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In 1991 the artist exhibited in Milan at the Galleria Gariboldi and he immediately received attention from Corriere della Sera (30 June 1991): “…Sound of a color musician: whites, browns, pearl grays vibrating like notes which change color on the pentagram….” (Sebastiano Grasso). Enrico Gariboldi, who proposes him in the catalog notes: “Isn’t Shin-On perhaps the sound of the heart, the true sound, or maybe the fluctuating sound, the profound sound or the sound of the gods?…” “These sounds,” mentions Monique Sartor in the catalog, “as abstractions, come from tangible reality but they do not belong to it; they are not to be heard but ‘felt’, internalizing them and internalizing the space-time of the artist’s gesture…”

In 1993 the artist showed at the Sant’Apollonia art center in Venice. Enzo Di Martino said this in the catalog: “…the formal vibrations whose slight crinkling make up the pictorial texture of Matsuyama, those emotional quiverings that thicken the field of apparition of the ‘sound line’, that progressive laying down of layers which seems to indicate different levels of awareness in the work, bring out an event which is formal but also holy…”

In 1995, on the occasion of an exhibition at the same venue, Di Martino commented: “Matsuyama has moved out of the dimension of the painting with colored paper cylinders and an installation… the concept of art becomes an environment of art… with support staged by designer Makoto Kawamoto and music composed for the occasion by Massimo Mazotti” (Il Gazzettino, 6 July 1995). In the catalog for this show, Flaminio Gualdoni noted that “with this cycle of works… Matsuyama tends to confront – his desire – the naturalistic component of his image… the idea of an increasingly less axial and lowered horizon, opening to view an estranged pictorial sky…”

In 1997 a show by Matsuyama was planned specifically for the exposition area of the Schola dei Batioro e Tiraoro on the Canal Grande at S. Stae, staged by the designer Kosei Shireotani with musical intervention by Hiroshi Sato. “Painting as philosophy, philosophy as painting” was the title of the presentation by Elena Pontiggia in the catalog. “If everything is a number, everything is rhythm and, therefore, everything is music: coherently, Pythagoras thought the stars moved about in sidereal space creating a harmonious sound.” She mentions Kandinsky’s intuition that “color is an interior sound.” In Matsuyama’s work there is “knowledgeable experience.” With regard to color: “They are mental colors, introverted, noiselessly emotional in that they neither ring out nor shout, but the speak through silence…”

The Rocca Malatestiana at Montefiore Conca (Rimini) hosted a show of Matsuyama’s works in 1999. Silvia Pegoraro commented in the catalog: “the painter makes it possible for the body of the artist and of the spectator to identify themselves with the light-color-line-sound complex, which does not represent the human body; it does not make it present in the form… it is present in the matrix of the painting…The painting becomes a vehicle for a holistic experience which informs us about the relational character of the universe, on its connective structure, and its interdependence between infinite things-events, making it like a network of crystals.
To these considerations, Domizio Mori’s comments in the presentation for the exhibition at Sant’Apollonia in Venice in 1999 (staged by Makoto Kawamoto with music by Maurizio Pisani, Takashi Niigaki, Yoichi Sugiyama and Gabriele Manca) can be added: “markings that vibrate in a continual vital quivering like in Brownian motions.” With regard to the line which in various ways often divides the works of Matsuyama he points to “one of the fundamental characteristics of universal order: symmetry and exceptions in biological and inanimate things.” He goes on to say, “In the recent works, certain rhomboid-shaped forms make one think of either a wound…, biological intimacy, or a crack in a mineral surface to reveal an emerging mass of magma…” Writing of this same exhibition, Ermanno Krumm (Corriere della Sera, 12 July 1999) mentions “a taste for the rarefaction of materials… an ideal of art which unifies color and sound… people have been speaking about it since the beginning of the century as one of the great dreams of the avant-garde.”

And finally, in 2002 in an exhibition planned by Pier Luigi Senna at the Fondazione Matalon, Matsuyama continues his investigation of the mysterious sound of things. Chiara Gatti (La Repubblica, 25 May 2002) said, “background music accompanies the visitor… by the Japanese composer Kaisaku Ashizawa. Faithful friend of the painter, he wanted to undertake a journey with him through the universe of sound and the thousand shapes through which it can manifest. Poetry of the pentagram and lyrics made of paper and color are two faces of the same quest…”

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1 Enrico Gariboldi - In catalogo, Mostra “Galleria Gariboldi Arte Contemporanea” (Milano) june 1991

