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Artwork Description

To capture a man and a woman, in love, together, in raw and simple harmony, where shadows combine as one. Keizo Sugitani’s (b. 1959 –) interlocking forms tell the tale of life itself, the story of mankind falling in love, embracing, the miracle that is life, the wonder that is two bodies meeting together in both time and space. Totemic, talismanic, primitive in their unadorned patina yet brimming with the energy of both Eros and Thanatos, Sugitani’s ceramic sculptures are odes to the primordial beauty of mankind, our life history told as the unification of you and me, of simple bodies conjoining together as one. Imbued within are the complexities behind love, sadness, happiness and loneliness, Sugitani’s works are minimal poems in abstraction that call to mind the primeval inclinations of man, with rustic green and copper hues emerging from the depths of his greyish black glaze, works elegantly hand-built in innocent grandeur. Calling to mind the abstractions of Eduardo Chillida, there is a primal rawness to Sugitani’s works that limn the Primitivism of the Nabi, the austere simplicity of Brutalist architecture, and even Russian constructivism. Sugitani’s latest body of works, collectively entitled Shadow Symphony, are a culmination of his aesthetic and technical experiments that began with The Promise, matured greatly with Shadows Crossing, and reached new heights with umbra vitae. Their silhouettes are more ambitious, their glazing sublime, and incredibly, each work look completely different from each and every angle.