Ataru Sato

 

Works in this room

FATHER AND SON, 2019

  • Acrylic, pencil, ink, oil, collage on panel

  • 42 x 29,7 cm

  • Courtesy the artist Kosaku Kanechika and Office Baroque
    Photography: Keizo Kioku

HAND DOG, 2014

  • Color pencil, ink on paper

  • 20,2 x 26 cm

  • Courtesy the artist Kosaku Kanechika and Office Baroque
    Photography: Keizo Kioku

CAT FOOD, 2022

  • Acrylic, oil on cloth mounted on panel

  • 22,3 x 27,3 cm

  • Courtesy the artist Kosaku Kanechika and Office BaroquePhotography: Keizo Kioku

MASAO KUSAKARI, 2019

  • Oil on canvas

  • 33.3 x 24.5 cm

  • Courtesy the artist Kosaku Kanechika and Office BaroquePhotography: Keizo Kioku

BLUE CAT, 2019

  • Acrylic, pencil, ink, oil, collage on panel

  • 42 x 29,7 cm
    16.53 x 11.69 inches

  • Courtesy: the artist, Kosaku Kanechika and Office Baroque

    Photography: Keizo Kioku

DREAMER, 2018

  • Oil, ink on canvas

  • 33.3 x 19.3 cm

  • Courtesy the artist Kosaku Kanechika and Office BaroquePhotography: Keizo Kioku

About the work

I wonder why people paint.Although I am sure there are many reasons, I paint as if I were drinking water.I paint as if I were passing waste through my body.And no matter how hard I examine the painting, I can never really understand myself. Nevertheless, everything is a reflection of myself and so I will paint more and more.

-Ataru Sato 20th of March 2022

人はなぜ絵を描くのだろう。色々な理由があるだろうが、僕は水を飲むように絵を描く。排泄をするように絵を描く。それをあとからまじまじとみても、自分自身のことはよくわからない。しかし、全ては僕自身を写している。ますます絵を描いてゆくだろう。

-佐藤允 2022/03/20

About the artist

ATARU SATO (b. 1986, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is currently based in Tokyo. In 2009, he graduated from the Advanced Art Course in the Department of Information Design, Faculty of Arts and Design at Kyoto University of Arts and Design. The artistʼs major group exhibitions include “10000 Lives: The 8th Gwangju Biennale” (2010), “Yokohama Triennale 2011: OUR MAGIC HOUR ‒ How Much of the World Can We Know?” (2011), “Inside” (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014), and “Dojima River Biennale 2019” (Osaka, 2019). Satoʼs works have been acquired by the Takahashi Collection as well as by Louis Vuitton Malletier.

 
 

Ataru Sato