Nobu Hozumi

The elements that populate our days are recognizable here but transformed into something else: bricks and concrete that go to build a new world, a new city. Nobu grasps the real and transforms it, disintegrating the latter and then sublimating it into something new. This city, built through planes, mirrored elements and colors that follow one after the other and one inside the other is the emblem of the art matured by the artist. Shifting our gaze we find ourselves in another world. Perhaps it is a space that is part of the city of emotions or it is in a different place altogether. Only the artist knows the truth. "Chilly Place" is a place where the below and above lose their connotations to know each other and merge, creating representative laws and unseen views. And so it is that the silhouette of a house characterized by a television antenna and skeletal silhouettes of railings is reflected in the sky. There is no above, there is no below. What we see is another reality. What we are observing in amazement is a space that twists the rules of physics and the four canonical dimensions to embrace laws of its own. "Chilly Place" is a cold place, characterized by bluish tones and large glass walls that reflect the surrounding space, creating an effect of estrangement. Yet, imagining ourselves leaning against that railing that wraps around the house, we can sense tranquility and peace. There is no noise, everything is muffled, and the cold, though biting, does not penetrate our bones. It is a still place in its natural stillness, it is a calm and peaceful space where our thoughts intersect with the multiple planes of representation. Nobu Hozumi creates photographs that are not photographs; they are literally new worlds waiting to be discovered.