Hiroyuki Masuyama’s (Tsukuba, 1968) variously sized light-boxes are not simply photographic reproductions of the paintings and watercolours of William Turner. They are instead a conceptual operation on the work of this great English artist. Their subject is the works undertaken by Turner during his first journey from London to Venice. Masuyama has followed each stage of this journey and made visual notes, but in a different medium: in the place of sketches he has used photography. But just like Turner, who brought these graphic notes and reminders back to England in order to re-elaborate them in his studio, so too Masuyama has brought the images he captured back to his studio in Düsseldorf and submitted them to a complex operation of montage. The images of his journey and those of the paintings by Turner have thus become in the luminous work of this forty-something Japanese artist a harmoniousunicum in which the limits of space-time have been overcome.
Hiroyuki Masuyama
artist
exhibitions
Biography
Hiroyuki Masuyama (Tsukuba, 1968).
He lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
solo exhibitions
2016
Hiroyuki Masuyama. Fotografie, Galerie Rothamel Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Lichtfeld Fotografien von Hiroyuki Masuyama, Lyonel Feininger Galerie, Quedinburg, Germany
Zeitreise ohne Zeitläufte.Hiroyuki Masuyama auf der Reise mit Turner und Koekkoek, Koekkoek-Haus Museum, Kleve, Germany
Flowers. Hiroyuki Masuyama, Kunstverein Münsterland Coesfeld, Germany
2015
From London to Venice. Hiroyuki Masuyama, Clairefontaine Gallery, Luxembourg
Raum. Zeit. Reise. Hiroyuki Masuyama, Kallmann Museum, Ismaning, Germany
2014
Hiroyuki Masuyama, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Hiroyuki Masuyama,Storm Kunsthalle, Gießen, Germany
-0°C Hiroyuki Masuyama, Werft 77 Kunst im Hafen Düsseldorf, Germany
Time and Space. Travel with Turner and Masuyama, Photo & Contemporary, Turin, Italy
2013
Still-life Flowers, Art Eck, Solingen, Germany, Pièce Unique Gallery, Paris, France
Transform, Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland
Gallery Art Eck, Solingen, Germany
Rome 1585-2012, Studio la Città, Verona
Rome 1585-2012, La Nuova Pesa Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Cava de Tirreni 1792 - 2012, Galerie Pièce Unique,Paris
2012
Sorolla's gardens, with Stefano Scheda, curated by Peter Weiermair, MLB Gallery, Ferrara
Blumen F.U.S.S., Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Hiroyuki Masuyama 1000 Blumen, Künsthalle Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2010
Hiroyuki Masuyama. The Time Travel, Mikkeli Art Museum, Mikkeli, Finland
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Louis Vuitton Hong Kong Maison Cultural Space, Hong Kong
After J.M.W. Turner. The Last Journey to Venice, Studio La Città, Verona,Italy
2009
Hiroyuki Masuyama, Beyeler Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Pièce Unique Gallery Paris, France
The Spirit of Travel. Hiroyuki Masuyama. Taipei Maison Cultural Space, Taipei
Studio la Città at Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2008
Omaggio a Turner, curated by Angela Madesani, MLB Gallery, Ferrara
Turner a Roma, Traghetto Gallery, Rome, Italy
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2002
Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Gallery Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
Junge Künstler, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2001
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
2000
Syrius, Düsseldorf, Germany
Konrad Mönter Gallery, Meerbuch, Germany
1994
Miyu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Tsukuba Art Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
group exhibitions
2016
Vue d‘Interlaken, KunsthausInterlaken, Interlaken, Switzerland
Lasst Blumen sprechen! Blumen und künstliche Natur seit 1960, Museum Schloss moyland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
2015
Portrait of Nature Fotografie van Kim Boske, Nobuyuki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Museum de Buitenplaats, Eelde, Holland
Turner en de Traditie van het sublieme, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Holland
Italia Inside Out, Palazzo della Ragione di Milano, Milan, Italy
Dörfler, WERFT 77 / Projekthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zeitreise. Die Sammlung von 1904 bis 2014, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Das Unendliche im Endlichen Romantik und Gegenwart, Kunstsammlung Jena, Germany
Painting meets photography, Dr.Robert Gerlich Museum, Burghausen, Germany
Land in Sicht, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Bildtaktik, Universitätssammlungen Kunst Technik Altana Galerie der Tu Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Die Erfindung der Landschaft, Sven Drühl und Hiroyuki Masuyama in Korrespondenz mit Casper David Friedrich, Wimmer puls, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany
Baywatch, Galeria Hartwich, Ostseeband Sellin auf Rügen, Germany
Auf den Spuren von William Turner,Helene B. Grossmann und Hiroyuki Masuyama, Galerie Reichlin AG Küssnacht am Rigi, Switzerland
Himmelwarts, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Lichter über den strassen, E. ON-Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
11 Japanische Künstler in Nordrhein-Westfalen, NRW Landtag, Düsseldorf, Germany
Symmetry by Hiroyuki Masuyama & Norihisa Hashimoto, SPAM, Düsseldorf, Germany
Japan Art Today, Kunsthaus Interlaken, Interlaken, Switzerland
Elsewhere. Sehnsuchtsbilder in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kallmann, Museum Ismaning, Ismaning, Germany
Wasser ist Leben, Kunsthalle Gießen Gießen, Germany
Outer Spacefaszination Weltraum, Bundes Kunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2013
Nissan Art Award 2013, Bank Art, Yokohama, Japan
