguna Prize 2018.19, for the first time in the United States, Akihiko Sugiura will debut a collection of his artworks for a solo exhibition at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.
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My body of work is an experiment in rejecting conventional views of painting, reconsidering the very act of viewing, and reassessing traditional oil painting.
I want to draw viewers into the imagination of these paintings by depicting characters that represent various modern-day questions such as: Are we alive or dead? What is gender? Are humans something else? Real or virtual? At the same time, I also want to push viewers back into reality through the inclusion of blank spaces and the arrangement of actual materials in various places around the canvas.
In my work, there is also a feeling of being beckoned to return to a world of imagination. Everything can be interpreted in many ways depending on the extent of contact. Such a view is connected to and inspired by the philosophical and Zen Buddhist perception of the world, which I feel is an important way of thinking in people’s lives.
Ultimately, while my artwork certainly takes the form of painting, it is not painting in the traditional sense. It represents something, yet does not represent anything. There is meaning, and yet it is meaningless. It is retinal artwork, yet it is simultaneously ideological art. While there are correct interpretations of this artwork, at the same time, there are no incorrect interpretations.
Artwork takes on meaning when viewed by people.
Even with minimalism, which goes to great lengths to eliminate meaning, or Mono-ha, where the formation process is sought from a base of zero meaning, art cannot escape the unnecessary gaze or intelligence of those people who are appreciating it. That is the sadness of humans.
- Creator:Akihiko Sugiura (1979)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 63.7 in (161.8 cm)Width: 51.3 in (130.31 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New Orleans, LA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU10524335002
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