Yuji Akatsuka, Route41924, Courtesy of the Artist and Hagiwara Projects
Yuji Akatsuka, Untitled 43526, Courtesy of the Artist and Hagiwara Projects
At Liste, Hagiwara Projects is pleased to present the work of Japanese artist Yuji Akatsuka. Akatsuka creates distinctive painterly surfaces in which layered lines, shapes, and planes of paint merge with ambiguous contours, generating compositions that shift between presence and disappearance. Rooted in physical gestures and traces left through the act of painting, his works evoke fragments of everyday forms and sensations without ever fully resolving into recognizable images. Through this fluid interplay of appearance and dissolution, Akatsuka develops a constantly transforming abstract pictorial space.
Yuji Akatsuka (b. 1955,) is a Japanese painter known for his abstract works that explore the materiality and spatial possibilities of painting. He began exhibiting in the 1980s and has since presented numerous solo exhibitions at galleries in Japan. His work has been acquired in major public collections, including the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; among others.