Kyoto Meetings

Perrotin Tokyo returns to Art Collaboration Kyoto with a solo booth by New York-based Japanese artist Susumu Kamijo. Kamijo works with the everyday—fruit, fish, birds, dogs—sieving motifs into form and emotion. Long known for his poodles, creatures that lean toward abstraction, he now turns to flowers.

These newer works carry Kamijo’s idiom: biomorphic clusters, flat planes edged with line, thin-lipped horizons. They recall the botanicals of ukiyo-e prints, now with a newfound gravity. Indigo flesh. A sweetheart neckline. Pistils press forward. The flowers, long an emblem of fleeting existence, are open, dramatized, full of weight.