Susumu Kamijo
Artist Spotlight
Susumu Kamijo Finds Beauty Between Two Worlds
Something quietly electric is happening around the work of Susumu Kamijo. Collectors in Tokyo, Hong Kong, and across Western Europe have been tracking his practice with growing enthusiasm, drawn to a body of work that feels simultaneously rooted and restless, intimate and expansive. His pieces appear at auction with increasing regularity, and the range of his output, from luminous works on paper to polished sculptural objects, signals an artist whose vision refuses easy categorization. For those paying close attention, Kamijo has become one of the more compelling figures to emerge from a… Continue reading
Artists in conversation
Hiroshi Senju
Senju works in a similarly atmospheric and serene visual language, blending traditional Japanese aesthetics with contemporary abstraction, often focusing on natural elements rendered in muted, luminous tones.
Makoto Fujimura
Fujimura navigates the same dialogue between Eastern artistic traditions and Western contemporary sensibilities, producing minimalist and contemplative works that share Kamijo's soft, meditative quality.
Eikoh Hosoe
Hosoe's practice similarly bridges Japanese cultural identity with modernist abstraction, employing a refined visual language that resonates with themes of nature, movement, and atmospheric space.
Artists who inspired them
Katsushika Hokusai
Hokusai's masterful treatment of natural landscapes and his emphasis on atmospheric movement in nature would have been a foundational reference for Kamijo's own landscape oriented and nature driven visual language.
Mark Rothko
Rothko's color field approach to abstraction, using muted and layered tones to evoke serene emotional states, connects directly to the soft minimalist and emotionally resonant qualities found in Kamijo's paintings.
Yves Klein
Klein's exploration of transparent and atmospheric color as a carrier of spiritual and emotional meaning aligns with the transparent elements and joyful yet contemplative tone evident in Kamijo's contemporary practice.