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松枝 悠希  Yuki MATSUEDA

2024.11.02 – 2025.1.12

Shanghai

《Between Surface and Dimension》

Yuki MATSUEDA has finally arrived.

Over a decade ago, at an art fair curated by a Japanese friend, I came across a work that truly moved me—a piece in which the egg yolk appeared to jump right out of its shell. In that instant, I decided to bring it home.

Since then, from being his fan to collaborating with him, I’ve witnessed over ten springs, summers, autumns, and winters, yet his works remain boundary-breaking and forward-looking, always sparking new ideas. In his artistic world, you can be as free as you once were—no pandering, no compromising, and unburdened by society’s constraints—retaining a youthful spirit.

Autumn is my favorite season. Due to nearly full bookings, we have waited two or three years for this exhibition. I look forward to the new and playful works that will be unveiled this time.

This year, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a Korean author, Han Kang. The coincidence of her name with the river running through Seoul felt surprising yet fitting. After walking nearly 20,000 steps around New York to locate her books, I found that all copies of The Vegetarian, Human Acts, The White Book, and others were sold out citywide. It led me to reflect on why I only took an interest in her after she won the prize, as so many others do.

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About the artist

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Yuki Matsueda is known for his unique three-dimensional pop-out sculptures that are amusing and thought-provoking. Yuki Matsueda’s practice was born of an accident, his first work Super Egg in 2007 broke the plane of his traditionally two-dimensional work and unleashed the infinite energy of the egg escaping its shell. His practice involves making backing prints and then drawing the object out of its static world through a complex process involving PET casting and shaping. Through his art of liberating ordinary objects from boredom, and integrating witty humor in it, Matsueda hopes to break the barrier between fine art and design.

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