The first comprehensive publication on Hiroki Tsukuda, encompassing work from the past nine years. Referring to cineastic archetypes, the title of the exhibition specifies a concrete moment as well as a precise task and therein delivers a clue to the understanding of Japanese artist Hiroki Tsukuda’s works. Hence, Tsukuda can be see as a archaeologist of images. Layer by layer the artist frees his own imaginary pictorial world. These worlds only exist in Tsukuda’s fantasy at first, but are assembled by digital technology and brought to paper in ink and charcoal.

Contributor: Reiko Tsubaki

Publisher: Nanzuka, Tokyo, Petzel, New York & Galerie Gisela Capitain, Berlin, 2018.

Language: English

Printed in an edition of 500, each in acrylic slipcase and signed by the artist, 9 x 7 x 1 in.

ISBN: 978-4-9909289-5-7

About the artist

Hiroki Tsukuda (b. 1978, Kagawa, Japan)

Hiroki Tsukuda was born in 1978 in Kagawa, Japan. He graduated from the Department of Imaging Arts & Sciences at Musashino Art University in 2001. Tsukuda lives and works in Tokyo.

The artist’s drawings and digital collage explore the turbulent, futuristic cityscapes of his imaginings. Created with meticulous detail, these intricate, monochromatic works illustrate collapsed spaces, in which mechanized worlds merge with sci-fi mythos in states of controlled chaos and organic mutation. Similarly, Tsukuda creates installation works out of raw industrial material, flora, and found objects that transpire directly from the artist’s drawings.

Tsukuda’s has mounted solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma (2019); Capitain Petzel (2018); Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (2017); and Nanzuka, Tokyo (2014), among others. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2019); Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2019); Jack Hanley Gallery, New York (2016); and Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Postdam e.V., Potsdam (2015), among others.