Shichiro Enjoji

SHICHIRO ENJOJI (Kitakyushu, Japan, 1950)
"Cylinder in axonometric perspective", 1982.
Gouache on paper.
Signed and dated.
Measurements: 98 x 70 cm; 104 x 74 cm (frame).

He studied at the Suidobata Academy in Tokyo and with the painter Ito Teixo. In 1974 he moved to Barcelona and continued his apprenticeship in Lonja, in the School of Fine Arts of San Jorge and in the Academy of mural painting of Sant Cugat del Vallès. He had his first solo exhibition in 1977, in Barcelona, and has successfully competed in various competitions: in 1979 he won the Joan Miró drawing prize and in 1980 he was a finalist in the third International Biennial of Barcelona. The surface of his paintings is decomposed into various geometric figures, as if they were schematic perspectives, and tinged by very livid intonations. Although occasionally, he has also worked in ceramics. The search for figurative representation from a fragmented and broken art was an artistic creation that was promoted after World War I, when it no longer made sense for art to be governed by the millenary laws of perspective, realism and composition. Instead, a broken, destroyed art that broke free from the bonds imposed by art history was expressed by important artists, such as the Frenchman Robert Delaunay and the Italian Gino Severini, two of the pioneers of abstract and futurist art, respectively, during the first half of the 20th century.