Hiroyuki Masuyama’s variously sized light-boxes are not simply photographic reproductions of the paintings and watercolours of William Turner. They are instead a conceptual operation on the work of this great English artist. Their subject is the works undertaken by Turner during his first journey from London to Venice. Masuyama has followed each stage of this journey and made visual notes, but in a different medium: in the place of sketches he has used photography. But just like Turner, who brought these graphic notes and reminders back to England in order to re-elaborate them in his studio, so too Masuyama has brought the images he captured back to his studio in Düsseldorf and submitted them to a complex operation of montage. The images of his journey and those of the paintings by Turner have thus become in the luminous work of this forty-something Japanese artist a harmonious unicum in which the limits of space-time have been overcome. (see biography)
J.M.W.Turner, Cockmouth Castle – 2008
LED Lightbox, 180 x 256 x 6 cm
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J.M.W.Turner, Heidelberg, 1846 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 33,4 x 55,3 x 4 cm
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J.M.W.TURNER, Ehrenbreistein No.1 1841 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 24,9 x 34 x 4 cm
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J.M.W.Turner, The Red Rigi, Sunset, 1842 – 2009
LED Lightbox, 30,5 x 45,8 x 4 cm
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J.M.W.Turner, Stonehenge, 1836 – 2009
LED Lightbox, 27,9 x 40,4 x 4 cm
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J.M.W. TURNER, The Passage of Mount St Ghotard, taken from
the ceter of the Teufels Bruch, 1804 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 101 x 68 x 4 cm
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J.M.W.TURNER, San Giorgio Maggiore at Sunset, 1840 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 22 x 32 x 4 cm
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J.M.W.Turner, The Doge's Palace and the Piazzetta, 1840 – 2009
LED Lightbox, 24 x 30,4 x 4 cm
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J.M.W. TURNER, Ancient Italy, Ovid banished from Rome, 1838 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 94,6 x 125 x 4 cm
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J.M.W. TURNER, Arch of Costantine, Rome 1835 – 2008
LED Lightbox, 91 x 122 x 4 cm
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McKINLEY - Flight N. 1 – 2006
Led Lightbox, 30 x 300 x 4 cm
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MADRID-BERLINO N. 1 – 2006
Lightbox, 30 x 260 x 13 cm
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LONDON-BERLIN N. 1 – 2006
Lightbox, 30 x 260 x 13 cm
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LONDON-DUSSELDORF – 2004
Lightbox, 25 x 310 x 13 cm
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PARIGI-VERONA N. 1 – 2005
Lightbox, 30 x 285 x 13 cm
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SUMMER N. 3 – 2003
Lightbox, 25 x 84 x 13
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AUTUMN N. 2 – 2001
Lightbox, 25 x 84 x 13 cm
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WINTER No. 1 – 2004
Lightbox, 25 x 84 x 13 cm
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MAGNOLIA N. 2 – 2006
Lightbox, 70 x 136 x 13 cm
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SAKURA N. 2 – 2006
Lightbox, 100 x 147 x 13 cm
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SAKURA N. 3 – 2006
Lightbox, 100 x 147 x 13 cm
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Installation view
Art Cologne 2009
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Installation view
Studio la Città 2008-09
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