"City" is the place to support people equally in the present age. However, it was often interpreted negatively as a leviathan who alienated human and nature. Satoshi Koyama who started creation in 70's is the one of the artists who spent his adolescence not in such huge city. Buildings which reduced to windowless cube continue endlessly.
Such strange spectacle of "City Series" shows it eloquently. His works were invited to exhibitions such as "Shell Art Award", "Memorial of Shigeru Aoki", "Tenri Biennale" and "Memorial of Ryohei Koiso" and evaluated higher one after another. His nihilistic look which even surpasses surrealist Yves Tanguy might have scooped out people's minds sharply and nailed down their eyes. That is the one of the scenes of contemporary art with deep emotion.
However, I came to think that his works of "City Series" lead the city images of current people slowly but surely. I could do nothing but be surprised that inorganic and anti-natural Koyama's world turned to the global inner city or megacity before one knows. The strange buildings became trees or human bodies and turned to the bright life hymn. I can comprehend that because of nothing but his insight of the city.

Jun Teshigawara (Art Critic)