Shuzo Takechi

Since 2021, I have been working primarily with photography.

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There is only form.
Nothing else.

For me, issues of vision and recognition may sometimes come afterward.

Even so, there is only form there.
Nothing else.

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Conscious perception cannot exist without the frameworks of language, images, and categorization.
Yet sensations prior to perception must remain within us as signs, however faint.
An unfamiliar form may guide us toward them.

But cultural codes will surely not allow it.
They will subordinate perception to meaning.

When Monet sought to capture the shimmer of light and atmosphere,
when Cézanne layered the fragments he called “petits sensations,”
when Kandinsky and Mondrian eliminated the object entirely to establish abstraction—
it was, in fact, the emergence of a new cultural code.

And yet, form is still there.
Simply there.

2005
MFA in Oil Painting, Graduate School of Art and Design, Joshibi University of Art and Design, Japan

1997
BFA in Oil Painting, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University, Japan

solo show

2024 Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia (photograph)​
2024 Space Place Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia (photograph)

group show
2009 Gallery b.Tokyo, Kyobashi, Japan (Oil Painting)
2008 Gallery b.Tokyo, Kyobashi, Japan (Oil Painting)
2004 Gallery Seira, Ginza, Japan (Oil Painting)
2003 Gallery Seira, Ginza, Japan (Oil Painting)
2000 Bokushin Gallery, Ginza, Japan (Acrylic Painting etc)
1999 Gallery Mirage, Shibuya, Japan (Performance)
1999 Bokushin Gallery, Ginza, Japan (Acrylic Painting etc)
1998 Tokyo Zokei University Museum, Hachioji, Japan (installation)