Hicosaka and Sugiyama, two artists who have unique styles respectively in abstract paintings. While searching and establishing personal style in parallel, indeed, they have similarity in the regularity and correlation of how they represent with lines and colors. The similarity forms this exhibition and entitles it with "Dead", the keyword that connects the two artists' representations.

About "Dead Paintings"

"Lively" is an adjective broadly used to describe expressions and representations, and especially is viewed as a compliment when reviewing a piece of art works. In contrast with "lively", there are words such as "withered", "collapsed", "lost", closely related to death. As we know, life and death are opposite, but in some way, being conscious of living means that the awareness of dying in the end is unavoidable.

In our society, there are negative meanings imposed on death and tabooed the "life to death" process. However, if with another point of view, the fact is that change will no longer exist after the goal of death in a scientific perspective. That is to say, death equals or symbolizes eternity; what is originally dead possesses perpetuity from the very first, and death primarily involves not only the past, the present, moreover the future.

The concept above constructs this exhibition, and exhibiting artists are boldly selected from other galleries because objectivity with calmness is required while approaching the theme related to "death".

Hicosaka senses the process of painting as a system. He paints scientific theories such as "complex system" by following his own rules. Sugiyama intertwines colors and shapes, cuts off here and there spatial relationships, and ultimately presents the pure factors on picture planes. Both of the two artists bring correlation and regularity up to the superficial, and bury subjects and messages down to the deep. As if from another world, unlike the world we are live, their arts display a precisely dead condition, conceiving eternity from the very beginning.