aya takano

Aya Takano's drawings and paintings reminds us the delicious souvenirs of game and innocence with a disarming sincerity and without ever sink into nostalgia. Although her universe is filled with mythic and cultural references, specifically japanese, she attains to make this universe strangely familiar and intimate. The immediate, the sensuality of her drawings address a message to the living and to the imaginative part of each of us, whatever his age or his origin. Once discovered, her work provokea a profound, and almost affectionate, attachment for the characters she brings to life. The use of diluted paint ( gouache, acrylic) as principal medium reinforces the sensual simplicity of her images which combines the febrility of a child's drawing and the virtuosity of the remarkable drawer she has become.
that umm.. was translated from japanese.
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