EXHIBITIONS
SHIGEO TOYA
Shigeo Toya is one of Japan’s leading sculptors. Emerging after the deconstruction of the Minimalist and Mono-ha movements in the 1960s and ’70s, he has dedicated his career to reconstituting sculpture as a practice that is grounded in human existence. His work draws equally upon the achievements of both the Western canon, spanning from cave paintings to Greek sculpture and Alberto Giacometti, and the Japanese, spanning from Enku to the early 20th-century sculptor Heihachi Hashimoto. Toya’s examination of these different lineages led him to arrive at the unique sculptural philosophy that “sculpture is an accumulation of gazes.” His work has been shown extensively in major international exhibitions, including in the Japan Pavilion at the 43rd Venice Biennale of 1988, the 1st Asia Pacific Triennial of 1993, and the 3rd Gwangju Biennale of 2000, where he received the Asia Prize. He was recently the subject of a retrospective that toured from the Nagano Prefectural Art Museum to the Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, in 2022–23. This exhibition at ShugoArts is his first with the gallery in more than three years.
SHUGOARTS
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- Roppongi
Shugo Satani worked at his father Kazuhiko’s Satani Gallery before starting ShugoArts in 2000. The gallery moved to Roppongi in 2016 and opened a viewing space in Tennozu Isle in 2021. ShugoArts aims to create new art historical values through its exhibition program, prioritizing above all the free expression of artists. The gallery collaborates with such artists as Masaya Chiba, Yukio Fujimoto, Leiko Ikemura, Masato Kobayashi, Aki Kondo, Lee Kit, Naofumi Maruyama, Rina Matsudaira, Anju Michele, Ritsue Mishima, Yasumasa Morimura, Yuji Ono, Clara Spilliaert, Yoriko Takabatake, Shigeo Toya, Atsushi Yamamoto, and Tomoko Yoneda.
