Bookstein Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent sculpture by Hiroyuki Hamada. This is the artist’s sixth show with the gallery.

I don’t really consider myself a ‘creator’ in a strict sense. It’s more like finding the work by letting things happen, struggling through trials and errors, or simply by accidents. It’s humbling and reassuring at the same time. As if art is a path to encounter the mystery of the Universe itself: As if to show us a glimpse of life itself, which finds a home in the most adverse conditions: As if to liberate us from social imperatives which can bind us to a point of impossibility.

(Hiroyuki Hamada, East Hampton, NY, 2025)

Executed over the last five years, the sculptures in this exhibition are created from layers of plaster that are built-up then shaved down and built up again. The phenomenological volumes are largely biomorphic and most often an amalgamation of geometric solids that invite the viewer to walk around the works. Closer inspection reveals surfaces that show the marks of human labor – indented drill marks, inlayed resin and painted bands – and attest to the artists’ origins as a painter.

Hamada’s work often presents itself to the viewer in seemingly opposing dualities: archaic and futuristic, natural and industrial, austere and inviting. Indeed, the sculptures are as evocative as they are otherworldly, and yet, it is this seemingly polemic relationship that drives the artist’s practice. Hamada explains that within his studio he strives “to find fine balance in elements to see things being harmonized, opposing elements coexisting in meaningful ways, richness and warmth being born out of raw materials.”