To Dream, to Collect
Reference
9ddf0958
Year
2005
Medium
Drawings & Works on Paper
Size
38.2 x 54.2 cm
15.04 x 21 in
Artwork offered by
Category
Ink on paper.
About the Artist
1983 , Japan
Yuichi Saito is a young member of Kobo Shu, a creative studio for adults with developmental disability in Saitama prefecture. Since 2002, when he began making work Saito showed a single interest in making written works, unlike the many artists at the studio who prefer to work in paint. Saito writes the titles of his favorite TV shows: Pocket Monster, Doraemon, Stray Cops (a Japanese version of Miami Vice), TV Champion and so on, methodically creating each piece on the specific day that the TV show is aired. While the drawings are rooted in the artist’ interests, they have recently reached a point of visual abstraction that illustrates a greater level of intensity. More recently, he is indulged in stroking a single alphabet of “mo”, whose repetitions display his emotional states.
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About the Gallery
Address
Paris, 3-5, Passage des Gravilliers
The christian berst gallery is specialized in art brut. By presenting the contemporary aspect of art brut, the gallery implies that it cannot be confined neither in a period of time nor in a geographical perimeter not even in a formal spectrum. What is at stake here is rather the notion of individual mythology, dear to Harald Szeemann. The gallery - situa...