Takagi Masakatsu
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Song: Girls
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Found via “Film. Music. Philosophy.”, Takagi Masakatsu has instantly become one of my top favorite multimedia artists. He paints with video, over it, through it, around and into it. Watching his incredible moving paintings is like seeing into a world of true forms. In his world, everything is literally burning with life and color and emotional essence; the sky, the wind, everything. It’s all more real than one could imagine.
The miraculous movement and flow of his works is wrapped up in what he calls the missing color of sound; the expressive ambient musical compositions he writes for each piece. The song in this post is “girls” from his album “Coieda”.
Despite the Macsturbatory propaganda, the Apple Pro video piece on him is of a very good quality, and shows some excellent samples of his work. In this PopJam interview he talks a bit about his art, and there are several other nice clips, though at a much lower resolution. His own site has many many large stills from the works as well.
Simply put, this stuff is effing gorgeous. Links: [1][2][3][4][5]
August 20th, 2006 at 1:27 am
I feel compelled to note that I am loving these frequent updates.
Commenting on this post, however…this is nothing short of the most creative beauty I’ve ever seen. I’ll have to check out a few more of those links..
August 20th, 2006 at 3:37 am
Thanks, I agree, this guy is amazing.
I remember as a young kid wondering if everyone saw things differently, realizing that it would be impossible for one person to have complete understanding of another’s perception. I think that when people can express themselves this clearly it becomes evident that people do not see the same world in their head. Sometimes we take for granted an objective reality where we are all experiencing the same things; but, especially in the presence of such intense creative vision, I think there must be more to it than that.
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:45 am
Although not as visually appealing at first glance, I find this other artist named Hiraki Sawa equally creative. Check out one of his video works here:
http://www.dvblog.org/movies/05_2006/hiraki.mov
Perhaps you’ve heard of him.
August 29th, 2006 at 6:42 am
Hiraki Sawa is very good thanks. Definitely different aesthetics, but both of them seem to have their own strikingly clear vision of the world.
January 9th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
I love playing this skin in Lumines II. He also did some PVs for Cornelius right?
January 9th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
Hey, I didn’t know about the Cornelius PVs but I found this short one that they collaborated on called tonar, inspired by printers heh:
January 9th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Oh look, youtube embeds just fit so well, might as well put some more in here:
“Girls”, the one that goes with the mp3:
One of his moving painting exhibitions:
“Light Pool”
“Private Drawing”
“Exit/Delete” with David Sylvan:
“Birdland”:
Some Collaborations done with Takamasa Aoki: