Born 1984 in Ishikawa Japan
Completed master program in Art education, Fukushima University
Keita SAGAKI is an artist, who uses an enormous number of motifs to compose drawings and sceneries, which are seemingly so common that everyone would know.
Gaps between what we can see from a distance and what we can see nearby, inspire existing sense of view, and make us re-aware of that the reality we are currently facing with is unstable and in flux.
Main list of the solo shows : "Convertism"(2014, CASHI), "Obit"(2010, CASHI), "Birthday"(2008, CASHI), Main list of the growp shows : "CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNALE OF FUKUSHIMA 2014"(Kitakata city museum, 2014), "The 13th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art"(2010, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa), "Shell Art Awards Exhibition 2007"(2007, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo)
The work currently exhibited carries the motif of a kaleidoscope.
When looking into a kaleidoscope, a glittering and fluidly proliferating "raw" world opens up before you. It should be said that such an image is the source of life. But at the same time, the infinite repetition and obsessive perfection/completeness of it is, to me, strongly reminiscent of death. This series was produced in response to the kaleidoscope which encloses concepts of both life and death - imagery to which I am strongly drawn.