Japanese Coolness on Canvas: Oil Painter SUGIYAMA Hinako Japanese Coolness on Canvas：油絵画家 杉山日向子

Wish you were here, wish you were queer. SUGIYAMA Hinako 杉山日向子 depicts her subverting beauty with animating elongated limbs, gesturing hands and cooly tilted heads that imbue them with a notion of iconicity and lends them the appearance of the contemporary broken youth. Her visual language enhance the sublime opulence of the androgynous and non binary, beguiling viewers through the iridescent shimmer of her seductive faces, even as they sense the ravenous spacey breaks that lurks beneath the glamour.

Sugiyama’s juxtaposition of unhooked and vulnerable personal action/interaction with dreamlike soundscapes (I can hear European re-mix Funk in her paintings) enact a concise groove scene implying collaborative creativity.
Who am I? How can 26-year-old Hinako seduce you and invite you to new, copacetic experiences?

Transcending a kind of postapocalyptic Japanese social and gender liberation, her sensitive self-portraits inspire imaginative realms of passionate, arousal vibrations and the manifestation of a slutty self-control. Her oil paintings dramatise themes of intimacy and atonality that blend the goth-contemporary with hints of Japanese pop-culture.

Sugiyama’s variations of idiosyncratic and cool self-performances. Raw, kawaii, witty, seducing moments which are slowed down in a surrealistic, untidy painterly manner, brought to a stillness full of tension and potential for explosive action. Indeed, ambiguous origins of the Japanese subversive Zeitgeist. Bravissima!
Tokyo-Basel, 16th of June 2024
亜 真里男 Mario A

Hinako Sugiyama 杉山日向子 @ IG
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