日本藝術家西野壯平以他直接而巨量的拍攝與拼貼聞名。西野運用自己在不同城市旅行、遊走中所拍攝的數千張照片，依著行走的路線以城市的地圖為界，逐一拼構完成一座座融合藝術家本人情感、記憶的虛構「城市」。西野壯平使用大量的照片拼貼成壯闊的自然景觀與城市俯景，如使用了三、四百卷底片拍攝再組合的聖母峰作品《Mountain Line ”Everest”》，或重建東京、倫敦、耶路撒冷、阿姆斯特丹等都市地理的《Diorama Map》系列。對藝術家來說，旅程中所收集的影像碎片並不完整。透過重複的拍攝與拼貼，他將對城市的自身記憶融入，使影像不再只是純粹的紀錄。藝術家最具代表性的《Diorama Map》系列中所呈現的視角與造型，可回溯至日本古代的手繪地圖，打破攝影視覺透視的美感，呼應了東方山水畫的散點透視，以及其所對應的宇宙觀。西野壯平目前在靜岡生活與創作，曾在美國舊金山當代美術館展出個展「New Work: Sohei Nishino」（2016），也曾在波隆那MAST Foundation、東京21_21Design Sight、大邱攝影雙年展等單位展出，作品獲Louis Vuitton基金會、舊金山現代美術館、休士頓美術館、東京都寫真美術館等重要機構典藏。
Sohei Nishino is known for his magnificent photographic collages. Through the incorporation of thousands of photographs captured during his visits and journeys to diverse locations, he masterfully recreates these "fictional" cities, imbuing them with the artist's personal memories and emotions. Nishino often uses a voluminous number of photos to collage to form natural landscapes and urban panoramic views, such as the Everest work "Mountain Line ‘Everest’", which uses three or four hundred rolls of negatives to shoot and recombine, or rebuild Tokyo, London, Jerusalem, "Diorama Map" series of urban geography such as Amsterdam. For the artist, the image fragments collected during the journey are not complete. Through repeated shootings and collages, he integrates his own memories of the city so that the images are no longer just pure records. The perspectives and shapes presented in his renowned "Diorama Map" series can be traced back to ancient Japanese hand-painted maps that breaks the typical photographic vision. The beauty of perspective echoes the scattered perspective of oriental landscape paintings and the corresponding cosmology. Sohei Nishino currently lives and works in Shizuoka. His was exhibited at important institutions such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art(solo exhibition “New Work: Sohei Nishino”); MAST Foundation, Bologna; 21_21Design Sight, Tokyo; Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu. Nishino’s work is also collected by Louis Vuitton Foundation; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and other institutions.