Compositions

Shuta Hasunuma's solo exhibition "Compositions" was held at Pioneer Works, a multi-purpose art space located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, from Friday, February 23rd to Sunday, April 8th, 2018.

This will be the artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, and will primarily feature new works created during his residency at the facility, which began in December 2019. As part of the opening event, the artist will perform a performance with tabla player Yu-Zhan, with whom he collaborated on the album "2 Tone."

Shuta Hasunuma's first solo exhibition in the United States, "Compositions," is centered around new works created during Pioneer Works' visual arts residency program, and is displayed across the second and third floor gallery spaces of Pioneer Works.

Hasunuma's wide-ranging musical activities span a variety of fields, from his own ensemble, "Hasunuma Shuta Philharmonic," to providing music for stage, dance, and film, as well as sound work centered on environmental and electronic sounds. He also collaborates with a variety of internationally active musicians. The roots of Hasunuma's inquisitive creative work lie in the contraction of sound in space and time, the placement of sound, and the visualization of sound, and he puts into practice the question: how can immaterial things such as sound and music be physically and physically exchanged between humans?

This involves creating situations and environments that bring together people of different generations, genders, races, etc., and Hasunuma's work is also an effort to re-evaluate what we call "sound" and "music." Through his diverse expressions, Hasunuma continues to explore new perspectives on the situations and structures surrounding current society.

Pioneer Works