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Satoshi Saikusa   Vanitas - de l'impermanence

2015 9/14 (Mon)-10/10(Sat)



Gallery Naruyama is pleased to present Satoshi SAIKUSA's exhibition Vanitas - de l’impermanence
Satoshi SAIKUSA is a photographer based in Paris. He is working with various medias include Vogue.
Since medieval period Vanity is one of the Japanese aesthetic senses and Japan has a tradition of finding beauty in transience. In the western arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. “VANITAS" is the Latin word means "vanity" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits.
Saikusa thinks "VANITAS" is different from sense of the vanity of life in the Buddhism. Though motif of VANITAS such as vanity, authority, beauty and ugliness, wealth, time are quite similar to earthly desires in the Buddhism.
We will introduce unknown side of Satoshi Saikusa include unpublished images with Fresson prints and traditional gelatin silver prints as well as the series of“ BON-NO ”which he cuts out and reassembles images.




Satoshi SAIKUSA   Vanitas - de l'impermanence
2015/9/14(Mon)-10/10(Sat)

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Gallery Naruyama
Matsuoka Kudan Building #205, 2-2-8 Kudan Minami, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0074
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[Vanitas3]  Fresson print  64㎝×94㎝  ©Satoshi Saikusa