Hiroshi Sugito is a young Japanese artist part of the Tokyo-Pop movement which includes heavyweights Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara. These works are from his 2014 show at Marc Foxx.
“Sugito’s imagery contributes to (the) contemporary Japanese aesthetic, including elements of kawaii. Yet while artists such as Murakami and Nara have explored an extreme version of “cute” that borders on being alarming, sexual, and dangerous, Sugito uses “cute” as a springboard to create pictures that subtly oscillate between strange and beautiful, familiar and estranged… Describing his process, Sugito has said, “I start moving my brush like walking into the woods, away from everything, and I want words and meanings to lose their power and just fade away.” – Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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