2 Sebastiano Grasso – Corriere della Sera (Milano) 30 june 1991

3 Nuova Breraarte – Mostra“Per incanto un’asta diversa” (Milano) dicember 1991

4 Monique Sartor – In catalogo, Mostra “ Priuli agli Scalzi” (Venezia) february 1992

5 Domizio Mori – Rassegna Artistica/ Culturale (Milano) march 1992

6 Sebastiano Grasso – In catalogo, Mostra “ Espace Takarashi” (Tokyo) november 1992

7 Enzo Di Martino – In catalogo Mostra “ Shin-On ‘93” (Centro S.Apollonia, Venezia) june 1993

8 Enzo di Martino – Il Gazzettino (Venezia) 13 july 1993

9 Giovanni Greto – La Nuova (Venezia) 05 june 1993

10 Maria Laura Bidorini – La Nuova (Venezia) july 1993

11 Sebastiano Grasso – Corriere della Sera (Milano) 29 august 1993

12 Riccardo Barletta – Rassegna Artistica /Culturale (Milano) september 1993

13 Rossana Bossaglia – In catalogo Mostra “Incar(n)tamento” Esibizione itinerante (Milano, Takefu, Osaka, Tokyo, Messina) 1993

14 Keiichi Hayase – Mainichi Shinbun ( Tokyo) 03 august 1994

15 Satoru Nagoya – The Japan Times (Tokyo) 14 august 1994

16 Pier Luigi Senna – Dentro Milano (Milano) ottobre 1994

17 Pier Luigi Senna – Tempo Sensibile (Milano) october 1994

18 Hideki Nakamura – In catalogo Mostra “Galleria Takarashi” (Tokyo) march 1995

19 Carmine Siniscalco – Mostra “ Studio S” (Roma) may 1995

20 Flaminio Gualdoni- In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On ‘95” (Centro S.Apollonia, Venezia) june 1995

21 Silvia Ippoliti – Japan Special “Stile Italia” (Milano) june 1995

22 Enzo Di Martino – Il Gazzettino (Venezia) 06 july 1995

23 Flaminio Gualdoni – Il Giornale (Milano) 13 july 1996

24 Fulvio Salaria – Buongiorno (Milano) october 1995

25 Flaminio Gualdoni – Mostra “Galleria Takarashi” (Tokyo) 1996

26 Michiko Yamaguchi – Nikkei Art (Giappone) sptember 1996

27 Michiko Yamaguchi – Attenir (Giappone) september 1996

28 Silvia Pegoraro – In catalogo Mostra “Fiorile Arte” (Bologna) dicember 1996

29 Elena Pontiggia – In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On ‘97” (Battioro S.Stae, Venezia) june 1997

30 Paola Marchetti – Mostra “Arte e Sport” (Venezia) june 1997

31 Paolo Rizzi/Enzo Di Martino – Il Gazzettino (Venezia) 9 june 1997

32 Michiko Yamaguchi – Geijutsu Club (Giappone) november 1997

33 Stefania Carrozzini – In catalogo Mostra “Studio D’Art” (Milano) april 1998

34 Angela Noya Villa – Eco (Milano) may 1998

35 Carmine Siniscalco – In catalogo Mostra “A.R.G.A.M.” (Roma) may 1998

36 Kazuhito Yui – Shin-Bijutsu Shinbun (Giappone) july 1998

37 Marina De Stasio – In catalogo Mostra “Misteriosa-mente” (Sommalombardo) september 1998

38 Marco Fragonaro – In catalogo Mostra “All’Ombra dei ciliegi” (Este) october 1998

39 Maurizio Festuccia- Format (Rieti) october 1998

40 Sebastiano Grasso – Corriere della Sera (Milano) 03 february 1999

41 Junko Katayama – Come Va (Milano) march 1999

42 Domizio Mori / Monique Sartor – In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On ‘99” (Centro S.Apollonia, Venezia) july 1999

43 Ermanno Krumm – Corriere della Sera (Milano) 12 july 1999

44 Silvia Pegoraro – In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On “ (Montefiore Conca, Rimini) august 1999

45 Domizio Mori / Maurizio Pisati – In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On” (Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Roma) january 2000

46 Akutagawa – Yomiuri Shinbun (Tokyo) 23 july 2000

47 Roberto Borghi – In catalogo Mostra “Misteriosa-mente in volo 2000” (Sommalombardo) september 2000

48 Enzo Di Martino – In catalogo Mostra “Shin-On’01” ( Spazio Proietto,Venezia) june 2001

49 Paolo Rizzi / Enzo Di Martino – Il Gazzettino (Venezia) 16 july 2001

50 Enzo Di Martino – Il Gazzettino (Venezia) 25 july 2001

51 Enzo Di Martino – In catalogo Mostra “Trittico 4 Sofitel” (Venezia ) december 2001

52 Yosko Vetrih – Primorski Onevnik (Gorizia) march 2002.

53 Germano Beringheli- Il Secolo XIX (Genova) 31 march 2002

54 Chiara Gatti – La Repubblica (Milano) 25 may 2002

55 Renzo Francescotti- In catalogo Mostra “Alpiarte 2002” Palazzo Trentini (Trento) september 2002

56 Julian Zugazagoitia – In Catalogo “ SHUHEI MATSUYAMA” Electa (Milano) dicember 2002

57 Claudio Cerritelli – In catalogo “shin-On” Gallery of modern and contemporary Art P.A.C. Palazzo Massari (Ferrara) marzo 2003

57 Gabriele Simongini – In catalogo 54° Prize Michetti Michetti Museum “Love for land” (Francavilla al mare ) luglio 2003