Naritaka Satoh - Artist Info

About Naritaka Satoh

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Satoh Naritaka
  • Biography

    Using his pencil like a surgeon's skalpell, Satoh creates absolutely symmetrical curved lines on babies' faces or gentle waves on naked women's stomachs in his photographic looking images.

    He implants babies' postures into stuffed animals (a rabbit-toy looks at us with a naïve gaze and a playful attitude) or inserts an air of strict officiality into the children's world (a baby is looking at us as if he/she is posing for a passport photo). Satoh brings architectural order into disorder, drawing hair in geometrical forms or intently depicting unreal bodies in a documentary style. "This artist has never been the ideologist of "pure natural beauty"; quite the opposite, he is the "evil genius" of artificial charm, made-up ...

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