Faces “MASK”

source: highlike

Work: This work was created for magazine cover artwork. A blurring of the lines between analogue and digital, three-dimensional geometric forms and bulky accessories which is combined with the models, who pose as though it were a fashion photo shoot.
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source: dresslab

There are artists who make work concentrating on its aesthetic value, artists who create controversy, artists who follow a trend… and then there are artists who give shape to their own personal universe and generate something that most likely no-one else would have ever made reality. Japanese artist Makoto Yabuki forms part of this last category.

Yabuki began his career as a visual designer in 1997 and six years later he became artistic director of one of the most well-known visual design companies: TANGRAM.co.lt. The artistic quality of his video works is backed up by awards from festivals such as Siggraph, Art Futura, Onedotzero and Ars Electronica.

It’s hard to find much more information on this artist beyond these brief presentation details. However, it’s very easy to come across his art, and that’s perhaps a sign that his works say a lot more about this inventor of paradises where the law’s of gravity do not apply.

His project Faces (from which I have chosen the two examples: “mask” and “mirror”) offer a compendium of some of the constants present in his work: a blurring of the lines between analogue and digital, three-dimensional geometric forms and bulky accessories which he combines with the models, who pose as though it were a fashion photo shoot…. Perhaps it’s his series Syn that let’s us discover his darker side, but in compensation he offers us the evocative White Box, in which the famous blank page every artist has to face turns into a box full of possibilities to discover. Once over the initial block, Makoto is able to bring three dimensions to the abstract drawings that spring from his pencil. In a moment of inspiration, his geometric shapes take over everything and finally become recognizable objects until he manages to give the white box it’s place in history.
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source: forwardcouncil

Makoto Yabuki works as a director/ art director at Tokyo, Japan. He started his career as a visual designer in 1997,
and established TANGRAM co.,ltd. with companions in 2003.
His artistic range is expansive; mong his recent works are “scope”, “MANAKAI”, “CONFINE(S)”, “AS ONE”.
His works have been presented in international film festivals such as SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica.
His activity keeps extending day by day.
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source: espacioactitudes

Makoto Yabuki es un artista japonés que comenzó su carrera como diseñador visual en 1997. Desde 2003 es el director artístico de la empresa británica Tangram Ltd. La calidad artística de sus obras ha sido representada en festivales de cine internacionales de renombre como SIGGRAPH, onedotzero, artfutura, ARS Electronica.