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Yellow Flower

Yasuragi - Repose

Yasuragi:恬静

Solo exhibition

Artist(s)

Risa Wada 莉沙和田

DATE

11/08/2019 - 22/08/2019

VENUE

Younie Gallery, Kuala Lumpur

CURATOR'S WORDS

Risa Wada, a demure lady who enjoys her life in her own quiet world. After working for 18 years, she resigned from her job and now leisurely spends time with her cats at home. Her daily life is full of dialogues and playtime with her cats, which the idea to visualise her genuine feelings gradually emerged. Risa’s affections towards her feline friends drove her to ponder over their thoughts and behaviours. With blooming inspirations, she depicts her cat's spiritual world and soul in surreal forms and colours, giving them "shapes" that could be approached and appreciated. This was the starting point for her to open the doors towards the path of art and painting. Risa’s imagination spreads to her plants at home. She too tries to communicate and understand them, and their feelings and emotions are turned into artworks, which has given rise to “Anima”, or Plant Spirits series.

To become a maestro in arts, one must not only equip themselves with superb painting skills but also possess a spirit of transcendent creativity. This is because although skills and techniques could be improved through relentless practices, to have extraordinary creative productivity as an artist is even more difficult. Risa Wada may just be an emerging artist at this point, nevertheless, she has already owned the most valuable talent an artist could have. Thus, while there are still rooms for improvement in painting skills, her creations are starting to resemble those of great artists. As such, I foresee that her future prospect is truly promising!

莉莎和田,一位生活在自己宁静世界的小女人。她年轻但生活经验丰富,结婚后辞职在家,成日就跟自己的猫儿混在一起。在家中各种琐碎的事,都离不开与猫儿的对话或嬉戏的温绻柔语,于是逐渐的产生把内心真确的感触视觉化的念头。因为爱猫,也爱猫心切,各种对猫儿思想与行为的揣测悠然而起。于是猫的精神世界、猫的灵魂,被她赋予各种超现实的形态与色彩而成为可触摸和欣赏的”形体”。这个起点让她成功开启一道步入艺术绘画之门。之后,她的艺术思想形态蔓延到那些生活在她家里的各种植物、那些她日夜相对的花草树木的”灵魂”世界里,与它们沟通、接触、了解,然后再形象化她对它们的了解与感受,为此产生这一系列的植物精灵作品。
一位优秀的画家,并不只需拥有高超的绘画技术,并且不乏那股超然的创作精神。绘画技术可以随着不断的训练提升,这并非难事。但要拥有非一般的艺术创作能力,却是难之又难。莉莎和田虽然是一位新晋画家,但已经拥有最难能可贵的艺术养分。绘画技巧纵然娇嫩,但大师般的创作风格已然显现,未来的表现,令人万千期待!

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