HIROSHI SATO

Hiroshi Sato was born in Gamagori, Japan. From the age of three to fourteen Hiroshi Sato lived in Tanzania, East Africa. During this period his world could be separated into three places. The first was the inside of the house; filled with stories of his parents, books, and movies. The second, was the outside world of an alternate culture and landscape. The third was the place his culture was supposed to be, Japan. It was a place that existed as a pseudo fiction in his head, only confirmed to be real by brief visits to Japan once a year.

Hiroshi Sato returned to Japan for high school, rearranging the three places around; the pseudo fiction becoming the real and the real becoming memory. Due to these turns of events, he would notice the only thing that stayed the same; the distance and interaction between our mind interfacing with the external world.

He is interested in creating work that frame the moments of our life in which this idea reveals itself to ourselves.

The works are constructed in a way to echo that fact, by using western painting (Richard Diebenkorn, Chuck Close, Edward Hopper, Matisse, Euan Uglow) methods, theories and Japanese painting (Ito Shinsui, Hashimoto Kansetsu, Tsuchida Bakusen) compositional philosophies. The artwork is neither attempting to fully adhere or reject either, this is done to reflect the experience of continually being exposed to separate but parallel aesthetic tastes due to how and where he grew up. It is impossible for him to measure the difference in his personal preference for either philosophies of picture making.