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RESUME
Rui Araki graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, and comes from the world of traditional Japanese painting (Nihonga).
Following trips to New York and Paris, he has been working in contemporary art.
While he used to work in a very sensory approach of the medium, grinding his own pigments and working with patience with earthy materials in the service of natural subjects, Rui has now turned to abstraction.
Abandoning all narration, he has abandoned form, gesture, and the material itself to keep only the color and its multiple aspects.
By working on rhythms, variations and modulations, he explores the notions of circulation and balance.
The surface of the canvas becomes a space where the eye is called to lose itself, to carry the spectator in a meditative appeasement which is, in the end, not fundamentally distant from the objectives of Nihonga.