Satoshi Sakamoto
Artist StatementI grew up in northeastern Japan. I feel that the culture here is unsophisticated and alive with the natural beauty of the land. It steers me to the ancient primitive memories embedded in my mind. I seldom draw humans. My paintings suggest the experience of facing nature and then our bodies feel like transforming into other surrounding lives. I set out to create a phenomenon on the canvases with mainly primary colors. First of all I try to maximize the meaning of red fully in anger and mercy. I think that red cautions us against the sacrilege of human ego disregarding nature. Once I thought about the meaning of the red shrines. I imagined that red was necessary to bring out the karma between humans and nature. I think it is also a contrast between our red blood and the green forest, or internal nature and external nature. It is a reversible relationship through struggle and harmony. Impressionistic art style which I began to study and named it Sur-naturalism, is based on the growing movement of nature, or pure shapes and colors beyond every prejudice of human society. Beyond the psychic symbols,the form itself is a creative process or intuitional substance that all people of the world can share its sense without regard for their language. Sur-naturalism might be regarded as the conservative reformism which connotes succession from the 20th century. Also,it is close to the ancient design and the recollection of the Renaissance. I think my paintings have the potential to expand to three dimensions kind of like architecture. The pictures you can see in my profile are a beginning of the excavation for the unknown. I will report discoveries from now on. Member DataMembership: senior member since Aug. 28, 2008 |











