Sho Kamizawa

This produces unprecedented and totally new outcomes each time since, of course, each individuality is different from the other. Sho Kamizawa takes the concept of representing the world and reworks it, listening to his feelings and the echo of his creative spark. What emerges is a world saturated with color where everyday elements are represented through large, flat color fields. There is little persistent detail but that is good: Sho represents a moment of everyday life, an instant of the many moments that make up a day. The artist, recounts the world with extreme clarity, making the instant of time comprehensible and recognizable even to those of us who, that precise moment, have never experienced it. And so it is that in "Encounter" all attention is placed at the center of the work. A girl is sniffing a flowering branch that hangs above her head. In this depiction there is fortuitous chance, there is a desire to tell about a real event reworked according to the artist's stylistic features. The flat backgrounds, the backdrop characterized by broad green brushstrokes, and the barely sketched physiognomy of the woman are all elements that content to translate what we are looking at into a precise moment. And moments, as we know, are not characterized by many details. In very short spans of time our brains focus on certain points of vision that have aroused interest. And the same is true of Sho's works. Works that distill the real by reworking the latter and performing an action of eliminating the superfluous to represent the feeling of the moment, the frugality of that second that will never return. Because every lapse of time is unique. There is no more mimesis, there is the image of an intimate and personal time.