Hiroyoshi Asaka: The Truth Of Illusions

In the first half of 2024, Hiroyoshi Asaka astonished audiences in Chicago, Tokyo and New York with his large marble works that appear indistinguishable from Styrofoam. Both in terms of their physical properties and their familiarity with daily life, hard, heavy marble and lightweight, readily available Styrofoam are true opposites. By using his unparalleled skills to transform that contradiction into a study of “illusion vs. substance,” Asaka questions the physical reality that our eyes perceive.