Kenichi Sawaki's first exhibition at Base Gallery.

Kenichi Sawaki was born in 1949 in Oita. Since his graduation from Post-graduate courses at Tokyo University of the Arts, he has been creating landscape sculpture. The landscape he creates is rather different from the one we normally see. It has been abandoned and even become rusty. Not to mention we ourselves are mortal. Though having said that we spend a day pretending to ignore the fact. Sawaki’s landscape reminds us of this deep providence which cannot be removed.

However, it is never be a forceful way, it reveals the deep relief out of us, with some feelings of farewell. We cannot help gazing at his landscape with warm intimacy. He has acquired overwhelming skills and nurtured his expressions. He has hardly ever presented his works to the public. His attitude is nothing similar to the current trendy artists and artworks which are full of tactics with no real soul, and his landscape delivers his strong passion in creation as well as his skills, to the extent where it makes us realize the dynamics of art once again.

* The text provided by BASE GALLERY.

Period: March 4 - April 9, 2011
Venue: BASE GALLERY