Saori Kanda is a renowned Japanese artist known for her unique "life painting" style. She paints while dancing to music, combining painting, dance, and performance into a synchronized spectacle. Kanda spent her childhood in Iraq and Dubai, exposing her to diverse cultures that influence her work blending Japanese and Arabic aesthetics. Through her artistic performances, Kanda expresses herself and the experiences of her life, seeing painting as an integral part of who she is. She is a multi-talented artist who seeks new ways of creative expression.

2. Saori Kanda cunoscută și ca SAORI'An - este o renumită artistă și designer japonez. Un talent artistic complet,
fiind în același timp pictor, pictor-dansator, body painter, designer de interior și designer de modă.
Ea este foarte cunoscută în Japonia și datorită campaniilor publicitare dedicate renumitelor mărci de autoturisme
Alfa Romeo, Maserati și Nissan Motors, precum și acțiunilor de caritate cum ar fi cele instituite după devastatorul
cutremur urmat de tzunami din Japonia, Fukușima, 2011.
S-a născut la 5 iulie 1978 în Yamaguchi, Japonia, dar și-a petrecut copilăria în Bagdad Irak, Emiratele Arabe Unite
și Dubai, având marea oportunitate de a cunoște frumusețea lumii încă din copilărie.Ea combină frumusețea și
distincția artei japoneze cu diferite aspecte și impresii ale culturii și vieții arabe, creând o operă unitară.
Stilul ei de pictura este unic, deoarece pictează acompaniată de muzică, dansând în acelasi timp.
Pictura ei live este absolut originală atinge perfecțiunea divertismentului și nu se poate compara cu nimic altceva
în lume.
Ca pictor își folosește și propriile mâini pentru a da viața ”poveștii” pe care o încarcă pe același panou, în imagini
sucesive până când ajunge la tabloul final. Toate momentele desfășurându-se sub privirile entuziaste ale
publicului, într-un spectacol fascinat de muzică, dans, lumină și culoare, frumusețe și senzualitate feminină.
Pe plan internațional este cunoscută și apreciată ca fiind "pictorul dansator". Saori Kanda a pus în scenă
spectacole în colaborare cu branduri high-fashion, cum ar fi Vivienne Tam. Educația primită în copilăria petrecută
în Bagdad și Dubai dă roade căci Kanda țese atât estetica arabă cât și japoneză, în delicate lucrări pe care le
pictează direct în fața publicului.
Se spune ca ”Privind-o pe Saori poți simti într-o singură clipă farmecul senzual al femeii japoneze.
Nu este nevoie de cuvinte. E doar minunat.”
Japanese Art & Culture UNCOVERED Project
Photo :Hiro

3. PAINT LIFE , Nagoya [Kawabun]

4. 2010: paint for Alfa Romeo TV Commercial

5. ”Large tree”
Nagoya Castle

7. ”Japanese folk fusion band 'Kariyushi' performs as Saori Kanda (right) creates
a ‘music-inspired painting’ at a cultural festival in Kolkata — Photo: AP ”

8. Photo : Nobuhiko OhtsukiPhoto : Tsutomu Tanaka
Saori Kanda -SAORI’An
Dancing Life Paint Artist

9. LIFE PAINT
Total Solar Eclipse
2012

12. Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda
2012 7/15 Sun. SAORI'An
10th Anniversary Party Re-Kai univers

13. Life Paint by SAORI'An 2012
Photo : Tsutomu Tanaka

14. ＠ HI LIFE

15. Life @ Alive, 2013

16. PAINT LIFE
Photo : Akihiko Nagumo

17. Photo:Kazuhiko Kumaga
The Soul of Seoul
-party
”Cherry blossom”

19. Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda

20. Photo.Tsutomu Tanaka
”Night”
PAINT LIFE la Roppongi ART

21. ”Dragon Lake”

22. Photo:Nobuhiko Ohtsuki

25. NISSAN×SAORI KANDA 2013 CALENDAR

26. LIFE PAINT @ FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 2013
Cosmic Blessing Ensemble

28. ”Blue Moon”
Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda

29. Saori Kanda's LIFE PAINT
show at Okinawa on 8th Nov.2014

31. Merry Christmas!
2014
Lighting Decoration
Artist :SAORI KANDA
Photo by Ching Neng

32. “LIFE ALIVE”
Solo Exhibition of
original drawings

34. Life Paint at [ YAMATO ]
@Espace Nobuyoshi .
France,Tours 2014

35. Photo:Tsutomu Tanaka
”Kalimba”

36. Saori Kanda
have a performance at
Kazakhstan, Almaty on 24th
Oct.2014
Photo : Nobuhiko Ohtsuk

37. Happy Dreamy New Year 2015!
AD / Saori Kanda
Model / Saori Kanda
Costume design / Gao Da Moda
Hairmake / Masashi Tateno
Photo / Tsubasa Fujikura

