Takuya Sugiyama is an artist whose practice centers on painting while expanding across multiple fields, including film art direction, spatial design for stores, and acting.
In this exhibition, Takuya Sugiyama presents new works created through memories of travel and bodily sensations.
In recent years, while traveling through different places, the artist has encountered moments that unexpectedly made him stop in his tracks: the sunrise seen from a sleeper train in Laos, the ocean in Okinawa where he spent his birthday, the humid crowds of Taiwan, and the dusty air of Indonesia. Within landscapes that continue to flow past, there are moments when he feels as if he alone remains still in that place.
In such moments, it feels as though something flows in from the outside world, while at the same time something within himself quietly dissolves. As time passes, these experiences no longer remain distant memories of places, but instead become physical memories etched into the artist—memories that carry sensations of temperature, humidity, and atmosphere.
Drawing on these experiences of travel, the works in this exhibition depict once-in-a-lifetime landscapes as if they were living beings. Tracing the landscapes that continue to shape the artist as they change form over time, the exhibition presents works that express Sugiyama’s own sensations with a sense of immediacy and authenticity.
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"Untitled", 油彩キャンバス, 31.8×41cm -
"Untitled", アルキド樹脂・キャンバス, 65.2×53cm -
"Untitled", アルキド樹脂・キャンバス, 53×45.5cm -
"Untitled", 油彩キャンバス, 97×145.5cm -
"Untitled", 油彩キャンバス, 45.5×53cm -
"Untitled", 油彩キャンバス, 72.7×60.6cm -
"Untitled", 油彩キャンバス, 130.3×80.3mm
Landscapes of Memory
Takuya Sugiyama’s works are created based on the idea of not assigning meaning, value, or purpose, and as such, many of his pieces are intentionally left untitled. Rather than seeking interpretation, viewers are invited to simply engage with the work and experience the sensations that arise in the moment.
What Sugiyama creates emerges as a byproduct of his ongoing exploration of beauty, rather than from any fixed or explicit intention. Because of this, attempts to understand the work may at times feel difficult or ambiguous. However, much like gazing at a star-filled sky or a fading sunset, the experience opens up when one lets go of meaning and simply feels.
Within this approach, the present exhibition introduces a new body of work in which Sugiyama, unusually, engages with the concrete motif of “landscape.” Drawing on memories of his travels, he renders once-encountered, unrepeatable scenes as if they were imbued with life. Tracing fragments of ever-shifting scenery, the works quietly reveal the artist’s present state of being.
ARTISTS INFORMATION
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Takuya Sugiyama
Artist
JapaneseBorn in 1987 in Kanagawa, Japan.
Graduated from the Department of Environmental Design at Tama Art University in 2011.
In the same year, began an artistic career both in Japan and internationally, starting with an exhibition at AGORA GALLERY in New York.
Through the act of painting, the boundary of the self quietly dissolves, capturing moments of unity with the world. The works, where abstraction and figuration, intention and the unconscious blend together, evoke each viewer’s own sensations and memories.
Expanding beyond visual art into apparel, music, and spatial design, the artist expresses the beauty of existence from multiple perspectives.
GALLERY INFORMATION
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MH GALLERY
Tokyo, Japan / est. 2024
MH Gallery operates under the philosophy of “enriching customers’ lives through art” and “nurturing promising artists,” with a focus on contemporary art. The works we handle are created by artists with formal training in the fine arts, carefully selected for both their strong artistic vision and the high quality of their work.
We also place great emphasis on discovering and supporting young artists both in Japan and abroad, fostering an environment where the next generation of creators can grow. Our exhibition space is designed to be open and inviting, allowing visitors to quietly engage with the works and experience them on a deeper level.
Although MH Gallery is a newly established gallery founded in 2024, it carries on the tradition of the owner’s grandfather and father, who ran a gallery for over 40 years. Building on this foundation of experience and knowledge, we continue to propose new ways of engaging with contemporary art.- URL
- https://mhgallery.jp/ja/
- 住所
- TEZUKA GINZA BLDG.,5 F, Ginza6-4-4, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan
- Tel
- +81 3 6263 8736
- 開館時間
- 12:00 — 17:00
- 休館日
- Sun・Mon・Holiday
- 入館料
- 無料
- 備考
- *Exhibition contents may be subject to change.
EXHIBITION
ARTISTS
VENUE
- URL
- https://mhgallery.jp/ja/
- 住所
- TEZUKA GINZA BLDG.,5 F, Ginza6-4-4, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, 104-0061, Japan
- Tel
- +81 3 6263 8736
- 開館時間
- 12:00 — 17:00
- 休館日
- Sun・Mon・Holiday
- 入館料
- 無料
- 備考
- *Exhibition contents may be subject to change.