Hiroyuki Masuyama
dal 10/6/2015 al 24/7/2015
Segnalato da
10/6/2015
Hiroyuki Masuyama
Galerie Clairefontaine - Espace 2, Luxembourg
From London to Venice. The artist created a body of work around the idea of airtravel and its temporalities. With several hundred photographs, he composes a monumental montage of a journey.
The Japanese artist Hiroyuki Masuyama will show a brand new work from his “Flight” series called “London-Venice” with a 8.1
meters long artwork. Masuyama created a body of work around the idea of airtravel and its temporalities. With several hundred
photographs, he composes a single, monumental montage of a journey. Confronting this new piece with his recent lightboxes
from the series “Joseph Mallord William Turner”, the show will feature in a wonderful contemporary display, a parallel between
Masuyama’s journey nowadays, versus Turner’s 19th century voyage.
Masuyama engages in an exploration of passages across time, space and art history. These photomontages are made after
the 19th Century painter J.M.W. Turner (British, 1775-1851), who travelled widely across Europe and documented his journeys
in paintings. Returning to the sites that Turner captured over 160 years ago, before the invention of the camera, Masuyama
takes several hundred photographs. With these images, he composes reproductions of the original paintings out of hundreds of
images, building the painterly atmosphere with the means of photography. The finished photomontage is mounted as a lightbox,
illuminating his composite image from within.
The artist created a number of lightboxes of Luxembourg, by photographing the same views that William Turner painted. These
brand new works will be exhibited to the public for the first time ever.
Opening: Thursday, June 11 th , 6-8 p.m., in the presence of the artist
Galerie Clairefontaine - Espace 2
21 rue du St-Esprit, L-1475 Luxembourg
Tue-Fri: 10 a.m.-6.30 p.m., Sat: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.