HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2022 3rd — Featured Artist: 須貝 旭
須貝 旭
My works change in appearance as time passes. The silver leaf tarnishes, the oil yellows, and the cyanotype fades, so the initially silver-bright surface gradually shifts in color. For that reason, it is impossible to predict precisely how a work will look after months, years, or even decades.
Traditionally, painting has been expected not to change. Even when the actual motif decayed and vanished from sight, the image the painter rendered remained unchanged within the painting, preserved as a stand-in for memory and record.
My works, however, are images that keep changing, and the same appearance can never be seen twice.
When we stand before these works, what emerges, I believe, is not time sealed and halted within the painting, but rather a past yet to come, a future already passed, or a hazy, ungraspable “present moment.”
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[Biography]
Education
2020 Completed PhD Program, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Aichi University of the Arts
2017 Study-abroad residency, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University (Boston)
2016 Completed Master's Program, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Aichi University of the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2019 A Past Yet to Come, a Future Already Passed, a Hazy Now, Gallery Valeur, Aichi
2017 e.g.g.o 0059 Asahi Sugai, Taigado, Kyoto
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 A Chair Clad in Blue Time / A Chair Clad in Green Light, Light Gallery, Aichi
2020 Framework, HRD Fine Art, Kyoto
2017 Art Students Exhibition, SEZON ART GALLERY, Tokyo
2017 Kissing the Wall, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston
2017 The Drawn World, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston
2017 Arts in Bunkacho: Excitement, Exploding, former Ministry of Education building, Agency for Cultural Affairs,Tokyo
2016 Painting as Matter, Senhyakudo Gallery, Tokyo 2016 A Sea Filling the Field of View, Dohjidai Gallery, Kyoto 2016 Material/Technique Metamorphosis Exhibition, Aichi University of the Arts Satellite Gallery, Aichi
2014 CUBIC MUSEUM, Silpakorn University, Bangkok 2014 Japan-Thailand Art Student Exchange Exhibition, Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai
2014 Parallel hexagon, Galerie Kusabue, Aichi
Artist Residencies
2019 AGA LAB Residence Program, Amsterdam
Awards
2017 34th Research Grant, Nitto Foundation for the Promotion of Science
2016 FY2016 Scholarship Recipient, Hotta Scholarship Foundation
2016 D Art Award, Hori Science and Arts Foundation
2015 30th Holbein Scholarship, Holbein Art Materials Inc.
2015 Academic Excellence & Overseas Travel Grant, Aichi University of the Arts
[Works]
for an observation #1
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
for an observation #2
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
for an observation #3
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium, ac
oil, and grease on aluminum sheet
H250×W250(mm)
2019
Untitled (astrolabe) #3
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
oil, and grease on aluminum sheet
H250×W250(mm)
2019
Untitled (astrolabe) #4
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
oil, and grease on aluminum sheet
H250×W250(mm)
2019
Untitled (astrolabe) #9
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
oil, and grease on aluminum sheet
H250×W250(mm)
2019
Untitled (astrolabe) #10
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium,
oil, and grease on aluminum sheet
H250×W250(mm)
2019
Untitled
Cyanotype, acrylic gel medium, silver leaf, and paper on panel
H455×W333×D20(mm)
2021
須貝 旭 — View All Works ▽
https://pls-art-shop.com/collections/%E9%A0%88%E8%B2%9D
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[Installation Views]
By their very nature, these works change color over time!
The photos in the work list were taken just after completion, so you can enjoy comparing how each piece has transformed! 🧭
[Staff Comment]
Sugai's works employ the cyanotype, a photographic process that develops color through exposure to UV light. Pieces that transform over time can be enjoyed in so many ways, which I find fascinating! His grand, almost cosmic works hold a quiet, mysterious charm that sets the mind at ease ✨(Mogi)
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