HIROSHI SUGITO
b. 1970, JapanA proponent of the Tokyo-Pop movement, Hiroshi Sugito’s paintings are characterized by their translucent brushworks and suggestive iconography. Unlike his contemporaries whose works typify the ‘Super Flat’ aesthetic, Sugito’s paintings do not draw solely from popular imagery or mass culture. Instead his compositions blur the line between fantasy and memory, an introspective quality that renders his subject indistinct. Planes, blossoms and birds hover in space, the luminous effect of the canvas acheived by Sugito’s unusual technique. Applying thin layers of acrylic paint and dry pigment, the artist suspends his subject in a realm devoid of chronological narrative or meaning.
The theme of curtains and windows which reappear in Sugito’s paintings are a reference to Western painting tradition, seeming to abstract the work into a geometric grid and creating a tension between illusionary space and surface.
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