Our former Japanese student in the Master in Performing Arts Production, Reika Ogami, is carrying out her final-year project to introduce you to the works of her grandfather as well as two artists, Denis Oudet and Renaud Cayla, "Painting and Sculpture, Expression of Thought, Path of the Spirit."
Come discover the works of two artists in their own studios, where the paintings of a Japanese artist are exceptionally on display and will invite you to travel.
Seihô (born in 1930 in Fukuoka, Japan), whose real name is Kiyoto Shiramizu, devotes himself to the art of suiboku-ga (水墨画 "water and ink image"); in his traditionally styled paintings, Zen thought resonates magnificently with the expression "nature and emptiness," the image of the real world reduced to its pure form in the painting.
Denis Oudet (born in 1949 in Paris), his work is both a reflection on the body, its representation through drawing, and finally the different metamorphoses that allow a return to the third dimension. The field of representation extends from form to gesture, to movement, to thought itself, which finds in withdrawal the strength of its development.
Renaud Cayla (born in 1958 in Ethiopia) Believing that abstract painting’s ability to preserve the illusion of depth is a blind spot of pictorial practice, he wants to give the play of shadow and light a hallucinatory presence, inspired in particular by Far Eastern painting.
Workshops of Denis Oudet and Renaud Cayla
65 rue Marx Dormoy 75018 Paris
Opening: October 6 from 18:00
October 7 – 15, 2017, from 11:00 to 19:00
