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Le Merle • Collection prestige

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Coming from a family of Japanese artists for 3 generations, Sébastien Kito, son of the painter Akira Kitô, was born in Paris in 1963. He studied painting and entered the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1985 and attended Pierre Alechinsky’s workshop hoping to rediscover the spirit of the Cobra group in which his father had participated in the 1950s. At the same time, he worked for artists of New Realism, notably Raymond Hains, whose assistant he became from 1983. He then quickly felt the desire to explore the confrontation of his dual Japanese and French origins. Through original thinking and a hybrid practice closer to sculpture, he creates hollowed-out mobile screens and paintings on supports playing on the notions of shapes, voids and solids as much as on color. His works appear in numerous private collections and museums in Europe but also in public places such as the luxurious Hôtel du Ministère (Paris 8th), the Tour Ampère (La Défense), or Place de l’Anquetille (Arcachon).

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“Sébastien Kito is an artist of withdrawal. Of lines too, because the refined sculpture tends to become a simple vertical or curved line. Rather curved, in fact, because the world he draws is of a cosmic nature. The earth is round, space is curved, the tree is elliptical.”

Mobile, articulated, and hollowed sculptures, often bearing anthropomorphic or animalistic reminiscences, Sébastien Kito’s works have a special relationship with space, closely related to the Japanese concept of “ma,” which refers to the subjective variations of the void connecting two separate elements. The artist materializes, from simple traces and lines, cut-out forms that articulate in plays of colors and transparencies to produce new refined volumes. In this way, he suggests complex relationships or interactions between the sculptures and the space, between fullness and emptiness.

The work “Merle” created for the Art For All Prestige collection perfectly embodies this reflection. A true symbol of knowledge and intuition, but also a bearer of renewal, this noble bird now engages in a new dialogue between the artist and the collector.
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Edition ART FOR ALL by Galerie Loft
2020 – Ed. 2023
Stainless steel and plexiglass, H.23 x W.29 x D.11 cm – 343g.
Signed on one foot and numbered to 100 ex.
Box dimensions with protective cover: 30 x W.19 x D.13 cm

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Additional information

Weight 343 g
Dimensions 23 × 29 × 11 cm
Year

2020

Material

Plexiglass, Stainless steel

Signature

Signed in the mold

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