Hajime Sorayama 'Light, Reflection, Transparency'

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NANZUKA will soon present a retrospective exhibition on Hajime Sorayama, the renowned Japanese illustrator who’s known for his superrealist artworks featuring sexy robots.

Entitled, Light, Reflection, Transparency exhibition will include a vast body of artworks from as far back as the 1970s. As highlighted in the show’s title, light, reflection and transparency are elements that are explored and pursued in Sorayama’s art — evidence of the artist’s constant strife in depicting light beyond the constraints of traditional painting.

In Sorayama’s illustrations, human figures, animals and extinct creatures like dinosaurs are depicted alongside robots, offering a speculative vision of a future where organic life forms merge with mechanical civilization. These creations are deliberately crafted to prod one’s imagination, intertwining themes such as human intellect, the body and time, while raising profound questions about the future of technology and artificial intelligence.

The exhibition will feature a myriad of Sorayama’s iconic artworks, spanning new sculptures, a video installation, the monumental aluminum robot that was displayed at Dior’s Pre-Fall 2019 menswear show to his first robot painting for a whiskey ad in 1978.

Light, Reflection, Transparency will open on February 28 at NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE in Shanghai. The exhibition will be available until June 15, 2025.

NANZUKA ART INSTITUTE
3F, The Summit tower #1,
Pudong New District, Shanghai
China