TAKASHI SUZUKI
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Takashi Suzuki is widely regarded as one of the foremost masters of non-objective painting from Japan. For several years he has worked with the notion of colour fields, often combining equal sized monochrome canvases to form groups or diptychs. As the artist notes: ‘these balanced assemblies of small-scale canvases are arranged like music, each colour a note - each work a melody.’ Over the past year Suzuki’s paintings have increased in scale and most recently the artist has returned to making works encompassed in a single canvas.
The group of works recently exhibited at Bartha Contemporary were all painted on canvases of a portrait proportion, internally divided in three individual horizontal colour fields, which are separated by a barely visible line of raw canvas. The delicate interplay between the different sized colour fields is carefully balanced by adjusting the weight and luminescence of the colours.
Earlier works often harboured an element of three-dimensionality, over the years he has worked with a number of materials including cast and painted wax surfaces on both canvases as well as purposes build panels.
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