Tokuro sakamoto "Patern"

Tokuro Sakamoto Patern GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku January 21 (Sat.) - February 25 (Sat.)

GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku 〒 130-0014 東京都墨田区亀沢 1-7-15 1-7-15 Kamezawa Sumida-ku Tokyo 130-0014 Japan info@gallery-momo.com Tel : (03)-3621-6813 Fax : (03)-3621-6814

水面 / Surface 2016, Acrylic on Kumohada hemp paper 91.0 x 116.7cm JPY 1,020,000-

水面 / Surface 2016, Acrylic on Kumohada hemp paper 53.0 x 53.0cm JPY 450,000-

夜景 / Night View

2016, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

72.7 x 72.7cm

42.0 x 60.4cm

JPY 730,000-

JPY 430,000-

夜景 / Night View

2017, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

2016, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

42.0 x 60.4cm

43.0 x 59.0cm

JPY 430,000-

夜景 / Night View 2016, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper 130.3 x 194.0cm JPY 1,500,000-

夜景 / Night View

2016, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

2017, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

25.0 x 30.0cm

35.0 x 35.0cm

JPY 170,000-

JPY 250,000-

呼吸 / Breath 2016 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper 145.5 x 145.5cm JPY 1,320,000-

地図 / Map

夕景 / Evening View

2014 - 2016, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

2017, Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper

53.0 x 53.0cm

45.5 x 38.0cm

JPY 450,000-

JPY 320,000-

呼吸 / Breath 2016 - 2017 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper 145.5 x 145.5cm JPY 1,320,000-

呼吸 / Breath

2016

2017

Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper

53.0 x 53.0cm

42.0 x 60.4cm

JPY 450,000-

JPY 430,000-

呼吸 / Breath 2016 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kumohada hemp paper 162.0 x 194.0cm JPY 1,650,000-

呼吸 / Breath 2017 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper 100.0 x 100.0cm JPY 1,020,000-

呼吸 / Breath 2017 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper 112.0 x 145.5cm JPY 1,200,000-

ćĄ&#x153; / Cherry Blossom 2017 Acrylic and mineral pigments on Kochi hemp paper 72.7 x 72.7cm JPY 730,000-

桜 / Cherry Blossom

2017

Acrylic and mineral pigments on White hemp paper

30.0 x 30.0cm

JPY 200,000-

アフターイメージ / After Image

2012 - 2016

Acrylic and mineral pigments on White hemp paper

20.0 x 25.0cm

JPY 150,000-

エンドレスホリデイ / Endless Holiday 2016 Acrylic on Kochi hemp paper 33.4 x 33.4cm JPY 240,000-

GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Tokuro Sakamoto titled Pattern. In this exhibition, he will show about twenty paintings describe the landscapes with dots and lines like pattern. Sakamoto depicts the landscapes on Japanese traditional paper based on the photographs that he takes. Removing redundant elements from the views, his representational paintings became abstract paintings. The scenes in his works have the commonality and give the viewers the feelings that they have seen before, even though Sakamoto painted the particular places. After experiencing his works, the viewers might feel déjà vu to the scenes described electronic cables, crosswalks, playgrounds, and natures. Sakamoto consciously attempts to interact with the viewers and connect the past to the present through his works. The paintings of Sakamoto are patterns like the Japanese traditional painting by Hehachiro Fukuda who painted water surface just by describing the ripples. His paintings, however, have a sign of life and reality from the depth of paintings. This is because the artist sees the daily activities of people who might be on the behind of the views and give their sign to the paintings. Sakamoto attempts to avoid the expression that enforced ego and keep his spiritual state nothingness like Zen. The description invites the viewers into the world of his works and provides the feeling of nostalgia by inspiring their memories and sympathy to his works. Tokuro Sakamoto lives and works in Yamanashi, Japan. He received a B.A. in Japanese Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts and studied Nihonga (Traditional Japanese Painting) at Hayami Institute of Arts. Combining acrylic paints and the traditional Japanese papers, Sakamoto successes to establish his won world in the paintings with the flat surface that is one of Japanese painting signatures. Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art owns his works in the permanent collections. This is his sixth solo exhibition in the gallery.

Artist Comment I feel that the landscapes I’ve seen in my daily life appear as paintings. On the other had, some times I feel the patterns around me look like abstract paintings. Whether natural or artificial, I’m interested in the repeated rhythm, the repetition, and the overlapping. My paintings are works to find small beauties in the nature forms accidentally shaped and the artificial forms shaped with lines and the rules. We already have the memories of various landscapes and paintings even before we encounter the new landscapes and the new paintings. I think many people see them while linking their countless memories. Always, I paint the world I know and exist around me. I attempt to express the point of views how we see the world. Trying to make an empty space in the center of my paintings, I create the paintings with the derivative points of views from the behind of the landscape I look at. Tokuro Sakamoto, 2016

作品に関するお問い合わせは下記までご連絡下さい。 Please contact Momo Sugita about the exhibition and works.

GALLERY MoMo Ryogoku 1F 1-7-15 Kamezawa Sumida-ku Tokyo 130-0014 Japan

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