Meet the artist Sota Sakuma at guided tour on Friday 27 September

Next FridayWalk through the Wandering Forest with Sota Sakuma nd exhibition curator Radek Wohlmuth

 

27.9. from 5pm

Bold Gallery, U měšt'anského pivovaru 6a, 17000 Prague

 

You enter the wandering forest when you accidentally step over a wandering root. Among the trees, you then usually move in irregular wandering circles that have no beginning or end. It's not so much that you can't get back to the mapped out path of everyday life, as that you find yourself enjoying the aimless wandering through a mysterious forest where anything can happen. The Japanese painter, carver and dancer Sota Sakuma paints such places and carves creatures out of linden wood to inhabit them. Sometimes he also captures them in ink and acrylic on traditional Japanese washi paper. If the plants are mostly real, the inhabitants of his magical forest – be they characters or animals – are, on the contrary, a bit phantasmal, so that reality and fantasy are mixed in his paintings, which only proves that the line between them is not only very thin, but also permeable.