Naha City
Satoshi Osada Satoshi “HARMONY/MASHUP/NEUTRAL”
- Art / Exhibition
- Real-life event
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Harmony means “harmony,” and mashup means “mixing.” Also, as a musical term, mash-up means “a technique of synthesizing two or more songs into one song”. While listening to electronic music and drawing that image in a picture, I have expressed harmony by superimposing color surfaces. Over the past few years, I've been drawing with “the technique of compositing two or more pictures into one picture.” In addition to the meaning of “neutral” and “neutral,” neutral also has the meaning of “achromatic” or “ambiguous color.” Using a lot of ambiguous colors, she draws with an intermediate composition between abstract and figurative, and an intermediate expression between painting, illustration, and design. Now that we are living in a world situation where war and terrorism continue, I feel that “harmony” and “mixing” are effective measures for acting from a neutral point of view.
Osada Satoshi (Osada Satoshi)
Born in 1980 in Shizuoka Prefecture
Lived in Tokyo since 2000
Graduated from Kokugakuin University Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophy in 2004
Lived in Okinawa Prefecture from 2013
Major solo exhibitions:
2017 “Floating Heads” Yorokobito Gallery, Nishi-Ogikubo
2013 “Superimposed Microcosmos -Microcosmos Superposed-” GALLERY MoMo Projects, Roppongi
2009 “Microcosmic Chaos” FARM the Salon for Art, Tokyo by Hiromiyoshii, Kiyosumi
2003 “The World of Electronic Music -Electronic Music World-” TKGY at lammfromm, Yoyogi
Main group exhibitions:
2017 “Scenes of the Man in the Middle” Gallery Athos, Naha
2015 “Fake the Choice” Billiken Gallery, Minami Aoyama
2010 “Clay Exhibition -Post Klee-” Higashinakano Walk 1, Higashinakano
2009 “NEXT DOOR MIX EXHIBITION” T&G ARTS TOKYO, Roppongi
Awards:
Selected for “The Choice” x “Merlot” in 2019
Selected for “Wonder Seed 2007” in 2007
Selected for the “26th Graphic Art Hitotsubo Exhibition” in 2006
2003 “GEISAI #3” Tomio Koyama Gallery Award
Both materials and content are drawn by intentionally incorporating elements such as paintings, illustrations, designs, etc. I think my painting can be called a “middle man” because elements such as painting, illustration, and design are mixed. Depending on the viewer, it is drawn in a way that raises questions such as “is this a painting, an illustration, or a design”, “how is it drawn with what kind of art materials,” “what is it drawn with,” and “what is it drawn with what intention.” Among the masters of the 20th century who are now safe to call them Old Masters, such as Paul Klee, Sonia Delaunay, Rodchenko, etc., they learn from art materials and the feats of artists who have crossed genres, and are drawing pictures while incorporating awareness of the issues of this era in which they live.