Name/Title
Northern River 5 Camera CraneEntry/Object ID
2013.01.04Description
Jon Sasaki (b. 1973) is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist whose artistic practice is concerned with generating creative and convoluted approaches to art that provoke question and inquiry. Sasaki began his artistic career as a landscape painter and now works primarily in photography, performance, and installation art. His subject matter and interests are diverse. However, Sasaki frequently uses his artworks to question the notion of being an artist.
Paying homage to famous Canadian painters such as Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Jon Sasaki's Northern River Camera Crane 5 (2011) is part of a series of works that both celebrates and challenges the format of landscape paintings. Visiting the stunning natural scenery of Algonquin Park in Northern Ontario, the site of many of Tom Thompson’s well-known artworks, Sasaki uses a video camera and an 8ft- camera crane to render the same landscapes in high definition. Unlike the untouched forest depicted in Thompson’s Northern River (1914-15), the resulting videos and video stills break from the sense of painted idealism as Sasaki’s mechanical setup crashes through the treeline, making the viewer aware of the artist’s presence in the landscape.
Sasaki received his BFA from Mount Allison University. His work has been exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at The Esker Foundation, (Calgary, AB); The Richmond Art Gallery; The Rooms (St. John’s Nfld); and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Sasaki has participated in recent group exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, (Seoul, South Korea); The Bentway, (Toronto); The Canadian Embassy in Japan (Tokyo); The Nihonbashi Institute of Contemporary Arts, (Tokyo) and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, ON).
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Medium
Duratrans in LED lightboxMade/Created
Date made
2011Edition
ed. 1/3 +1 APDimensions
Height
71.1 cmWidth
106.7 cm