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Experiences of the Anomalous - Tetsuya Satoh and Macoto Murayama

"Experiences of the Anomalous" is the exhibition of two Japanese artists, which offer two different approaches to production of the Strangeness. Tetsuya Satoh and Macoto Murayama - following their own methods - turn the experience of daily things into something unusual or even frightening. Tetsuya "implants" in banal city landscapes metal figures, which reflect the surrounding landscape. Murayama creates "Inorganic Flora" presenting the images of different plants in the way they look like highly technical devices with electro-mechanical content. "Experiences of the Anomalous" offers to the viewers another look on usual things triggering their own experiments with turning ordinary things and landscapes into oddities.

佐藤哲也

1959
Born in Tokyo
1977
Kanagawa Engineer School, Industrial Design Course, B.A.

Solo Exhibitions

1991
Solo Exhibition, Yokohama Motomachi Elisman Residence, Yokohama
2009
Pearl Exhibition, Enoshima Gallery-T, Enoshima

Group Exhibition

1991
Kanagawa Art Exhibition, Kanagawa Art Museum, Kanagawa
2009
Young Artist Japan, Tagboat, Tokyo

村山誠

1984
Born in Kanagawa
2007
Miyagi University, Information Design Dept., Spatial Design course, B.A.
2008
A member of The Japanese Association of Botanical Illustration
2009
Institute of Advanced Media Art and Sciences (IAMAS), Media Expression Dept., completed.
2009-
2010
Researcher at IAMAS

Solo Exhibitions

2011
"Inorganic flora", Frantic Gallery, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2010
"2010 FRANTIC UNDERLINES", Frantic, Gallery, Tokyo
2009
"Exhibition of Objects Under Observation"(with Toshitaka Mochizuki), art project frantic, Tokyo
2009
"My Favorite Things, Unseal Contemporary and art project frantic Joint Exhibition", Tokyo
2009
"Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2009", Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery, Tokyo
2009
"PLAYING BACK SURFACE Ⅱ - digital images of contemporary art - ", Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Civic Gallery, Aichi, Japan
2009
"IAMAS 2009", Softopia Japan Center Builiding, Gifu, Japan
2008
"OGAKI BIENNALE 2008", Takaya-cho Underpass, Gifu, Japan

Awards

  • Asia Digital Art Award

Important Private Collections

  • Pigozzi Collection, Geneva

Bibliography

  • Sonia Zjawinski, "Cut Flowers", WIRED Magazine, U.S.A., 2010
  • Rodion Trofimchenko, "Time as an Object of Art", Japan –Lives and Styles -, Embassy of Japan in Russia, 2010
  • PREMiERE ViSiON catalogue, France, 2010
  • "The Technical and The Poetic", INSPIRATIONS Magazine, MAISON & OBJET　PARIS, France, 2010
  • Focus Magazine, Poland, 2010
  • Low Carbon Leader Initiative, United Nations Conference leaflet, 2010
  • Abraham Alonso, "El Jardin Digital", Muy Interesante, Spain, 2010
  • Asia Digital Art Award 2008 Exhibition Catalogue, Japan, 2008