Sai MARUTA: PEACE and WAVES |
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Published: May 14 2010 |
"World Peace" (detail)(2009), Rotring pen, acrylic on paper, 116.8×1000cm, photo: MIYAJIMA Kei, (c) MARUTA Sai, courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery A painter born in the city of Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture in 1969, this exhibition is Maruta Sai’s first solo show in Tokyo. Maruta’s almost ten years old strain at his Rotring technique reveals the artist’s strong interest for Leonardo Da Vinci who is said to have adopted a similar use of dots. According to the artist, the act of 'hitting' beginning like the morning prayers differs from the pleasant fact of ‘drawing’, rather leading to the world of an ascetic monk chanting a million prayers to the Buddha. Maruta who used to live in Tokyo says that he found what his self what longing for when he moved back to Nagasaki, exhausted by his life in the capital. There was the thicket of the mountain grass and the smell of the seashore he enjoyed as a child. His pathetic affection toward his native Nagasaki reduced to a burnt-out area by the dropping of the atomic bomb faces his nostalgia for the past and his hope for the future, his prayers or Love and Peace, proved to be the incentive to producing his work. * The text provided by Mizuma Action. Opened dates: July 14 - August 14, 2010 |
Last Updated on July 14 2010 |