Juxtapoz Magazine – Naritaka Satoh’s Big “Reveal” @ GR Gallery, NYC

GR gallery is happy to existing Reveal, Naritaka Satoh 1st solo exhibition in the U.S. and with the gallery. Spreading about the total gallery room, the display will present fourteen artworks executed with the artist signature method combining acrylic and pencil on wood panel. Appositely conceived for the party, this new overall body of operates expands Satoh’s visual vocabulary with improved topics, colours and expressions and deepen his discourse on the introspection and duality of the human psyche and the complexity of the concealed symbolism. His very exceptional design and style Juxtaposes hyper sensible, completely balanced and controlled, black and white information, with howling and instinctive summary-expressionist like thick acrylic brushstrokes.

Naritaka Satoh’s artworks, imbued with enigmatic recollections, depict and take care of the contrast in between logic and emotion, pervasive in each individual solitary and social carry out. Summoning idealistic and classic tenacious poetic imaginaries, mixing it jointly with daring factual truth, Satoh generates profound nevertheless charming compositions, unbiased from rigorous anatomy and quantity, encapsuled in an unsure time interval. The title takes inspiration from and old Japanese saying: ‘Cover up what smells bad’. Quoting the artist words: ‘As the indicating goes, to be happy or displeased only with the good areas that have been launched into the globe, without having revealing inconvenient truths, is like wandering by means of a fictional entire world. Points are built up of all kinds of intertwining and balancing situations, which include those people that are favorable or unacceptable to oneself. We struggle, waver and wriggle in between the boundaries of all types of situations. The system is in no way noticeable to the human eye, but I think that by understanding the whole image, with all the things of the qualifications that go on inside of the fantastically geared up membrane, we can reside in the truth without having any falsehoods’.

Eros and Thanatos, order and anarchy, harmony and instability, consciousness and unconsciousness inevitably live together in any entity and the worth of discovering a harmony in involving these forces is what generates extraordinary minds and creations. Satoh’s designed his precedence to give a shape to this solved disconnection, masterfully depicting the solemnity of this splendid and serene spirit in a position to give the right area and to preserve beneath command the chaos that inhabit it. 

 Naritaka Satoh (Aichi Prefecture, 1980), graduated from Tokyo College of the Arts in 2006 and acquired an MFA in Layout at the similar College in 2008. Given that then he has been functioning on establishing the distinctive model that we can admire currently. His paintings are primarily targeted on portraits and continue to lifetime subjects that consequence in a fusion of drawings so in depth that could be mistaken for images, with a layered of acrylic abstract matière. His operates, which have a solid presence made by his sound competencies, have been attracting awareness and assistance from both inside of and outside the house Japan and have been exhibited thoroughly in Asia mostly and grew to become component of prestigious artwork collections all around the world.