Tuesday, 21st of April, 2015
Manic vibrancy pulsates in us everyday. We are saturated in light and colour so much so that it causes some people to become over saturated and subsequently die or even worse! imprisoned in a sea of grey misery (depression). It is a struggle, a constant war. Colour poses a risk as do the continual bombardment of information we face on most part of our daily routine in contemporary squalor. With an array of materials, from high end products of oil and silicone to human excrement, crayon wax and markers we choose materials and their instruments that leads to the exorcism of these bombardments we face in a techno-gizmotronic society. One by one the information is stored in log books, on sheets of paper or paradoxically on the screen of a computer laptop or hand held smartphone device via cloud storing technology to be contextualised for ourselves and for the enjoyment and the wellbeing of other humans.
The Art of Seishiro Matsuyama is a manifestation of the war we face with both colour and information. This frenetic struggle and subsequent balance between the two becomes evident in the collection 'Starwows' filled with horses, almonds, smiling faces (why are they smiling?) swastikas, phonecalls, flowers, teeth, eating, bambies, smiling (still smiling) all infused with colour, energy, anger, happiness, saturation expression where the body is engulfed towards the point of pure unadulteration. Seishiro's artwork is unadulterated spelled with a capital that is contained and deeply imbedded to the pages of Starwows, Capital Starwow.
The work album 'Art Work Moon' found on Seishiro's facebook.com album is less chaotic and show's more of the composed stylings of contemporary classical collaged pastes and unidentifiable technique on the surface. Beautifully strange touristic imagery brings us on a safari filled with large headed smiling people being nice to fleshy limbed creatures whilst they wear red socks. Eggs on platters and deformed meat piles with cream and raspberries all set in the foreground of a lush calming floral field with mountainy backdrop.
You crack open a pig to get an egg to cook in the cosmos whilst two business men converse in the canteen but deep down inside a chicken man is paired up to fight a pig man smoking a cigarette in his underwear. Might sound absurd but it is no more absurd than the day to day trot-toils we are faced with in our everyday human lives.
Forms of communication change over time, new forms of language spread into the vox populi of human engagement where new means of symbolic gestures take form to express human emotions such as sadness, love, joy and misery. A popular form of communication now takes the form of emoticons or stickers used on smartphone technological handheld devices. Seishiro has gone about incorporating his characters into his own visual language through sticker language. The series 'Kemono My House!' is a collection of 40 stickers like combinations of arranged letters (words) communicate emotions albeit in Seishiro's uniquely idiosyncratic way they are filled with much of his unique witty droplets that you can send to loved one's at home or while their out driving their car.
Stephen Morton (21/4/15)
Forms of communication change over time, new forms of language spread into the vox populi of human engagement where new means of symbolic gestures take form to express human emotions such as sadness, love, joy and misery. A popular form of communication now takes the form of emoticons or stickers used on smartphone technological handheld devices. Seishiro has gone about incorporating his characters into his own visual language through sticker language. The series 'Kemono My House!' is a collection of 40 stickers like combinations of arranged letters (words) communicate emotions albeit in Seishiro's uniquely idiosyncratic way they are filled with much of his unique witty droplets that you can send to loved one's at home or while their out driving their car.
Stephen Morton (21/4/15)
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Kamono My House! available from the Line Store here
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All Artwork Copyright © Seishirooo Matsuyama
