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Visible-Invisible / Look-Overlook
by Frantic Gallery
Location: Frantic Gallery
Artist(s): Katsuya SUGIMOTO
Date: 27 Sep - 29 Sep 2013

Frantic Gallery presents the first solo show of young Japanese painter Katsuya Sugimoto Visible – Invisible / Look – Overlook” and offer to think together about the new qualities of realistic images that rather than copy the reality in reverse confuse the onlooker and even capable of hiding the visible.

Katsuya Sugimoto combines his fantasy world filled with pocket-size toys and tender humor with a matured technique: the synthesis that gives his pieces an uncanny feeling. Sugimoto collected hundreds of colorful plastic toy-figures and miniature car-models, which he brings into 2-dimentional art of painting while preserving and stressing their “sweet tactility”, “pretty volume” and “lovable expressiveness”.

Sugimoto works in hyperrealistic technique but develops its main features. First, he concentrates on the reflections and play of light, but in his case it is a “hyperreal glow” on fruits or sweets, which stretches visual effect to anatomical dimension, provoking feeling of lusciousness both in visual and physiological senses, bringing the distortions, blur and dazzling spots in his works. Second, he puts all his strength on 3-dimentional representations, but in the same time develops interplay of 2-dimentional planes. Hinting on traditional Japanese paintings, clouds or blots in Sugimoto’s works contra-play with illusion of depth and shades. This approach allows Sugimoto to synthesize on one canvas flatness and dynamism, realistic objectiveness and air of imagination. Finally, if hyperrepresentational approach offers clearly graspable and perfectly seen image, in case of Sugimoto the opposite side of visuality, namely “the unseen”, indistinctive or confusing aspects of image gain it’s strength offering “blocked vision” parallel to “transparent imaginary”.

Frantic Gallery would like to use the first solo show of Sugimoto to expose the background of his creation. The gallery will show several previous works starting with year 2008 so the visitors can see the development of Sugimoto’s personal artistic story itself together with the variations of the stories depicted in his paintings. Besides the 15 paintings Frantic Gallery also would like to present installations dedicated to the toy-collection of the artist as well as a model of his studio which reveals multiple layers of media Sugimoto’s image goes through to reach the final representation on canvas. Real and illusive, seen and unseen, given to vision and blocked – these are the key points of the visual experience Frantic Gallery would like to offer to you during the show while stressing Sugimoto’s distinctive approach to representation of reality which recreates both “Lost” and “Found” parts in the act of perception.

Image: © Katsuya Sugimoto, Frantic Gallery

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