Contemporary Tokyo (Beijing Space) is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition in China of Japanese artist Hitoshi Tsuboyama, titled "ENCODE," from February 11th (Sat) to March 31st (Fri).

Tsuboyama was born in 1981 in Sendai, Japan, and completed his Master's degree in Oil Painting Techniques and Materials Research at the Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010.

Exhibition Information: Title: "ENCODE" by Hitoshi Tsuboyama Date: February 11th (Sat) to March 31st (Fri) Opening Hours: 12:00-18:00 (Closed on Sundays and holidays)

Venue: Contemporary Tokyo Beijing Space at Borod-Art Center (No.3, Building D7, 3rd Floor, Jinhang East Road, Shunyi District, Beijing, China) Admission: Free

Artist Statement: My paintings are based on the theme of "visualizing the quantum optical properties of light and its interference." Light behaves in ways that are beyond our everyday perception and common sense, constantly moving and interacting in the micro world to construct our world. One of the phenomena that reveals this behavior is interference, where the waves of light overlap, reinforcing or canceling each other to emphasize specific colors of light, such as the iridescent colors on the surface of soap bubbles or the back of CDs. While light enables humans to see, the world that we perceive is limited and selective, and there are many things that we cannot perceive clearly. I aim to visualize these imperceptible elements through my paintings.

Light has a dual nature of both particle and wave. The particles of light, called photons, interfere with each other as waves to produce new waveforms, resulting in geometric beauty and all colors. In creating my paintings, I use the properties of light, such as its straight, reflective, and refractive behaviors for form, and the additive color mixing for color. While mixing pigments in paint tends to reduce brightness, when mixing colors of light, the brightness increases as they overlap. My process involves creating paintings based on light rays, then overlaying the inverted colors of the image with the original to reconstruct it. Based on this image, I use acrylic, particles with a different phase than the light, to visualize the behavior of light on a new canvas. Through this process of moving back and forth between analog and digital, material and light, sensation and perception, I aim to express the nature of our world.