Takashi Suzuki: Color And
Gallery Shilla, Seoul
March 12 - April 16, 2022
The artist Takashi Suzuki, who majored in sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts and the same graduate school, ironically works on a two-dimensional plane instead of a three-dimensional space. However, if you take an in-depth look at Takashi Suzuki's work, you can notice that the nature of the sculpture is also revealed even in the two-dimensional flat work.
He mainly uses intense red and blue primary colors to fill the entire canvas or compose a screen composed of simple lines. In this way of working, an attitude that values color the most can be seen, but in addition, the characteristics of sculpture can be found in the way the screen is formed. In other words, it has the purest colors and pure screen characteristics, which are characteristics of color-field painting, but also has consistency, which is a characteristic of sculpture. These elements are revealed in Takashi Suzuki's work, and the work created by crossing two lines creates an optical illusion that spatiality exists.
In particular, the works that use lines on the screen seem to have been influenced by his experience of working with objects using cylinders in the early days of his artistic activities. From the beginning of his artist career to the 1990s, Takashi Suzuki has been working with geometric shapes of hexagonal poles and forged iron round bars. The material and place of this sculptural work have been converted to pigment and canvas, but the artist has been constantly contemplating the relationship between sculpture and painting
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The works that the artist has been working on since 2007, with a clear contrast between red and blue monochrome, give another sense of space to the exhibition hall and lead to experience of the expanded space. In addition, Takashi Suzuki's works suggest the possibility of sculpture on a flat canvas and express the characteristics of both genres. Through this exhibition, you can meet the works of Takashi Suzuki, who is contemplating his own artistic philosophy on a different horizon, away from the traditional sculptural method.
GALLERY SHILLA
200-29,Daebong-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul
