Sisyu
Sisyu is a Japanese artist heir of SHO, calligraphy, one of the oldest Japanese aesthetic traditions, which boasts a history spanning 1300 years. With her technique, Sisyu fuses Japanese calligraphy with various artistic media, such as sculpture, multimedia arts and painting.
In 2014, Sisyu participated in the exhibition at the Carousel Du Louvre, organized by Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was awarded Gold Prize and Jury’s Prize Gold Award that the invitation by Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts as a Guest of Honor Artist for the exhibition in 2015 followed.
In 2017, then Emperor and Empress of Japan visited the artist’s exhibition at the Ehime Prefectural Museum in Matsuyama.
Techniques from the Renaissance age in Europe inspired this calligraphy’s creation process. Combining four elements such as Chinese ink and pigments (gold, sulfur) gives the calligraphy both the gravity and robustness of Western tradition and the power of massive concentration to write up various strokes with a brush of Oriental tradition.
This combination expands another world in this calligraphy and the letter appears to come forward. This is the “Calligraphy of another world made by the collaboration of Western and Eastern traditions.”
Hokota, located in Ibaraki prefecture, is blessed with wide and flat land and produces high-quality vegetables and fruits.
When Sisyu works on her artwork, she leaves a convenient urban area and stay in the great nature of Hokota. She cuts off all contact with others by turning off the PC, putting off a watch and makes herself concentrating only on the tip of the brush. During her stay, she keeps a plant-based diet to avoid killing. Her artworks are born in this concentrated creation camp.
• Commissioned to inscribe a poem written by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan (2018)
• Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress visited the Sisyu Exhibition (2017)
• Their Imperial Highnesses Prince and Princess Akishino visited the Sisyu Exhibition (2017)
• Gold Award, Exhibition & Design Category, Japan Pavilion, Expo Milano (2015)
• Guest of Honor Artist, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA), France (2015)
• Gold Prize & Jury Gold Prize, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA), France (2014)
• Selected as “Representative Artist of Japan,” Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA), France (2014)
• G1 Next Generation Leader Award (2013)
• Design, Art & Culture Award, Laval Virtual, France (2012)
• Special Commendation by the Minister of Defense of Japan (2012)
• 5th Teshima Yukei Award (2010)
