Spiegel im Spiegel - Solo Exhibition of Uzo Hiramatsu & Susumu Takashima

Feb 27 - Apr 03, 2021

Soka Art Tainan

Soka Art is honored to introduce to you the new exhibition "Spiegel im Spiegel" in 2021. This exhibition is named after the representative work "Spiegel im Spiegel" by Arvo Pärt, one of the most successful composers of the 20th century. This song is composed of three simple notes, which embodies the spirit of minimalism and gives the listener a feeling of infinite extension. Just like the works of Uzo Hiramatsu and Susumu Takashima, the purest form and composition create unlimited possibilities.


We invite Japanese artists Uzo Hiramatsu and Susumu Takashima to exhibit together. This is also the first solo exhibition of the two artists in Taiwan and will bring you more than 20 wonderful pieces. works.

Uzo Hiramatsu is a lecturer at Fukuoka School of Design, Japan. He is good at using large areas of color blocks and flexible lines to outline nature and reinterpret the beauty and details of life. His work has been collected by Louis Vuitton of Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Store, and was reported by VOGUE as "7 Artists You Must Pay Attention to". Recently, he was invited to cooperate with SHOW studio sponsored by Nick Knight, an honorary professor of the University of the Arts in London and a fashion photographer, to launch a new creation that combines Japanese aesthetics and fashion styles across the border.


Susumu Takashima has a background in architecture and painting, He makes use of the peculiarities of ink, brush, and coloured pencils. Each work is made up of an accumulation of lines, whose width changes all the time as a result of the wearing of the point of the pencil and the using up of the ink on the brush. His works have been in the permanent collections of Ome City Museum of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Japan and Haneda Airport.