Video: Flying over the remnants of civilization. Masakatsu Sasha Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In places futuristic and nostalgic, in places triumphant and tragic, the huge paintings of Masakatsu Sashie depict dying civilizations and against their background - strange planets slowly floating in the air and indifferently gazing at the remnants of their former power.
Besides the fact that Masakatsu Sashi's works make a strong visual impression, they also raise a number of questions. Do they depict the future of our planet or is it a very pessimistic view of the artist on its current state? And most importantly - is it really impossible to avoid the hopeless and gloomy future of our civilization, captured on canvases? Masakatsu does not answer any of these questions, but choosing in one of the interviews between an optimist and a pessimist, the artist settled on the latter option.
Masakatsu claims that all of his work is based on his own theory of the "balanced aquarium". Its essence is that each person lives in a confined space, limited by his place of residence and imagination. Each of us lives in our own "aquarium", occupies a very small area. And on each of these territories there is, on the one hand, selfishness and indifference, and on the other, order and happiness - the balance in the world depends on these factors.
From the angle of this theory, each planet-ball in the artist's paintings can be interpreted as a small individual aquarium, in which a person is comfortable and comfortable, but from which he cannot see the deplorable state of the world as a whole.
The artist deliberately does not depict people or nature in his paintings - only urban landscapes. The elements of the planets, according to Masakatsu, are sketched from different parts of his hometown and represent a kind of mixture of Japanese architecture from the post-war period and science fiction.
Masakatsu Sashi is an artist from the Japanese city of Kanazawa. For the first time, his work was talked about in 2005 after the Geisai Art Fair in Tokyo.
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