Yoshinobu Sato Exhibition
Caelum Gallery
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Painter Yoshinobu Sato uses unevenly cropped paper covered with acrylic as his surface for his works, which resembles the grey roughness one would find on a slab of stone. With black paint as his only medium, the artist places dots, holes, spaces, and movement sparingly throughout his canvas, creating shapes without using any lines. Sato achieves a universal feeling of controlled chaos found both in nature and humanity through the bareness of his grey canvas and in the bold splatters of black paint, reminiscent of sumi-e and abstract expressionism.
Sato relies on the natural forces of dripping paint to emulate some of the complexities and frustrations that come with being an artist: where some of the best ideas come in your dreams, and no ideas come at all when you truly want them to. It would be a mistake to compare his painting techniques to that of Jackson Pollack’s, not simply because of their difference in style and scale, but because Pollack’s paintings were products of his emotional and mental expressions, whereas Sato’s works are inspired by concepts that are not so tangible in a conscious state. Sato does not attempt to fight for a form of expression; instead, he patiently lets the expression take its own form through the careful manipulation of gravity.
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Schedule
from September 15, 2015 to September 19, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-09-17 from 18:00