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Sat One
Detail images from the exhibition in Munich
Text by: www.graffuturism.com & www.ekosystem.org Photo By: Max Geuter
Sat One recently exhibited new work for his recent solo show titled “Chromolog” at Firstlines Gallery in Munich Germany. Sat One has established himself aas a premier muralist. He takes time away from painting walls and focuses his attention on canvas
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at One was born in 1977 in Venezuela and grew up in Munich. A trained graphic designer discovered early his interest in graffiti, but steadily developed a style that denies remote historically evolved forms and imagery, the supposedly superficial beauty. Sat One designed with its non-Euclidean geometric abstractions and futuristic-looking forms a formal but not tangible world, a world in which the spatial effect exists but is not predetermined by classical laws of physics in severity. Sat One tightrope walk between clarity and futuristic constructivist rejection of classical ideas recites defined geometry, microscopic forms, visualizes bold visionary unphysical or ban, in the style of classic science fiction, fantasy and reality to hyperspace on canvas. Sat One appears with its cvvvzomplexity and its precision as an architect of a parallel existing reality, in which the physical form of their building materials, away from earthly gravity, manifesting only in their combination. «People often tell me that they are impressed by the cleanliness you can see in my work. I use it more like a necessary ingredient to support the graphical-look and to get a clear, vis-
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ible reduction of my ideas. Around 2000 i finished graphic-design school and it took a great influence on my later work. The time before, i used to paint “illustrative”, using much more details, fadings and also a bigger range of colours. WON (Abc) had a big influence back then. From time to time i`m also doing fotorealistic
stuff for commission works - People wouldn`t believe it`s also done by me. At the moment i like to experiment alot and to search through old drawers to refresh some ideas from the past and connect it with actual stuff.»