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SC0298-SKA1-PA-1
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Newnham - Building D - Level 2 - Left of D2000
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Kae Sasaki
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Ten Thousand Leaves III
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2015
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Painting
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Oil and patina on gold-leafed panel
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122 x 91.4 cm
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“In my work I seek an imaginative revitalisation of the narrative and atmospheric potential of painting. I use the commanding ability of painting to create visual worlds that are both familiar and extraordinary, rooted in everyday corporeal and spatial experiences. I am drawn to overlooked moments and seemingly uneventful places of lived experience, from where I strive to create a heightened sense of the visual and cultural specificity of painting and its evocative and persuasive powers.
With subjects from real life as well as literature I begin by first considering the composition and approach to colour; as the psychological component takes over, symbols and other elements are added to bring them forward so that the paintings would open up in a multi-vocal way. Gold and silver leafs have been dominant choice for my painting surface, and patina-as-paint method cultivates multi-cultural imprint while its rustic appearance suggests yet embraces decay of cultures.”
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Gurevich Fine Arts
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John Berger observed that in art, “men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” In direct contrast, Sasaki’s female child subjects interact with the viewer. The girls use props such as their fingers, glasses or plastic eyes to control both their own view out of the painting and the view of the observer on the work. Placed in dreamlike surroundings, they speak to us of their own abilities, thoughts and feeling. No longer objects, Sasaki effectively changes the traditional dynamic through the gaze of these energetic subjects. Traditionally, a woman's presence in painting has always related to itself, not the world.
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Purchased from Gurevich Gallery on March 25, 2017 .
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Asian red stamp above date on the bottom left
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