Artist Statement
Keanu Sapadi plays with powerful gestures and persuasive imagery. Fluid forms and dynamic patterns reveal vibrance, an attribute of color, that he translates into drawing. He explores the energy of his body, the sensitivity of his wrist and fingertips, non-controlled approach and custom-built tools to enhance movement and impose parameters. Despite diversity, his logic remains understandable without the requirement of additional context.
Mischievous, figurative humour is pinched into the scenery by displaying the influence of cartoon, anime and video games as inhabitants and visitors, further researched in digital drawing. Which he uses to take an archaic stance addressing healthy progression in an accelerated society. Ultimately, he critiques the post-modern individual's lack of diversified perspective, likening one-dimensionality to the madness of fictional characters.
Sapadi's fascination to explore and discover fuels his artistic process. Experiencing the beautiful, but harsh reality as it is. Through observation he translates, what is happening. - "Things happen in space. Space itself is not affected. Things simply fill the emptiness that space provides." - A belief aiding in reflection, helping Keanu Sapadi to maintain composure amidst his artistic calamity, blending an element of tranquility into the creative chaos. Opening combinations that should repel themselves, but attract. - Leaving an invitation into abstract landscapes of seemingly destructive emotions, that otherwise have no home.
Qiyana Sapadi
Sometimes reality is wonderful harmony,
sometimes a grotesque dissonance.
(Desire for mastery, inheritance of harmony and dissonanceaspiring an effortless, graceful and awed technique, allowing fragility through kindness. Unique excellence of the individual. Acknowledgment of own individual excellence, respect other superiority. Admiration of skill. Difference base for unity.)
