JUXTAPOZ Magazine – Rob Sato explores the country of the earthquake
Projects Sublimination is pleased to offer Country Country, a single exhibition of Rob Sato, which is based in Echo Park, and includes a new collection of graphics, paintings and cooperative fabric works. Sato explores the daily documents of drawing and documentation, tension between the chaotic forces that constitute our existence and the need for comfort and restoration. With the interaction of humor, horror and beauty, the exhibition is a personal reflection and a wider hope for the craftsmanship and the metaphorical that determines contemporary life.
“The art of Rob Sato lives in an exciting area where it calls on surrealist landscapes and the study of exploration, but it glimpses paradoxically bad trips to lurking on the horizon,” the owner of the camouflaged projects Shapeard Ferry notes. “The Sato boards evoke the Willie and Nika garden suitable for the edible, where the line between the delicious and the dead is necessary for ambiguity and adventure.”
He is located against the background of his career in clarification and animation, and he shakes through tectonic cultural transformations as shown through the Echo Park window, Los Angeles, his home and creative base for nearly two decades, the country of earthquakes is a return to the homeland of Lato. “Drawing is the main source of play and my main tools for seeing and thinking,” the artist reflects. “This work is characterized by trying to communicate with the world that faces it every day, and making art more limit than ever.” Sato, which mixes design, abstraction and experimentation, mixes sleeping paradoxes through the dreamer fragmented compositions that fluctuate between coexistence of volatile life.
The exhibition also highlights the importance of grounding in society and space, also highlights Sato’s cooperation with local artists, including graduates of the AKO CASTUERA, and the multidisciplinary artist Rosie Brand, and the Graham Kegan natural dye expert, whose contributions are translated by Sato drawings and paintings into textiles. The multidisciplinary works presented in the country of earthquakes are an account and version- an invitation to rest, reflection, and restoration, and we turn within spiritual, physical and cultural disorders.
