About the Artist

Since he was a student, Sugiyama has consistently been drawing “planes that look geometrically solid”. The surface formed by the composition of the lines is precisely combined with the addition of colors, and by relying only on the subjective sensation, and continuing to connect them in a restricted screen, it is an unrealistic reality that is reminiscent of Escher’s deception I am producing a two-dimensional work with a realistic three-dimensional effect. Surprisingly, these compositions, which seem to have been made by digital processing for a moment, are completed by the analog method of his brain and senses. It’s an irrational technique that makes you feel like you’re going against this era of computer prosperity, but once again you’ll be reminded of how incredible the human brain is and at the same time its incomprehension.

Another focus of his work is the movement created by the single elements of lines and planes. A person perceives continuity by overlapping physical elements, and recognizes some movement/flow there. In his work, by multiplying the surfaces that make up the lines generated on the screen as a complex, a three-dimensional object is created, and we sense the movement as a mass (mass mass). Fall into the illusion. What causes this illusion is the magic of his “form making” that originated from lines. In addition, by intuitively adding the selected color to the propagated surface, the difference in adjacent colors gives the sensation that light and shadow are irregularly present. Such a process toward the proliferation of mass in his plane was constructed from the viewpoint of his own “form making” that emphasizes the single elements of lines and surfaces as analog and subjectivity. There is no doubt that his work of extracting all parts from the process with a unique sense differs from the conventional concept of geometryism and is a completely new style.