{"id":958078,"date":"2026-11-09T10:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958078\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T10:26:17","slug":"suspended-cables-and-vending-machines-stand-out-in-cevos-tokyo-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/958078\/","title":{"rendered":"suspended cables and vending machines stand out in cevo&#8217;s tokyo paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEVO DEBUTS SLOW DRIP painting series AT GOYO GALLERY IN TOKYO<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Argentine artist Cevo (Sebastian Scaglione) presents Slow Drip, a solo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/exhibition-design\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a> of acrylic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/illustration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">paintings<\/a> on linen debuting at Goyo Gallery in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-tokyo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tokyo<\/a> from October 31st to November 21st, 2026. Sourced from the artist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/photography\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photographic<\/a> research across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/architecture-in-japan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japan<\/a>, the series examines the tectonic layers and infrastructure of mundane Japanese cityscapes, narrow alleys, vending machines, utility cables, commercial signboards, and compact storefronts, by deliberately removing all human figures from normally dense urban environments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/cevo-removes-people-from-japanese-cityscapes-in-slow-drip-6-6abcce6986f3c.jpg\" alt=\"cevo removes people from japanese cityscapes in slow drip 6\" width=\"818\" height=\"1015\"\/>Cevo, Otoky N23, 2026, acrylic on linen, 120 \u00d7 150 cm | all images \u00a9Cevo<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>overhead cables and vending machines define Tokyo paintings<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The compositions originate as composite digital montages assembled from multiple on-site reference photographs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cevoss.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Artist<\/a> Cevo alters contextual elements and removes pedestrian traffic before translating the adjusted layouts onto linen canvases. Executed entirely in acrylic, the painting process unfolds in successive passes: primary tonal values and geometric masses are blocked out first, followed by incremental layers of micro-architectural joinery, typography, and weathering effects. Comprising 13 works, Slow Drip frames empty municipal infrastructure as an independent subject, highlighting the graphic density and spatial rhythms of everyday urban fabric.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"suspended cables and illuminated vending machines stand out in cevo's japanese cityscape paintings - 1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/cevo-removes-people-from-japanese-cityscapes-in-slow-drip-5-6abcce6986efb.jpg\" width=\"818\" height=\"1013\"\/>Cevo, Otoky N22, 2026, acrylic on linen, 80 \u00d7 100 cm<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/cevo-removes-people-from-japanese-cityscapes-in-slow-drip-10-6abcce698702b.jpg\" alt=\"cevo removes people from japanese cityscapes in slow drip 10\" width=\"818\" height=\"1039\"\/>Cevo, Otoky N18, 2026, acrylic on linen, 80 \u00d7 100 cm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CEVO DEBUTS SLOW DRIP painting series AT GOYO GALLERY IN TOKYO \u00a0 Argentine artist Cevo (Sebastian Scaglione) presents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[461,7832,449,458,459,64,63,460,134,1682,20168,8212],"class_list":["post-958078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture-in-japan","tag-architecture-in-tokyo","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition-design","tag-illustration","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}