Shingo OOYA: “A Duality Between Photography and 2D Modern Art”
Dates: Thursday, April 2, 2026 – Sunday, May 3, 2026, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (
Open daily) Venue: OM Art × Music (8th Floor, 735-3 Higashishiokojicho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture)
Organized by: Gallery Tosei
Event : KG+ (KYOTOGRAPHIE）
KG+ (KYOTOGRAPHIE）
https://kgplus.kyotographie.jp/exhibitions/2026/shingo-ooya/
This photo exhibition presents photographs taken using natural light as their starting point, alongside two-dimensional digital artworks created by extracting and reconfiguring the colors and structures of those photographs. Although both works originate from the same image, they are juxtaposed as belonging to different expressive systems.
Photography is a medium that directly captures real-world light, maintaining a physical continuity with the real world through the act of taking a photograph. In contrast, two-dimensional modern art created from photographs intentionally pushes the concreteness of the subject into the background and, by reorganizing elements such as color, form, and structure, emerges as an image existing on a different plane from reality.
This exhibition presents photographs captured from the light of
reality, alongside two-dimensional contemporary artworks generated by
extracting and reconfiguring colors and structures from those
photographs. Although both originate from the same image, they are
juxtaposed as distinct systems of expression.
Photographs are expressions that capture light directly and,
through the act of shooting, maintain a physical continuity with the
real world. In contrast, two-dimensional contemporary artworks derived
from photographs intentionally background the concreteness of their
subjects, reorganizing elements such as color, form, and structure to
manifest images in a phase distinct from reality.
In statistical physics, there is the important concept of duality,
which describes how different descriptive frameworks or perspectives
applied to a phenomenon ultimately converge upon the same underlying
structure or essence. Although the paths from different starting
points may vary, the results are led toward a common point.
Between images rooted in the light and shadows of reality and
those derived from them that deviate from reality, the exhibition
seeks a substratum where their expressive essence becomes equivalent.
In front of the photographs and the two-dimensional contemporary
artworks created from them, viewers engage with the works through
their knowledge, memory, and sensibility. In this process, the two
expressions with different origins converge upon a shared sensory and
intellectual essence, which the exhibition seeks to visualize.
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Shingo OOYA
As a two-dimensional contemporary artist, I have been creating and exhibiting works in Spain since 2004, employing digital techniques to transform photographs that I have taken myself. I am currently a professor at Nagoya Bunri University, holding a Ph.D. in Engineering. My research focuses on statistical mechanics, particularly critical phenomena in lattice systems, and I also lead a seminar on photography at the same university.
2004, Galeria CATARSIS, Madrid
2004, Spejo’s (Bibliography and Publications)
2005, Galeria CATARSIS, Madrid
2006, “Non Stop—Contemporary Art of the New Generation” Galeria Catarsis, September 6, 2006–September 15, 2006
2007, “NON STOP, Japanese Contemporary Art in Oviedo” Oviedo, October 21, 2006 – November 8, 2006
2007, “NON STOP JAPANESE CONTEMPORARY ART” Huelva, December 2, 2007 – December 21, 2007
2008, “Non Stop: Accidentes Plásticos,” Oviedo, June 18–30,
2008 2008, “La Exposición de Septiembre,” Galería CATARSIS, September 12–25,
2008 2009, “Non Stop. Avant” Valencia, July 3, 2009 – July 28, 2009
2009, “The September Exhibition” CATARSIS Gallery, September 11, 2009 – September 30, 2009
2010, “EXPOSICIÓN NON STOP” CATARSIS Gallery, September 1–30, 2010 Art Room 2011–2012 Catalog
2011, “Castellón Pictograma Gallery Exhibition” Castellón, June 16, 2011 – July 30,
2011 2013, CATARSIS Gallery, July 4, 2013 – July 24, 2013 2015, NON STOP 2015: “ANTÍPODA”, Galeria CATARSIS, Madrid Art Room
Catalog 2015–2016 Art Room
Catalog 2019–2020
2020, 2020, EXHIBITION: ART ROOM F8 COLLECTION + NON STOP JAPANESE ART
COLLECTION Art Room Catalog 2022–2023 Art Room
Catalog 2024–2026
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