Japanese artist, Rieko Hotta, works in a serial practice, mainly consisting of paintings, that evoke tactile images, as well as objects and installations, based on the concept of embodied abstraction, commited to process an abstract thinking into physicality using limited materials and colors. In her new series of paintings, her interest goes towards combining proportioned things – for example shapes and regular arrangements – with the imperfect, mysterious, broken or out of balance.
Using muted color, Hotta shapes her paintings by random hand movements and draws on regularly arranged dots with abstract shapes, keeping the balanced concept while following her intuition to ignore and break the method. Within this process, Hotta is exploring to express a more personal abstract language than we have seen before. In addition she raises the question of what and how you scan and touch on a sphere, where the real and the non-real coexist, and what remains after the individual preocess is filtered. With meticulous and precise pencil strokes, Hotta leaves her paintings to a silent – almost meditative aesthetics.
Rieko Hotta is born 1977 in Tokyo. Since 2012 she has been living and working in Berlin. In 2001 she graduated from Nihon University College of Art, Department of fine Arts in Tokyo.
Source: Mari Kirkegaard Gallery