Sachiko Kazama Interview: Responding to the World from a Place of Resistance Against Rationalism [WHY ART]
Artist Sachiko Kazama discusses her transition from woodblock prints to oil painting.Summary
An interview with contemporary artist Sachiko Kazama, known for her striking black-and-white woodblock prints that critique modern society through diverse imagery. Ahead of her solo exhibition at the Hirosaki Brick Warehouse Museum, Kazama reveals her decision to experiment with oil painting for the first time.
This creative shift was inspired by her encounter with the works of French symbolist writer Villiers de l'Isle-Adam during a past residency in Aomori. The decadent and anti-rationalist themes in his writing resonated with Kazama's own long-standing sense of alienation from societal norms of "health" and "conformity."
While her woodblock process is highly planned and methodical, she seeks the spontaneity and unconscious expression offered by oil painting to better capture the romantic, irrational essence of Symbolism.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)