Shu Takahashi

Takahashi’s works combines traditional Japanese painting with contemporary pictorial practice. He seeks to synthesize the flat and homogeneously painted qualities of Japanese drawings with the notion of the canvas as more than just a supporting structure. For Takahashi, it is an integral part of the image. His particular treatment of colors – how he modulates and juxtaposes them as if plastic entities – is evident in La goccia nel blu (The drops in the blue) and La Trinità (The trinity). Takahashi is not an emotive or symbolic painter. His abstraction is perceptive and spiritual, with bright chromes that harken back to Japanese philosophic traditions.

Shu Takahashi was born in 1930 in Hiroshima, Japan. He lives and works in Kurashiki, Japan. He studied at the Art School Musashino in Tokyo and the Fine Arts Academy in Rome. His work has been exhibited at Galleria del Cavallino (Venice), GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome), and the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art (Japan). He is included in the Imago Mundi collection “Hiroshima / Nagasaki.”