Artist

笑達
(SyoTatsu)

笑達は、2001年から京都の路上で似顔絵を描き始め、18年間正面から人と向き合い続けてきました。そんな中、生まれ故郷和歌山の山間部への移住を考え、ある土地と出会います。そして、不思議な一夜を経験することになります。ある日眠りにつくと、笑達の夢に山の主たちが現れました。山の主たちは相撲を取り、仲間や大地と戯れていました。その風景は、目を覚ました笑達の心に残り続けました。妻や友人からの勧めもあり、笑達の制作は、その夢から感化された絵画へと変化していきます。

笑達の制作は、土や藍、べんがら、墨や炭など、自身の生活素材を活用します。日本画や洋画という概念に縛られず、自身を置く山の環境下で日々得るインスピレーションで、あの日見た夢の続きを紡いでいるのです。時には描いた絵を土に埋め、水で洗うこともあります。その様に生まれた作品は時間経過と共に、自然な形が現れてきます。笑達は自身のイメージと自然が抽象的に融合し、最も魅力的に交わる点を探しているのです。自然と生活の延長線上にあるクリエイティブ。それは、元来人間の持つ最もプリミティブな表現なのかもしれません。


1982年 和歌山県生まれ。
19歳から京都の路上で似顔絵を描き始め、18年間ひたすらに人とその縁に向き合う。
2020年、地元和歌山に移住。土地に息づく風土や霊性に導かれ、絵画を描き始める。

SyoTatsu started portrait drawing on the streets of Kyoto in 2001 and met many people face-to-face during the last 18 years. But, when he was thinking about moving to his hometown Wakayama in a mountainous area, he came across a piece of land. He then experienced a mysterious night. One day when he fell asleep, lords of the mountain appeared in his dream, and they played sumo wrestling and spent time playing in nature with each other. After he woke up, the scenery remained in his mind. Encouraged by his wife and friends, SyoTatsu's paintings have changed to the ones that were inspired by the dream.

He utilizes materials from his own daily life, such as clay, indigo, bengala, sumi ink, and charcoal. Not bound by the concept of Japanese or Western painting, he continues to weave the dream he saw that day using inspirations he receives every day in the mountain environment where he is situated. He sometimes buries his paintings in the ground and washes them with water. The works created in this way develop a natural form over time. He looks for a point where his own image and nature fuse abstractly together and merge most fascinatingly. Creativity that lies ahead on an extension of nature and our everyday life...It may be the most primitive expression that humans originally possessed.

Born in Wakayama Japan in 1982.
I started drawing NIGAOE Portrait on the street in Kyoto, when I was 19 years old.
I have been drawing Portraits and met a lot of people for 18 years.
2020 Immigrate to Wakayama.Guided by the climate and spirituality in the land, Started painting.


https://syotatsu.jp



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