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Spain
Drawing, Ink on Paper
Size: 11.4 W x 15.7 H x 0.1 D in
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Sumo (相撲 sumō?) Or sumo wrestling is a Japanese combat sport where two wrestlers or rikishi face off with the aim of throwing their rival to the ground or out of the circular area. Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a wrestler is highly regulated, with the rules set by the Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in "sumo training stables", known in Japanese as "heya", where all aspects of their daily life - from their meals to their dress - are dictated by a strict tradition. In this work, I have made a pen and ink drawing of one of the most famous Sumo wrestlers (Sumotori) in Japan today. His name is Takakeisho and he occupies one of the top positions in the current Sumo ranking. The immensity of these gigantic fighters, their soft lines, their strength coupled with a shy character, have made me see Takakeisho in this drawing as if it were a great giant baby ..!
Drawing:Ink on Paper
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Size:11.4 W x 15.7 H x 0.1 D in
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Painting for me is an act of reflection. It means starting a trip inside, a return to an original mythological silence. It is to enter a noisy silence, contemplative emptiness full of sense. My years of artistic preparation studying traditional painting in Japan (Sumi-e), made me rediscover my environment with new eyes. The combination of my solid artistic formation in the University of Seville in Spain and my research studies in the University of Tokio showed me a particular suggestive language through which I try to build an emotional bridge with an intuitive perception of the infinity. In my works there is a moment of detained contemplation, an effort to make the ephemeral permanent, to see the immobile and the immutable through the oasis of the calm reflexive contemplation. I pretend to make people feel the presence of the impalpable, of magic, of ineffable things … The technique I use in my paintings promotes transparency, glaze, the light coming from the inside of the painting. The quality of the colours that I use is essential. It is a mixed technique that includes acrylic paint together with oil painting with natural pigments. With a texture obtained with the use of different types of sand, I intend to look for an “epidermis” for the painting that is sensitive as well as vibrating at the same time. In none of my painting the human being has a place; it is not necessary; it is in the first place, always present by evocation. All in all, I pretend for my paintings to act as resonances for the engrossing vigilant spectator. My paintings want to become “figurative” spaces that tend to the Absolute. Suggestion and evocation; they try to tell without pronouncing. As Arthur Rimbaud said: “There are other worlds, but they are in this one”.
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