The painter-engraver Sho Asakawa, who now lives and works in Bordeaux, was born in 1962 in Goshogawara, Japan, on the island of Honshu. She was raised in a family environment that had great respect for art and that facilitated her path to creation. At the end of her studies, she graduated from the Asagaya School of Fine Arts in Tokyo.She decided to move to France in 1987 and took a year of linguistic studies at the University of Bordeaux. Sho Asakawa joined

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  The painter-engraver Sho Asakawa, who now lives and works in Bordeaux, was born in 1962 in Goshogawara, Japan, on the island of Honshu. She was raised in a family environment that had great respect for art and that facilitated her path to creation. At the end of her studies, she graduated from the Asagaya School of Fine Arts in Tokyo.
  She decided to move to France in 1987 and took a year of linguistic studies at the University of Bordeaux. Sho Asakawa joined Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 where she stayed for three years (1988-1990); there she met many artists, such as Hector Saunier, then head of the studio, Akira Abé or Isolde Baumgart. Over the years she also worked at the Atelier de Champfleury for lithography, took oil painting courses on the technique of the Middle Ages in the Atelier Jörg Hermel, a painter known for his attraction to the unusual and hiis sense of the imaginary, and attended the engraving workshop of Jean Clerté at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris. Upon her arrival in France, she participated in several group exhibitions (in 1989, at the Institut de France, then at the Salon d'Automne). In 1991, Sho Asakawa obtained a grant from the Taylor Foundation, which helped her to take her first steps in the art world. That same year, the artist exhibited for the first time individually (Kleinebrahm Gallery in Germany), then several years in a row, between 1992 and 1998, in Japan (Nomura Gallery and Michinoku Gallery). The individual and collective exhibitions will follow one another with regularity. She obtained several prizes (Biennale de l'Estampe de Sarcelles, Miniprint de Lahti in Finland or BP Oil Europe Young European Artist).Sho Asakawa will be several times artist in residence: in 1994, at the Chateau de Trousse Barrière in Briare (45), in 1995, in Saint Benoît du Sault (36), then, more recently (2016), in Saint Mathieu de Tréviers. When asked the names of some important artists, she cites, among others, Sesshu, Tohaku Hasegawa, Matisse, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.The Japanese artist is a follower of "Sumi-é", a traditional Japanese painting of Chinese origin, which she does not necessarily follow the conventional rules of technique, while respecting its essence. She uses it as a source and personal method. The sheet of Japanese paper, its fibers, absorbs the contours; the Indian ink allows her sometimes to bring out a caressing and fragile line and sometimes a voluminous black flat.In addition, the artist has already collaborated with poets on the illustration of books ("Arborescences" by Michel Collot published by Tarabuste, "Dites trentre-trois, c'est un poème" by Werner Lambersy published by Le dé bleu or in the collection "Eventail", also with Werner Lambersy).The works of Sho Asakawa take us into the world of imagination and dreams. His inks are subtle, secret, abstract, gestural, impregnated with nature, calling to consciousness. Breathing, mystery and trembling! Pudimentarily, the artist speaks of "sacred sensation" or "beatitude".
  

  

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