Yoshihiko Tsutsumi: Intersections of Cosmos

Yoshihiko Tsutsumi is an accomplished graphic designer and artist (and a professional antiques dealer, gallerist and art director too, as it happens). Influenced by the immersive environment of his uncle’s cinema billboard painting atelier in Kumamoto, Japan, he draws inspiration from the captivating interplay of colours and dripping marks on the studio floor.

Tsutsumi’s creative process “unfolds like a meticulously crafted spider’s nest, guided by an equidistant grid that shapes the evolution of lines and forms,” says the gallery. “This grid serves as a blueprint, orchestrating the sequential connection of outlines, akin to the organic process of cell reproduction found in living beings, rocks, and metals.”

His layer series explores phenomena materialising through the accumulation of colours, and these are immediate and impactful; more discreet and perhaps more cerebral are his monochromatic series, where white pencil traces dance over black canvases or vice versa, mirrors an architectural process where elements are meticulously plotted and constructed.

Tsutsumi was one of the standouts in XVA’s September group show on capturing movement in art; he’s an interesting, exciting painter. Recommended.

To 9 January.