Masaki Mori
Masaki Mori has been drawing at the Yamanami studio since 2016. Passionate about experimental music since attending a John Cage concert during his graphic design studies, he has developed a drawing practice deeply influenced by the sonic world. His main series, notably Jiuta and Gig, visually translate musical structures and soundscapes, drawing inspiration from traditional Japanese music, psychedelic rock, and contemporary composers alike. In his works, lines, blocks, and graphic rhythms seek to render perceptible the spatiality of music and the sensations it evokes. Through drawing, he thus resolves the existential anxiety caused by his long battle with illness.
Born in 1969, Masaki Mori lives in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He joined Atelier Yamanami in 2016.
Masaki learned graphic design in a vocational school of design. While in school, he experienced 4’33”, the masterpiece of John Cage in his concert and became interested in experimental music of the United States. Afterwards, he started his own unique drawings with visualizing musical space in mind. Masaki produced “Jiuta (base songs)” Series based upon the expansion of space embodied by underground and Psychedelic rock and “Gig” Series expressing the visual image of deconstructed postmodern music represented by John Zorn, among others.
Masaki loves Antonin Artaud, a poet, and admits himself that he resolves existential anxiety caused by his long struggle against illness by drawing pictures.
Preface : Yukiko Koide & Raphaël Koenig
Foreword : Christian Berst.
Catalog published to mark the exhibition Japan Brut : the moon, the sun, yamanami, from August 31st to October 5th, 2019.
