Sal Japan, b. 1970

A new wind then blows on the Tokyo art's scene.

SAL is a Japanese artist based in Tokyo.

 

Autodidacte, he start painting in 1996 and shocases his works in 2004. His creations at that time are mainly graphic patterns inpired by the japanese culture. In 2008, he starts to work on canvas and explors a larger surfaces as a new artistic horizons. After focusing for a long time on his culture (Japanese), its history and its nature, he choses to question the human existence. A new wind then blows on the Tokyo art's scene.

 

His first exhibition in Paris 2016, "The Future of Human Existence", focused on the main stages of his reflection concerning the future of Humanity through issues that are more current than ever. All major religions assume that Man is made up of mind, body and soul, the latter being the source of all his life energy. This is the idea behind SAL's series, "Homo sapiens lumen". Rich in references to Western as well as Eastern religions, his works summon the notions of original sin, karma and, above all, nirvana.

With the constent development of new tecnology, man gradually dematerializing   itself into a simple sum of data. Humankind is shaping a future where the body will no longer be considered as a negative externality, a loss of energy that it will seek to optimize and to simplify as much as possible the most trivial aspects of everyday life. Once this spiritual awakening (nirvana) is reached, "Man becomes light" to continue its evolution.

 

SAL goes so far as to imagine a dematerialization of wars over territories and all conflicts related to personal possessions would disappear. He then sets out to describe this "reality in the making" by exploring all of its issues. Very skeptical of these emerging advances, SAL questions the values of Humanity in the making and explores the concepts of universality and the repetition of history through timeless illustrations and paintings.