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Shinya Sakurai:
marks and traces
opening April 6, 2024 4 – 7 p.m. and through June 22, 2024
light games, deep and dark semblances, revelatory symbols, dazzling stars,
hypnotic traces and structures between real and imaginary
The exhibition “marks and traces” marks a recurrence in the career of Japanese artist Shinya Sakurai (Hiroshima, 1981), known for his iconic, hermetic and abstract language: 20 years since his arrival in Turin, the city where he has been sharing his life and work with Osaka since 2004.
In these latest canvases of his, fluid marks and geometrizing compositions leave trails that, like footprints, trace a personal path, pregnant with new clues.
The artist abandons colorful and iridescent geometries to devote himself to different plays of light, deep and somber semblances, revealing an ever-changing contemporaneity. Indeed, the events of recent times have left unmistakably dense and indelibly charged traces and marks on his canvases, revealing symbols of the complexity of the present.
The artist chose velvet as the medium for all the works on display, to express precisely the seriousness of the times, but also an elegant and essential base.
On these monochrome surfaces, however, fluid brushstrokes, made with oil paints, resins and translucent glues, emerge to form glimpses of light and dazzling stars, illuminating and evoking harmonious symmetries, symbols of trust and hope for the future.
Shinya Sakurai’s compositions float in a deep space animated by symbolic signs and traits, hypnotic traces and structures capable of evoking tense atmospheres between the real and the imaginary, always emotionally and visually engaging.
On the same date and time, the exhibition “Small Box of Crystals” by Japanese artist Yoshiko Suzuran opens in Tomdesign‘s spaces adjacent to the gallery at 73 Corso San Maurizio.
