TAB Event - Satoshi Ohno "Prophet"

Satoshi Ohno "Prophet"

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At Tomio Koyama Gallery
Media: Painting, Installation, Art Party

Satoshi Ohno's works embrace themes such as the contact and fusion between nature and artifact, closed atmospheres, and a reconsideration of the sense of space that governs relations between nature and the self. During the Koshikijima Art Project, in which he participated in 2004, he actually lived on a subtropical island in Kagoshima for a while. Then he visited a primeval forest in Hokkaido, Cayman Island in the Caribbean, and Hawaii, before moving his base to Fuji-yoshida, where he has been making paintings, sculptures, photos and sand drawings in which he recreates the primeval forest in his thoughts. These works vividly reflect an almost ritualistic sense of a return to nature.

At "The Echo" exhibition at ZAIM in Yokohama last year, he attempted an exhibition of the "very personal theme of self-portraits based on wombs that link to the primeval forest as a large mother's body." His self-portraits transcend boundaries of gender. Round prisms scattered around them seem to call out to viewers who happen to stray off into the forest. It seems as if the jungle as a womb in a large mother's body has appeared there.

On display at this exhibition will be a large-scale 5m high painting that makes full use of the two floors of the gallery.