Shinya Sakurai choses an anti - iconic painting style, albeit with symbolic elements that return as mathematical symbols hidden within a geometric structure. Hearts, small crosses, elementary forms are constantly repeated as if to form a symbolic grid of the world. Above all, a very ancient technique, that of the shibori, in vogue around the Edo era, which consists in tying or manipulating the fabric and immersing it in a dye bath that creates a sort of abstract fantasy.
Shinya Sakurai
Artists
That of Sakurai appears as a strongly stylized and particularly rich analysis of the subtle structures from which reality is woven. His pai ntings with their strong tones are enlivened by a current of pop energy in a complex interplay of strongly contrasted and vivid, acid colours, magically harmonized with each other, increasing their power of alienation and symbolic strength.
Sakurai's is an act of sy mbolic re - ordering of the world through a process of de - contextuali zation of images and symbols from their original reference, bringing nature and the artificial world closer together.
Shinya Sakurai was born in Hiroshima in 1981 and lives in Turin since many years. His paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and Japan. Among the most recent exhibitions are: Artmark Gallery in Vienna (Austria), the Heis Gallery in Fukuoka (Japan), the Galerie Lattemann in Darmstadt ( Germany), the Paris Gallery in Yokohama (Japan), the Marco Cappell o Gallery in Turin (Italy), the Italian Cultural Institute in Osaka (Japan), the Maeda Hiromi Art Gallery in Kyoto (Japan), the San Domenico Foundation in Crema (Italy), the Caruso Gallery in Milazzo and Galleria Eidos Contemporary Images in Asti (Italy).