38. SAORI KANDA have a LIFE PAINT show in Switzerland
on 28 March 2015

39. ”Flower dragon”

40. Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda

41. ”Prayer””Kurenai dance”
Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda

42. Art direction & model : Saori Kanda
Photo : Tetsuro Higashi

43. LIFE PAINT @ Maserati Party

44. ”Belly dance”
Photo:Yamahiro

45. Photo:Damon Yuen
LIFE PAINT

47. TEPPAN YAKI ROOM
Paint by SAORI'An

48. Photo:Annette Lam
Acrylic on canvas
paint by Saori Kanda

49. Foto:Nobuhiko Ohtsuki
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ONE NIGHT SUMMER EVENT

50. Photo: Mai Ogawa

51. ” Harumachi ”
(Primăvara)

52. Life Paint / Saori Kanda
”Blessing for my baby…” 2015, June.27
Photo : Andrew Wong @ coffeehouse photo

53. Painted for herbal tea salon.
”I enjoyed to paint with my baby”.

54. Photo:Katsuhito Yagi

55. Main Entrance
Paint by SAORI'An

56. ART by Saori Kanda
2012: Produced art work and appearance on
the official movie of Canon EOS 5D Ⅲ
battery

57. ”Eye of the mind”
Canon EOS 5D Mark III : Eye of the mind

58. ART by
Saori Kanda

59. Paint for notebook computer
and iphone 6
ART by Saori Kanda

60. ART by Saori Kanda

61. ART by
Saori Kanda

62. Saori Kanda, also known as SAORI’An is the Japanese artist who has all round artistic talent.
She has several faces as an artist and designer. The painter, dancing painter, body painter, spacial designer and fashion
designer. She has been impacting all over the world through her aggressive activities. She is very famous artist in Japan with
appearing TV commercial of famous car companies.
She is always seeking for the method to express her tireless passion, and she always keeps challenging new method. Her
ebullience to create new arts and activities are sky limits!
Her main source of being an artist could have formed by her personal background. She spent childhood in Baghdad Iraq, and
Dubai U.A.E. She had great opportunity to feel the beauty of the world in childhood. At the same time, she naturally started to
hold admiration for Japan and Japanese culture. After she came back to Japan, she found the distinct and original Japanese
beauty like she had found in overseas. From her special experiment, she absorbed different aspects and impressions of beauty
from Arabic countries and her mother county Japan. We could find that this is the reason we feel distinct impression through her
works. She combines and expresses the Japanese beauty and the world beauty in one piece.
Life painting
Her concept is “Life Painting” and the keyword of her artwork is “BEAUTY OF THE LIFE FORCE.” It’s not just a surface and
external beauty, it also has the internal beauty that every single life form has.
“The beauty of Japan that I have felt since I was a young child. The beauty of the world.
Through my work, I connect the elements of skin, earth, paper, and clothing with the forms of music, movies, dancing, and light.
My work reflects the encounters that I have had with various kinds of people and how my body has reacted to them and the
movements of my hand.
I can truly say now that “I love to paint.” – Saori Kanda
She calls her own creative activities as “Life Painting”. It means painting is herself and her life itself. She is expressing herself
through painting. Every works come from her experience in her life. To create and to paint is very important part of her life.
Live Painting
Her painting style is very unique. She paints and dance with music at the same time. Three different factors have synchronized
and united as one complete performance. Her live painting is totally original like nothing else in the world, and it is perfection as
great entertainment. She uses her own hands to draw instead of the equipment, also she paint on herself during the
performance. She draws with her whole body, and becomes the part of her artwork. You could find that she is paining and
dancing with full of pleasantness like a child. At the same time you can also feel the sensual charm of Japanese women in one
moment. There is no need any words. It’s just awesome.
Website: http://www.saorian.com/
Text by Japanese Art & Culture “UNCOVERED PROJECT”

63. ”Tabla Masreya”
averio 13@yahoo.com
2015
Saory with his little baby boy