makoto sasaki: tokyo layers at frantic gallery

‘tokyo layers #8’ by makoto sasaki, 2011 digital c-print 60 x 90 or 97×145.5cm ed.10 all images courtesy frantic gallery, tokyo

makoto sasaki: tokyo layers frantic gallery, tokyo, japan on may 25th until may 27th, 2012

each photo-image by japanese artist makoto sasaki in his new series ‘tokyo layers’ has been enhanced in such a way that the pictured city seems to be busier still, enabled by his unique method of image creation. tokyo has been captured by sasaki as an accumulation of all of the city’s busy and frenetic energy told through his long, moving exposure, and interruption of light works of art. layers of luminosity and elongated buildings have been realized in a manner that contemplates the inhabitants within the futuristic structures rather than focusing upon the bustling metropolis as a singular organism. the prints produced by sasaki in ‘tokyo layers’ have been developed without any digital adjustments, but instead achieve their painterly quality from the artist’s movement when the original image was captured. frantic gallery notes that the cyberpunk, futuristic gothics or urban-ghost aesthetic is intrinsic but rather than this motif being the primary subject of the artist, he instead focuses upon a representation of the city of tokyo’s essence as a work of art.

‘tokyo layers #2’, 2011 digital c-print 60 x 90 or 97×145.5cm ed.10