ARTIST

Yasuhide Moriyama

INFORMATION

Yasuhide Moriyama

- Absence Object -

October 13th (Mon) - October 25th (Sat), 2025

11:00-18:00

Atsuhiko Suematsu Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibition by Moriyama Yasuhide entitled "Absence Object."

The exhibition will feature a series of flat works painted up until 2001, starting with his earliest work, "Admiration for Alumina" from 1987, and including "Silver as the Surface of Light," "Strobe Impression," "Conflict of the Lens," "Absence Object," and "Beyond the Lens." The exhibition will provide a glimpse into the 14 years of Moriyama Yasuhide's thought and creative process regarding the fundamental question of what art and painting are, a question he has been pursuing for many years.

Yasuhide Moriyama

Painter. Born in Kitakyushu in 1936. After dropping out of Saga University, he began working as "Shudan Kumo" (Shūdan Kumo) in 1968. The group soon grew to a select group of three members, targeting not only existing art organizations and authorities, but even avant-garde artists around him, and staging performances that rejected all artistic expression. Following his arrest and trial during a demonstration, his radical movement came to an end in 1973. After 15 years of silence, he suddenly released a series of oil paintings entirely in silver in 1988. At one point, his style seemed to reject the act of painting itself, but as he produced series such as "Non-Existent Objects" and "Beyond the Lens," he gradually regained painterly elements and began producing figurative works.

Representative exhibitions include "Moriyama Yasuhide: Deconstruction and Regeneration" (Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, 2018).