Hiroyuki Doi: Tiny Circles: Gallery Two
Born in 1946 in Nagoya, Japan, Hiroyuki Doi, a former chef, started making art in the 1980s after the death of his younger brother from a brain tumor. What originated as a therapeutic requiem has since become a mysterious, self-renewing act of abstract mapping that can be re-contextualized in multiple ways. Doi’s practice—which he describes as each piece evolving spontaneously until it finds its form—is very much akin to improvisational music, taking off from a few basic riffs to be created as it happens. We can think of individual works as interconnected, fluid sequences that can take the shape of galaxies and cosmic dust formations, undulating cyclones, storms, and landmasses adrift; coral reefs, microscopic pools, strings of pearls, gurgling bubbles, fairy rings, explosions, and voluptuous vortices. However, similes are only temporary anchors in the artist’s vast proliferation of tiny circles.
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