Masaru Shichinohe

Masaru Shichinohe, born in 1959 in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design, major in architecture. After working in architectural firm for three years, he started his career as professional painter. The atmospheric pressure on Masaru Shichinohe’s planet also approaches zero. Apalpable stillness pervades his tableaus of young boys and girls, glassy-eyed rabbits, mechanical baubles, celestial bodies, led zeppelinds, and clocks eternally set at 12 o’clock. Even demonstrations of movement like the trajectory of a billiard ball are stopped in mid-air at different points in t, recalling the Italian Futurists’ experimentations with multiple exposure photography. They are stutters in Shichinohe’s otherwitse frictionless space.

b. 1959, Aomori Prefecture, Japan

1981 Graduated from Musashino Art University, College of Art and Design

Currently lives and works in Tokyo

Solo Exhibitions

2018 “Tokyo Whisper”, Hillside Gallery / Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

2017 “Phantasmagoria”, Hillside Gallery, Tokyo

2013 “Kokusyoku Sumire Concert ~Tribute to Masaru Shichinohe~”, Parabolica-bis, Tokyo

2012 “The Girl Records Everything”, Omega Algea, Tokyo

2010 “Black Angel”, Ping Art Space, Taipei

2009 “Little Lady”, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo

2007 “Dark-haired Cinderella”, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo

2004 “Platonic”, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo

2002 “Converging Parallel Lines”, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo

2001 “A Boy without T”, Aoki Gallery, Tokyo

2000 “Masaru Shichinohe Solo Exhibition”, ArtWall, Tokyo

1994 “Physics Discourse”, HB Gallery, Tokyo

Publications

2020 “Tokyo Whisper”（Hive Center for Contemporary Art）

2017 “Phantasmagoria”（Ping Fine Chinese Art & Co.）

2010 “Black Angel”（Ping Fine Chinese Art & Co.）

2005 “Oishasan-gokko”（Asukashinsha Publishing）

2001 “Campanélla－The Mechanical Boy and the Magic Bugle” （PAROL Publishing House）

2002 “Hako-Shonen”（PAROL Publishing House）

Collections

Long Museum, Shanghai

G Museum, Nanjing