Akira Arita
The Gallery MarignanaArte in Venice presents the first solo exhibition in Italy of the Japanese-born American painter, Akira Arita (b.1947). A most recent, large scale pencil drawing on paper introduces the exhibition and juxtaposes the works selected among those of the past ten years which have never before been shown.
Arita’s main concern in his paintings and drawings is rooted in visual logic, incessantly attempting to bring the works to extreme simplicity with limited use of colours. Considering the pictures not as an illusion, but as a tangible entity to reduce the pictorial vocabulary with a single solid colour or with random accumulations of lines drawn using a straight edge as though testing where and when the pictorial coherence falls apart.
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Akira Arita e il potere del ripensamento, Arianna Testino, Atribune, November 2014
Less is more. La pittura secondo Akira Arita, Francesca Giubilei, EspoArte, October 2014
Tête d’Aphrodite, 2014, Pencil on paper, 255 x 392 cm
Dipinti e disegni, installation view