Artist Statement

I have been all my artistic life a painter using traditional media like oil, acrylic or watercolors. But when around 7 years ago I learned the possibilities to use computer in the image making, I thought I found a new way to visualize my ideas in a quite different manner. My interest in the potential of the computer is not to make another version of my painting, but rather to find out the possibilities to make an image which I could not make in any other way. Regardless of the complexity of a given system I may be using, my concern is not with the mimetic aspect of image making neither in the degree of sophistication of the system. We know that computer art is still in its infancy. The future of this art does not rest in replacing one medium for another, but to create a new genre with its own structure and aesthetic principles which are not subject to the traditional art.

• Kazuya Sakai [1927-2001] (Japan/Argentine)  Kazuya Sakai was educated in Japan, where he studied literature and philosophy at the Waseda University, Tokyo. In 1951 he returned to Argentina and started painting. Kazuya Sakai was a visual artist, designer, critic, translator, and scholar who worked at the juncture between the East and the West. He was an expert in contemporary music and jazz and a professor at universities in Argentina, the United States, and Mexico. After a stint in New York at the height of the Pop art movement, he settled in Mexico City, where he is recognised as a pioneering figure in geometric art. [Sources: cvaa.com.ar & labiennale.org]
  cvaa.com.ar/04ingles/04biografias_en/sakai_en.php
  https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2024/abstractions/kazuya-sakai