EXHIBITION

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Satoshi SOMEYA specializes in lacquer in the doctoral course of Kyoto City University of Arts. His works are kitschy sculptures that are designed to look like animals and monstrous beasts in his own sense using the traditional techniques of lacquer. 
His main interests are “images, memories and crossed identities”. He expresses the relationship between his present and past inside him. 

This exhibition is titled “Okemono”.
He is fascinated by the beauty of form that the creature has, and continues to make the lacquer works in the motif of creatures. He lived in Indonesia for six years in childhood and there human-beings and animals are very close to each other. This background has had a great influence on his work of recent years. 

There are various ways of producing designs on lacquer ware, such as makie, where a pattern drawn in lacquer is sprinkled with metal or colored powder; urushie, where the pattern is done in colored lacquer; chinkin, where the lacquer is scored with pattern lines and gold-powder is then rubbed into the lines; and raden where shell or pieces of precious metals are set into or on the lacquer.
While he uses these traditional techniques, he paints vulgar things and uses ready-made articles. He always makes works, like a child, under the impulse of curiosity.

In this exhibition, we show the lacquer works and the drawings.
We hope you will enjoy his art world.

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Satoshi SOMEYA “Okemono”

2009年8月4日(火)〜8月29日(土)