Amaterasu

Amaterasu is a work by the self-taught Japanese artist Hideyuki Katsumata (Chiyoda, Japan, 1974). Amaterasu is, in Japanese mythology, one of the names given to the goddess of the sun. Katsumata’s art is a visual, psychedelic and mythological orgy, where monsters, deities and other creatures join hands on the same canvas. His compositions are daring, combining the explicitly sexual with the divine and the traditional. However, his proposal is infinitely more cosmic, universal and metaphysical. Robots, dream demons and anatomically impossible aliens share baroque scenes with elements of Japanese folklore. The power of colour and the mixture of influences come together, resulting in impressive final images.