NANZUKA will quickly current a retrospective exhibition on Hajime Sorayama, the famend Japanese illustrator who’s recognized for his superrealist artworks that includes horny robots.
Entitled, Mild, Reflection, Transparency exhibition will embrace an unlimited physique of artworks from way back to the Nineteen Seventies. As highlighted within the present’s title, gentle, reflection and transparency are parts which can be explored and pursued in Sorayama’s artwork — proof of the artist’s fixed strife in depicting gentle past the constraints of conventional portray.
In Sorayama’s illustrations, human figures, animals and extinct creatures like dinosaurs are depicted alongside robots, providing a speculative imaginative and prescient of a future the place natural life types merge with mechanical civilization. These creations are intentionally crafted to prod one’s creativeness, intertwining themes comparable to human mind, the physique and time, whereas elevating profound questions on the way forward for know-how and synthetic intelligence.
The exhibition will characteristic a myriad of Sorayama’s iconic artworks, spanning new sculptures, a video set up, the monumental aluminum robotic that was displayed at Dior’s Pre-Fall 2019 menswear present to his first robotic portray for a whiskey advert in 1978.
Mild, Reflection, Transparency will open on February 28 at NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE in Shanghai. The exhibition might be obtainable till June 15, 2025.
NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE
3F, The Summit tower #1,
Pudong New District, Shanghai
China
