The group show has been taking place from September 24 to September 29 in Espacio Gallery in London, where my work has been exhibited . This group show was organized by Gallery Art Point Tokyo. Mr. Yoshimura, thank you very much.
I did not go to the site this time, but some day I want to visit London.
Here is my artist statement for this show.
Recently Kikuko Sakota has been trying to capture the invisibles, especially, time such as the moment when she exists, passing moments, time space where she explores in particular places, or doing particular activities. One of the recent themes is music, in particular, jazz, especially jazz in 1950’s. Her attempt has been to create passing time space of jazz consisting of melody, rhythm, sounds, tones, etc. with acrylics and pastels on canvases. To express minor tunes, she avoids use of primary colors to finish painting but secondary colors and to describe improvisation of jazz, she spontaneously employs various brushstrokes to apply acrylic layers of different thickness. Referencing to the anecdote about Miles Davis, who did not point out mistakes of the pianist during the performance but he covered them up with the ad-libs, she also tries to liberate colors and compositions.