Mart Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Artoll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Rosa Piero Rosa Tiepolo Rosa Spalletti, Rosa, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
2012
The Flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti, Trieste, Italy
Wunder Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria
power FLOWER, Abtart, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Soramame / Himmelsbohnen, Hans Peter Zimmer Stiftung Düsseldorf, Germany
Wunder, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Drift-an Exploration of Urban & Suburban Landscapes, Collections Building, Arts Area, Heart of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2010
Above and Beyond, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
The Castle of Discipline, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Entre glace et neige, Centro Saint Benin, Aosta, Italy
2009
Summer Show, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Galleria Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Milan, Italy
Garten, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
Sharjah Biennial 9,Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Temperatura Estena, Palazzo della Provincia, Pordenone, Italy
2008
FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
Nostalgie, Museum d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce-Genova, Genoa, Italy
Reinventing the space, Udine Far East, Udine, Italy
Japan now, Ter Alia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
Gescheiterte Hoffnung/Romantik heute?, Herbest Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
Zeit in Bildern, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Natur, Frieder Burda, Baden Baden Museum, Baden Baden, Germany
2007
Artseasons, Cape Town, South Africa
Unter Sternen, Franz Gertsch Museum, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Erdenkinder, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Ruft die Berge, Artoll Kunstlabor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Acqua, Forni Galleria d’Arte, Bologna, Italy
Cornice Art Fair, Venice, Italy
8 container aus Japan, Kunst im Hafen e.V. Düsseldorf, Germany
Wunder Garten, Orto Botanico di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Garten Eden. Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
2006
Mountains, Beyeler Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
Flowers, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim Heidenheim, Germany
In den Alpen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2005
Flight 405, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany
Flight 405, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Blumenstük Künstler Glück, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Kunstverein Glückstadt e.V. Glückstadt, Germany
D/J Brand, The University Art Museum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Art Expansion+Sign2004, Tsukuba Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
maravee corofilla, Comunicarte Edizioni, Trieste, Italy
Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Turin, Italy
Artseasons, CasPellers, Palma di Mallorca, Mallorca, Spanien
Robinson. Geografie naturali e dell’uomo, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Baciamo le mani. Willkommen, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
Dreamscapes, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
35th Anniversary of the Gallery, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
2003
Foto 2003, Tsukuba Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
Japan. Contemporary Ceramics and Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
START, Centro Arte Contemporanea Cavalese, Italy
Digital Creators Contest 2002, London, England
Transparent, Timmendorfer Strand Trinkkurhalle, Timmendorf, Germany
Outlook, International Art Exhibition, Athens, Greece
Kartographie, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2002
International School of New Media, Lübeck, Germany
Kunstpreis Kreissparkasse Recklinghausen, Kutscherhaus, Recklinghausen, Germany
Zoll, Alte Zollhalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Canon Digital Creators Contest 2002, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Rausverkauf, Kunstbüro Bach Selbek, Düsseldorf, Germany
Visionen einer Zukunft, Wollhalle, Güstrow, Germany
Art Expansion+Sign2001, Tsukuba Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
See you hear, Academy of the Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Points of view, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Epson Color Imaging Contest 2001, Tokyo, Japan
Big Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000
Germany Video Art 1998-2000, Skulptermuseun Marl, Marl, Germany
Artoll Labor 2000, Artoll Labor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
MediArt Friesland, St.Jacobiparochie, Holland
Art Cologne 2000, Cologne, Germany
Faszination Technik Fotopreis, Hamburg, Deutschland
Big Art Exhibition NRW Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999
Artoll Labor 1999, Artoll Labor, Bedburg-Hau, Germany
53. Bergische Exhibition, Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany
Art Expansion+Sign1999, Tsukuba Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
Japandorf, Thun Museum, Thun, Switzerland
Big Art Exhibition, NRW Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1998
Interim, Michael Cosar Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Düsseldorf-Seoul-Tokyo, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
1997
Jetelova class in Gütersloh, Kunstverein Gütersloh, Gütersloh, Germany
Germany in Seoul, Academy of Arts Keiwon, Seoul, Korea
Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Düsseldorf – Poznan, Miedzynarodowe Centrum Sztuki, Poznan, Poland
1990
12345678, Tsukuba Museum, Tsukuba, Japan
awards
2002
Kunstpreis Kreissparkasse Recklinghausen, 1st prize
Canon Digital Creators Contest 2002, 3rd prize
2001
Epson Color Imaging Contest 2001, 2nd prize
2000
Art Bahn, 1st prize
