{"id":8922,"date":"2025-01-22T17:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2025-01-22T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:54:20","slug":"kenji-sakai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/en\/kenji-sakai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenji Sakai"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cnt-gr-box page-end-sp\">\n<div class=\"exb-top-box\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Kenji Sakai\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cnt-box-f\">\n<figure class=\"lob-r5\">\n<div class=\"cnt-box-f\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1125\" height=\"751\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8913\" src=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472960480_1554362031934855_4020162929956332621_n-e1737534335416.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472960480_1554362031934855_4020162929956332621_n-e1737534335416.jpg 1125w, https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472960480_1554362031934855_4020162929956332621_n-e1737534335416-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472960480_1554362031934855_4020162929956332621_n-e1737534335416-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/472960480_1554362031934855_4020162929956332621_n-e1737534335416-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"lob-l5\">\n<ul class=\"bogo-language-switcher list-view\"><li class=\"en-US en current first\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-us\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en-US\" href=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/\" title=\"English\" class=\"current\" aria-current=\"page\">English<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"ja\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-jp\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ja\" href=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/\" title=\"Japanese\">\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"ko-KR ko\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-kr\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"ko-KR\" href=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/ko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/\" title=\"Korean\">\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"zh-CN zh last\"><span class=\"bogoflags bogoflags-cn\"><\/span> <span class=\"bogo-language-name\"><a rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"zh-CN\" href=\"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/\" title=\"Chinese\">\u4e2d\u6587<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>Profile<\/h3>\n<p>Kenji Sakai<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>1996 Born in Kyoto<br \/>\n2019 BFA, Kyoto Seika University, Printmaking Course<br \/>\n2022 MFA, Musashino Art University in Printmaking course<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h3>Exhibition history<\/h3>\n<p>\u3010Solo exhibition\u3011<br \/>\n<strong>2024<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8220;Like seeing this world for the first time&#8221; nomadic gallery, OIL by Mijutsu Techo, AUTO VISION, Tokyo<br \/>\n<strong>2023<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Clair That Fell From the Sky&#8221; HIRO OKAMOTO GALLERY, Tokyo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<h3>Concept<\/h3>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>Kenji Sakai works across various media, including oil painting, printmaking\/silkscreen, and sculpture. Drawing inspiration from personal experiences, his work examines the relationship between the individual and the collective in modern society, as well as the inorganic structures of urban environments. Through a perspective that surveys concepts such as time, space, and invisible dimensions, his art challenges the viewer&#8217;s perceptions.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Sakai has been creating works that suggest the distortions and systemic breakdowns hidden behind the beauty of modern, developed societies. Depicting fragments and structures of futuristic cities meticulously controlled by artificial systems, as well as works reminiscent of a world&#8217;s end, his art employs minimal elements such as points, lines, and planes. By incorporating geometric shapes that have endured through the ages, he conveys a vision of &#8220;world balance&#8221; while simultaneously hinting at its precariousness.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sns-lk-in\">Instagram\uff1a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kenjisakai_87\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kenjisakai_87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenji Sakai\u00a0 \u00a0 Profile Kenji Sakai 1996 Born in Kyoto 2019 BFA, Kyoto Seika University, Printmaking Course 2022 MFA, Musashino Art University in Printmaking course Exhibition history \u3010Solo exhibition\u3011 2024 &#8220;Like seeing this world for the first time&#8221; nomadic gallery, OIL by Mijutsu Techo, AUTO VISION, Tokyo 2023 &#8220;Clair That Fell From the Sky&#8221; HIRO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"page-artists.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/?p=8907"},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8924,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8922\/revisions\/8924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biscuitgallery.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}