In his new body of works Hiroyuki Masuyama approaches the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and of James Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) using the medium of photography. The Japanese concept artist H.M. whose work has always been based on a compilation of many images honours both artists who did not paint landscapes in a realistic manner but composed them from several elements to create an idealistic site. Hiroyuki Masuyama located landscapes similar to the ones painted in the beginning of the 19th century and took around one thousand photos of several sites. He then compiled around 1000 photos to one mounted image and recreated the paintings in every detail, giving special attention to the pictorial atmosphere. Then the works were produced as lightboxes in the size of the original paintings. Even in his early photo and video works Hiroyuki Masuyama played with the concept of time and space. Masuyama tries to resume in one work the past, the present and the future. Time is important to him as the eternal cycle and the state of permanence. He takes for example one photo every day at the same time over one year, moving his camera one meter or turning it 1° . He then puts all 365 photos in a computer mounting one strip of each photo. The result is a lightbox of 30 x 15 x 200 cm showing a panorama view over 365 days. Also his sky panoramas are more than simple landscapes: During his flights Masuyama makes one photo every 20 seconds. Hundreds of pictures are then mounted to one whole journey. Similar to a painter, who is painting his view of an idealistic mountain on a blank canvas, the artist tries to leave the reality behind - in a way to take the viewer to a land of dreams, memory and fantasy. Through the perfect connection of the pictures Hiroyuki Masuyama creates a silent poetry of sensuality, which in its whole complexity is visible not until the second view.

After my many journeys around the world by plane, I decided to make a journey to the inner center of the world. I took hundreds of photographs in a stalactite cave in Spain and then combined these photos to create an image that also symbolise my inner self.

For us Japanese the blossoming season of the Magnolia tree and the Sakura cherry tree is very important. Thus I accompanied these trees for one year with my camera. I took one photo per day and then combined the photos, so that the images do not only show the blossoming, but also the appearance of the trees throughout the seasons.

During a tour through the alps, I took numerous pictures of various mountains. My imaginary mountain consists of 300 of those pictures, put together on the computer based on my memory and my archive.

During the course of one year, I photographed flowers in my environment, collecting 1500 different flower shots. By merging them, I created an imaginary meadow with different seasonal touches.

During these flights, I took one photo of the Earth through the window every twenty seconds.   Due to the plane´s motion, the camera "travelled" a couple of kilometers between each snap-shot. I later aligned the photographs on the computer, showing a panorama of the total distance of the journey.