With "Corpus Painting", Semiose éditions is launching a new collection of published works dedicated exclusively to painting. Each hard-bound, 48-page, coffee table style volume will focus on a precise set of paintings and will include a text in English and French signed by a prominent figure from the world of art. This series is an invitation to delve into the painting medium and gain insight into a particular series of works, while contemplating a fascinating succession of images with the same passion and devotion one might have for altarpieces or painted icons.

Hiroshi Sugito is painter of silence. With his canvases, he creates sparse decors conducive to chimeras and fantasies. Despite certain discernable motifs, an atmosphere of mystery pervades his paintings, offering up complex enigmas to be untangled by the spectator. To achieve this hazy transparency, Sugito alternates layers of acrylic and dry pigments, using a palette of delicate tones. He composes his painting using geometric forms as structuring elements, the principles of symmetry and skewed perspectives that further stylize his subjects, imbuing them with a particular theatricality.