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Painting, Acrylic on Wood
Size: 48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
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ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Kae Sasaki’s work speaks of the complexity of modern identity, and displacement that can be felt when straddling different cultures. This series of interior paintings entitled I hear it well but scarcely grasp it of Teatro alla Scala in Milan culminated from her experience in a production of die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, a Wagner opera once famously misappropriated by the Nazis, set in an allegorical post-war 1950’s Germany. The uneasy, ironic parallel she drew to the Berlin Pact of 1940 from her attendance as Japanese patron at a German opera, written by a composer suspected of his antisemitism and performed in once Mussolini Italy, was shared by an Italian audience as this opera had not been performed at la Scala for 27 years. As director Harry Kupfer urges the value of tolerance rather than exclusion would allow artistic traditions to be renewed, Sasaki depicts the experience and audiences as fragments of culture, bringing together disparate ideas that coagulate to suggest our hyper-connected yet fragile world.
Original Created:
2018
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DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Painting:
Acrylic on Wood
Original:
One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:
48 W x 36 H x 1.5 D in
Frame:
Not Framed
Ready to Hang:
Not applicable
Packaging:
Ships in a Crate
SHIPPING AND RETURNS
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Canada.
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Kae Sasaki
Canada
Kae Sasaki is a Japanese-born visual artist living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Sasaki grew up in Fukui, an hour away from Kyoto, with a slight detour in El Paso, Texas in her formative years. She graduated from Rikkyo University in Tokyo where she studied German literature as well as education and library science. After moving to Winnipeg she worked full-time in accounting and half-time grading exams and essays on campus while putting herself through School of Art at University of Manitoba, graduating with first class honours in 2012. Sasaki has since taught drawing as a sessional instructor at University of Manitoba faculty of architecture while establishing a full-time studio practice. Sasaki is a recipient of Alice Hamilton Painting Prize, Cecil C. Richards Memorial Award for achievement in figurative sculpture, Lynn Sissons Memorial Scholarship, and a public art commission award from University of Manitoba Sculptural Experience competition. Her art practice has been generously supported by grants from Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. Most recently she has been shortlisted for the Kingston Prize in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023, as well as the Salt Spring National Art Prize in 2017, and Jackson's Open Painting Prize in 2018 and 2019. To learn more, visit
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