“I benefit from the freedom to form the clay straight with my arms… creating shapes that categorical spontaneity,” says Yu Maeda. Based mostly close to Tokyo, the artist started experimenting with ceramics after a profession centered on portray, when he started reworking animals and imaginary beings into vibrant, mild sculptures.
Maeda is influenced by the daring traces and graphic iconography of pop artwork, combining summary types and conventional Japanese imagery in eclectic works. Skulls, birds and different creatures recommend a sacred or religious dimension.
The artist's totem items mix concepts associated to ecosystems, the cycles of nature and geometry, together with timeless motifs similar to botanicals, bugs and the solar. As if lately unearthed with their brilliant pigments intact, his sculptures nod to historic cultures, our respect for nature, and our dependence on different animals and the setting to not solely survive however thrive.
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