Contemporary Japanese painter
空呂野 Sorojono
The single gesture, the silence around it.
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About the Artist
Sorojono (b. 1974, Kanazawa) is a contemporary painter working at the intersection of traditional shodō and minimalist abstraction.
Trained in calligraphy from the age of six under his grandfather, a lay priest of the Sōtō Zen lineage, Sorojono spent his early twenties studying ink painting in Kyoto before withdrawing, at thirty, to a small house on the Noto Peninsula. It was during those years of solitude — facing the Sea of Japan in winter — that his visual vocabulary crystallized.
His paintings distill the world to three gestures: the enso, the vertical stroke, the solitary mark. Each canvas is completed in a single sitting, often in a single breath. What is absent matters as much as what is present. The small gold square recurring in his work is a private signature — a seal of silence.
Sorojono's work is held in private collections in Tokyo, Berlin, and New York. He continues to live and paint on the Noto Peninsula.
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Selected Works
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Exhibitions
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Inquiries
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Studio
Noto, Ishikawa, Japan
Representation
By private arrangement
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Terms & Conditions
Acquisition
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