High Quality ▷ Midnight blooms by Soichiro Shimizu, 2024 | Acrylic Painting

Soichiro Shimizu explores the captivating interaction between opposite forces: the creation and decomposition of nature and humanity. His paintings, shaped with duality and impermanence, invite us to consider the meaning of cyclicity and the transitory nature of existence.

Shimizu builds up layers of multiple colors with high-energy movements, emphasizing his impact on materials. These layers are then “deconstructed” by sanding process. The strata, at first invisible, are then unveiled. This process reveals the traces of his past creative activities, like remnants of a memory in constant transformation.

The artist invites us to contemplate the very essence that existed before the layers were constructed, suggesting a deeper truth hidden beneath the surface. What is revealed is what has always been there.