EXHIBITION: Hanafuda Shouzoku by Shinya Masuda
HANAFUDA SHOUZOKU
SHINYA MASUDA
MAY 7 - JUNE 19, 2021
HANAFUDA SHOUZOKU #5, Archival Pigement Print on KYOKUSHI
Opening: Friday, May 7th, from 5pm - 8pm
Candela Gallery is thrilled to announce HANAFUDA SHOUZOKU, a solo exhibition by Japanese photographer, Shinya Masuda. The exhibition will open this Friday, May 7th, from 5 - 8pm and continue through June 18th.
As a former French chef turned photographer, Masuda's digitally constructed still-life works are sculpted from decaying subjects and combined with an attraction to eccentric color. Influenced by his Mother and Grandmother's appreciation for traditional Japanese textiles and paintings, each collage has a familiar relationship to materiality and everyday objects.
Masuda's work is built off of the Japanese card game Hanafuda. Each suite of images combines the decaying subjects to shapes and floral motifs reminiscent of the 12 suits honoring each month of the year and the fleeting passage of time.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Shinya Masuda was born 1965 in Nagoya, Japan. After studying French cuisine and working as a chef for 12 years, he decided to pursue photography. He studied Visual Communications Design at Nagano Art and Design School and worked at a design company as a commercial photographer. Trained by renowned photographer HASHi, he now works as a professional photographer in Tokyo. His work has been exhibited internationally and in 2018 he participated in the World Photo Festival in Italy and Contemporary Photography Biennale in Paris.