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[Two-Artist Show] The Freedom of Contemporary Sculpture — Gensho Sugawara & Naohiro Takahashi "The Metamorphosis" @ EUKARYOTE

【2人展】現代彫刻の自在性〜菅原玄奨・ 高橋直宏 「The Metamorphosis」@EUKARYOTE

The Metamorphosis

I visited “The Metamorphosis,” a project by two sculptors held at the gallery “EUKARYOTE” in Gaienmae.
The sculptors are Gensho Sugawara and Naohiro Takahashi.

Gallery EUKARYOTE, which invited these two contrasting sculptors, staged a display in which their works dizzyingly intersected from the 1st to the 3rd floor.

Naohiro Takahashi, who leaves rough carving marks, and Gensho Sugawara, whose slick, slippery texture is emotional—each of their works asserts its own presence as an independent work while also intersecting their mutual relationships, and I enjoyed viewing them.

Naohiro Takahashi 《箱庭で遊ぶ》 2019 — 1st floor
Naohiro Takahashi 《箱庭で遊ぶ》 2019 — 1st floor
Naohiro Takahashi 《嵐》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《嵐》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《斜陽》 2018
Naohiro Takahashi 《斜陽》 2018
Installation view
Installation view
Gensho Sugawara 《stranger(portrait) vol.2》 2019
Gensho Sugawara 《stranger(portrait) vol.2》 2019
Gensho Sugawara 《stranger(portrait) vol.1》 2019
Gensho Sugawara 《stranger(portrait) vol.1》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《アラベスク》 2018
Naohiro Takahashi 《アラベスク》 2018
Gensho Sugawara 《a man 2》 2017
Gensho Sugawara 《a man 2》 2017
Naohiro Takahashi 《自閉のレリーフ》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《自閉のレリーフ》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《賢人》 2018
Naohiro Takahashi 《賢人》 2018
From the installation view
From the installation view
Gensho Sugawara 《dalmatian》 2018
Gensho Sugawara 《dalmatian》 2018
Naohiro Takahashi 《奥歯がない》 2019
Naohiro Takahashi 《奥歯がない》 2019

The energy each work holds was strong, with a real sense of presence.
A dense space was in command.

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