Hiroyuki Masuyama

Hiroyuki Masuyama focuses on space and time. He condenses their presence and flow into overwhelming yet subtle works. For Masuyama, art is a great adventure and freedom beyond all limitations of space and time: he shows us places where all seasons reign simultaneously. He proves that it is possible to see something from all sides at once. He cycles through an entire year in a minute and lets us float freely in space.

A whole series of time travels takes Masuyama to the era of European Romanticism. From hundreds of photographs, he recomposes the works of the great masters and lets us experience their fascination anew in a contemporary form. He encounters Joseph Mallord William Turner in Venice, Rome, and London. He appears in Caspar David Friedrich's metaphysical worldviews.
“The time levels fused in this way make it clear once again: art always has only one present. It is the one in which thinking about it takes place.” Michael Freitag

Hiroyuki Masuyama was born in Tsukuba, Japan, in 1968. He graduated from the University of the Arts in Tokyo and studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Museums, art halls, and galleries in Europe and Japan have organized numerous solo exhibitions for the versatile painter, draftsman, sculptor, and photographer. His works can be found in many renowned collections.