2024.11.19 Tue - 12.2 Mon
SAN BANCHO GALLERY is pleased to present Tada Satoshi's exhibition "Space Interwoven with Emotions."
The theme of this exhibition is to feel the sensation of emotions through Tada's motif (named Lureux).
Tada's Born series expresses what the heart feels like in each of his solo exhibitions.
In the first exhibition held last year, I depicted the beginning of a new feeling I had when I felt uncomfortable with my fate and chose a different path of my own volition.
This year marks the second year, and by gaining a heart, we will travel to new places and by repeating new experiences, we will recognize our emotions.
Depicting these countless never-before-experienced emotions leads to the title, "A Space Woven with Emotions."
In order to depict the second theme, the feeling of emotions, I observed the space woven by emotions.
Tada feels that emotions, apart from being expressed in joy, anger, sadness, happiness and color, also have height and depth.
Height is the feeling of rising and falling, such as soaring joy or deep sadness. Depth is the feeling of being close to something you like, and far away from something you dislike.
These numerous emotions that are not always uniform, and the vast and complex forms of emotions within our hearts, are called the emotional space.
Next, I aimed to depict a space woven with numerous emotions on a single canvas.
In addition to emotions, space can also change depending on factors such as what is present and the time that occurs.
In order to sense the subtleties of these added factors and express the space woven with countless emotions onto a single canvas, I needed to paint from both a concrete and abstract perspective.
The main piece, "Nobyakani," was created with this gap between concrete and abstract in mind.
The main piece, "Nobyakani," depicts the feeling of freedom of going on forever in a space that stretches out into the distance, while being enveloped in warmth, temperature, and humidity.
This work depicts the moment when, freed from the fate of the place where he was born, Leroux sets off on a journey to a new place, making it the starting point of this exhibition.
This is similar to the emotions experienced when traveling to a new place for the first time, such as when someone travels from the countryside to the city for the first time, or when someone travels overseas from Japan for the first time, or when someone travels from Earth to space for the first time.
Before starting to paint this work, Tada observed the vast plains and sky, the sky and atmosphere of various weather conditions, and the state of a large space with humidity and temperature in order to understand the things involved in the space. With reference to nature with such tremendous depth and size, he begins to express emotions with vast and complex shapes on one canvas.
After creating many works, it was his main work, "Nobyakani," that captured the sense of freedom that Tada now wants to express.
When you watch the film, I hope that you will have the opportunity to recognize your own emotions by connecting with the emotions that Lulu exudes in the film, and feel that sensation.
In order to express the many emotions that exist in space, the painting style in this exhibition moves between the concrete and abstract, which was born out of my experience studying abstract expressionism and the challenges I faced in expressing these works in this exhibition.
Abstract painting has a history in which various forms of abstract expression, such as German Expressionism and Cubism, have emerged and continued to influence each other.
Tada has long been inspired by the abstract works of Georges Rouault (1871-1958), Paul Klee (1879-1940), Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881-1973), Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), and Mark Rothko (1903- 1970), and because of his love of them, he has continued to study them since his university days.
While continuing to study, Tada never had the opportunity to have a theme that required abstract expression, and instead focused on concrete expressions such as the candles and starry skies in his Given series (2008-2021). However, when he tried to portray the feeling of the heart and emotions through the motif of L'Heureux, he became frustrated with the fact that he was unable to express it using concrete expressions alone.
In order to solve the problem of broadening the range of expression, I used what I had learned in the past to experiment with abstract expression, eventually arriving at a method of depicting the gap between the concrete and the abstract, which was necessary to depict the theme of this exhibition.
Furthermore, while I was painting this abstract work, I came to a new realization.
The trigger for this was that I received several comments from people who had liked my previous representational works that they preferred my new ones. Preferences will arise depending on the motif and style of painting, but Tada's theme of painting always remains the same: the way people perceive things changes depending on the person, even if they are trying to convey the same thing. This realization made me interested in the environment in which Japanese people can come into contact with art.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have become interested in art, but for Japanese people who have few opportunities to understand art, there are still few opportunities to become interested in abstract expressionism. This is due in part to the fact that Japan has nurtured a unique art style and the Japanese temperament, but it is also thought to be due to the fact that artists and galleries have not been able to create a bridge that can spark an interest in art and abstract expression.
Furthermore, after the Given series (2008-2021), in which Tada continued to paint concrete works, he has begun his new Born series (2020-2024), in which he creates a gap between the concrete and abstract, and he sees the possibility of creating a small bridge that will spark an interest in abstract expression.
Although this is a small bridge that only fans of Tada's work will notice, we hope that this exhibition will spark an interest in abstract expression.
Finally, we hope you enjoy this exhibition as you feel together with Leroux how your many deep and powerful emotions are being felt as you move back and forth between the concrete and abstract.
SAN BANCHO GALLERY
Sanbancho Gallery
Tada's first art book, "DeePop," was completed in May 2024.
This art book explains the works of the Given series (2008-2021), which Tada has been painting since 2008, and his newly started Born series (2020-2024).
This exhibition not only covers Leroux's journey, but also his thoughts on the figurative works that are connected to him, and chronicles his journey over the past 20 years. We hope that anyone who is interested will take a look.
Number of pages: 100 pages
Limited edition: 2,500 copies
Price: 3,300 yen (tax included)
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