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Ritsuko Sato - New Works - |
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Caelum Gallery is proud to hold the first one person to show of the Japanese artist Rituko Sato. As is well known, Picasso and Matisse both kept their children's childhood drawings and studied them seriously. Children, they discovered, are incapable of making bad drawings. Children's natural ability to tell stories with the simplest and often the most unexpected means strongly influenced the artists, as did their uninhibited use of color. Ritsuo Sato follows the lead of these masters as well as many others who have endeavored to keep a childlike exuberance in their work, which is, paradoxically, kept in check by a mature sense of composition. Sato pits a childlike enthusiasm against a decidedly adult sexuality, as exhibited by couples Who populate many of her canvases. Sometimes jaded appearance of the people she depicts gives the impression that they are trespassers in an idyllic world of sunshine and fruit trees. The tension that develops is the classic rivalry of the Apollonian and the Dionysian in mankind. Currently the synergy between fine art and the commercial art of the comic book and computer-generated images is front and center in Japanese art. Sato's work harks back to an older type of illustration, particularly in children's book, which brings us full circle to the artwork of children themselves. |
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| Nicholas Bergman Director Caelum Gallery |
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