Frantic Gallery, Dai-juichi Daikyo Bldg. 3F, 16-1 Kabutocho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku.
Tokyo, Japan

The Scene of the Accident is one of the main topics of world art history and represents the summit of life and its unpredictable end. Masters of different traditions and epochs were attracted by Accidents, Catastrophes and Disasters, depicting the extremes of passion and the will for salvation, as well as the silent and sour outcomes of fate.

On the 9th of April 2010, frantic gallery opens “The Scene of the Accident”, a solo exhibition of Naoki Sasayama. A massive site of extraordinary traffic incidents featuring picturesque metal messes and elegant outbursts of debris will unfold in the two tiny rooms of the gallery. In eight large-scale watercolor paintings created during 2009 and several new works, these landscapes glorify the moment when life attains its most condensed flavor, the vigor of the last fatal encounter, the energy of a meeting that grasps, touches and leaves its trace − the scene of a car crash.

Despite the presence of dead bodies and ruined technology, “The Scene of the Accident” bursts with vitality and the lusciousness of life as it grasps tenaciously at both sides of the accident: its “life” and its “death”.