Title: Sato Naoki Exhibition “Unexplored Tokyo: There, It has grown”
Period: April 30 (Sun.) – June 11 (Sun.), 2017
Venue: 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Main Gallery
Entry: General 800 yen, Senior/Student 700 yen, Free for high school students and younger
Organizer: It Has Grown Project Committee
NAOKI SATO
Born in Tokyo in 1961. After graduating from the Hokkaido University of Education, he studied the sociology of education and language at Shinshu University, and also studied painting under Mokuma Kikuhata at Bigakko.
In 1994, he was appointed Art Director of the inaugural Japanese WIRED magazine.
1998 Founded ASYL inc.
2003-10 Produced art, design and architecture events at Central East Tokyo (CET).
2010 Involved in the establishment of 3331 Arts Chiyoda and its start-up as design director.
He has been recognized with numerous national and international awards and his work is in permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He shifted his focus to drawing through the art project Trans Arts Tokyo, which started in 2012, and went on to participate in the Odate/Kita-Akita Arts Festival 2014 and others.
Head of Design Projects, Sapporo International Art Festival 2017. Design Director, 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Lecturer, Bigakko. Professor, Tama Art University.
There, it has grown.
When I saw Naoki Sato’s drawings at his exhibition “Ogikubo Undiscovered”at Rokujigen, the energy that rose from those plants sent my head spinning.
Every time I see the assemblage of this work that has continued since that time, I absorb strength from the image of those monochromatic plants.
This drawing of plants, drawn from a tool (charcoal) that itself is made of plants, delicately unearths the power of plants that I take in daily.
Further, a secret belonging to the plants born long before human beings is hidden within.
Scattering their seeds through the air, these plants are fulfilling a purpose to“grow there”.
“There”could suggest our environment, nation, locality or even blood relations.
The concept of place and life brings to mind a certain fate. Here, at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, signs of life rustle to the surface.
Director Miharu Kanagami
[Exhibition Production]Director: Miharu Kanagami/Communication Director: Atsuko Yamamoto/3331 Arts Chiyoda
[Venue Production]Spacial Composition and Production: Yasunori Ikunishi/Lighting Design: Go Ogoma/Acoustic Design: Nobu Ikeda/Programming: Tomohito Wakui/Recording: Makoto Oshiro/Sound: KUKNACKE/Song: Yuko Ikema/Technical Cooperation: Kei Komachiya/Cooperation: Gaku Todoroki (Dui)/3331 Arts Chiyoda
[Website Prodction]Toshio Kina(DPGM)