Ryota Matsumoto – ArtMaze Mag

1.     RYOTA MATSUMOTO Ryoto Matsumoto’s work reflects the morphological transformations of our ever-evolving urban and ecological milieus that are attributed to a multitude of spatio-temporal phenomena influenced by social, economic and cultural factors. They are created as visual commentaries on speculative changes in notions of socities, cultures and ecosystems in the transient nature of constantly shifting topography and geology. The artworks explore the hybrid technique combining both traditional media and digital media. The drawing process involves base images that are composed by parametric and algorithmic design techniques. Then they are merged with traditional media such as acrylic, ink, graphite, and photo collages. These are further processed and looped through a series of arithmetic and stochastic operations by algorithmic processing programs and their custom plugins. The varying scale, juxtaposition of biomorphic forms, intertwined textures, oblique projections and visual metamorphoses are employed as the multi-layered drawing methodologies to question and investigate the ubiquitous nature of urban meta-morphology, the eco-political reality of the Anthropocene epoch and their visual representation in the context of non-Euclidean configuration. Furthermore, the application of these techniques allow the work to transcend the boundaries between analog and digital media as well as between two- and multi-dimensional domains. His compositional techniques imbue the work with what we see as the very essence of our socio-cultural environments beyond the conventional protocols of architectural and artistic formalities, and that they conjure up the synthetic possibilities within which the spatial and temporal variations of existing spatial semiotics emerge as the potential products of alchemical procedures. Ryota Matsumoto is a principal and founder of an award-winning interdisciplinary design office, Ryota Matsumoto Studio. He is an artist, designer and urban planner. Born in Tokyo, he was raised in Hong Kong and Japan.

2. He received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania in 2007 after his studies at Architectural Association in London and Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art in early 90’s. Matsumoto has previously collaborated with a cofounder of the Metabolist Movement, Kisho Kurokawa, Arata Isozaki, MIT Media Lab and Nihon Sekkei Inc. before establishing his office. He currently serves as an advisor of Transart Institute in Berlin and New York. His art and design work are featured in numerous publications and exhibitions worldwide. Find out more about the artist: www.ryotamatsumoto.com M I X E D M E D I A C O L L A G E P A I N T I N G P H O T O G R A P H Y      PREVIOUS ARTICLE LING CHUN NEXT ARTICLE KATE MATTHEWS

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