Marie Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Atsuo Suzuki.
Since 2003, Atsuo Suzuki has forged ahead with his own style of painting that he has named "Carved Painting". Suzuki’s "Carved Painting" brings into focus the carving that bore the development of Japanese art. Many layers of acrylic paint are applied to wooden panels that serve as the foundation for the paintings, the stratiform surfaces of which the artist then carves with a chisel.
The current exhibition poses questions about the importance of what the image is, over and above the surface of the carved painting. The pieces, which take shape through a technique of endless carving, become ‘pictures’ due to the existence of color.
For Suzuki's works so far, the so-called palette was turned out one color at a time, each monochrome color was confirmed as the combinations were considered. The works exhibited this time express the stage of the placement of each of the colors.
The subtitle for this exhibition is "irotamari" (in Japanese, "iro" means colors and "tamari" is something like a pool), and in these pieces Suzuki seeks out the relationships between one color and its adjacent color. By way of example, as in puddles of water after a rain lifts, every single color one sees in the pieces resonates.
For further information please check
the artist's official website
and contact the gallery at
info@mariegallery.com
