Artwork by Kotaro Machiyama

"I want to draw it because it is beautiful. It is the same as I want to be like that because it looks cool, or I want to sing because it seems fun. This is the first condition of the desire to get closer to an object that I am attracted to”, explains the artist, Kotaro Machiyama, based in Tokyo, Japan.

Born in 1980, Kotaro’s paintings are vibrant, distilled, and beam an undaunted palette of bright hues. Whether they are planned compartments or spontaneous dialectic with canvas, the consistent visual terminology identifies with his perpetuating style.

In 2004, Kotaro completed his art program at Tokyo Zokei University of Art and design. From then on, his journey of exploring the time, beauty, space, and vagaries of routine has compulsively flowered his vast consciousness of delving into momentary phenomena.

Artwork by Kotaro Machiyama

 Significantly, the germination of each hue-characterized space is crisp and definite—as if narrating a tale of determination and ascetic firmness.

How firm are these space divisions? Are they brittle inside or concrete as they appear? Do they provide you with umpteen silence or transfer chaotic energy?

The meanings may not be present while deducing, as the artist opines, “He paints what he likes!”. And that is an absolute method to express, devoid of the socio-cultural association, streaming the inner energy directly onto the medium.

Artwork by Kotaro Machiyama

Kotaro is a recipient of the reputed Daikokuya Contemporary Art award and International Art And Design Visual Art Award bestowed by 6F Citizens Gallery, among many other awards. Having exhibited at numerous art spaces, national and international, Kotaro is one of the promising artists, articulating the concept of abstraction in new animated horizons.

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