Let us know if you would like to see more photos of this artwork!
- Back of the work / Side of the work
- Details / Signature / Artwork's surface or texture
- Artwork in situation, Other...
Let us know if you would like to see more photos of this artwork!
- Back of the work / Side of the work
- Details / Signature / Artwork's surface or texture
- Artwork in situation, Other...
TAKAKEISHO SUMOTORI 貴景勝 光信 (2021) Drawing by Iñaki Martinez De Arbulo
More info
- Packaging (Tube) All artworks are shipped with a premium carrier, carefully protected and insured.
- Tracking Order tracking until the parcel is delivered to the buyer. A tracking number will be provided so that you can follow the parcel in real-time.
- Delay Worldwide delivery in 3 to 7 days (Estimate)
- Customs not included The price does not include customs fees. Most countries have no import tax for original artworks, but you may have to pay the reduced VAT. Customs fees (if any) are to be calculated on arrival by the customs office and will be billed separately by the carrier.
More info
- Trackable Online Certificate of Authenticity Authenticity Certificates can be verified online at any moment by scanning the artwork code.
- Artist Value Certification Experts study the work and career of an artist then establish an independent and reliable average price value. The average price value situates the artist on a price range for a given period. The experts may also be asked to establish a more precise estimate for a particular work.
More info
100% secure payment with SSL certificate + 3D Secure.
More info
Sold by Iñaki Martinez De Arbulo
This image is available for download with a licence
Sold by Iñaki Martinez De Arbulo
-
Original Artwork (One Of A Kind)
Drawing,
Ink
on Paper
- Dimensions Height 15.8in, Width 11.4in
- Framing This artwork is not framed
- Categories Drawings under $500 Oriental Art World Culture
Many ancient traditions have been preserved in sumo, and even today the sport includes many ritual elements, such as the use of salt purification, from the days when sumo was used in the Shinto religion. Life as a wrestler is highly regulated, with the rules set by the Sumo Association. Most sumo wrestlers are required to live in "sumo training stables", known in Japanese as "heya", where all aspects of their daily life - from their meals to their dress - are dictated by a strict tradition.
In this work, I have made a pen and ink drawing of one of the most famous Sumo wrestlers (Sumotori) in Japan today. His name is Takakeisho and he occupies one of the top positions in the current Sumo ranking. The immensity of these gigantic fighters, their soft lines, their strength coupled with a shy character, have made me see Takakeisho in this drawing as if it were a great giant baby ..!
Related themes
Painting for me is an act of reflection. It means starting a trip inside, a return to an original mythological silence. It is to enter a noisy silence, contemplative emptiness full of sense. My years of artistic preparation studying traditional painting in Japan (Sumi-e), made me rediscover my environment with new eyes. The combination of my solid artistic formation in the University of Seville in Spain and my research studies in the University of Tokio showed me a particular suggestive language through which I try to build an emotional bridge with an intuitive perception of the infinity. In my works there is a moment of detained contemplation, an effort to make the ephemeral permanent, to see the immobile and the immutable through the oasis of the calm reflexive contemplation. I pretend to make people feel the presence of the impalpable, of magic, of ineffable things … The technique I use in my paintings promotes transparency, glaze, the light coming from the inside of the painting. The quality of the colours that I use is essential. It is a mixed technique that includes acrylic paint together with oil painting with natural pigments. With a texture obtained with the use of different types of sand, I intend to look for an “epidermis” for the painting that is sensitive as well as vibrating at the same time. In none of my painting the human being has a place; it is not necessary; it is in the first place, always present by evocation. All in all, I pretend for my paintings to act as resonances for the engrossing vigilant spectator. My paintings want to become “figurative” spaces that tend to the Absolute. Suggestion and evocation; they try to tell without pronouncing. As Arthur Rimbaud said: “There are other worlds, but they are in this one”. Less
Education:
- Seville University of Fine Arts, Seville - Spain
- Tokio University of Fine Arts. Japanese Traditional
Painting – Sumi – E
Curriculum Vitae
- 1955 born in Vitoria-Spain
- Top graduate of Fine Arts University of Seville - Spain
- Scholarship of the Department of Culture of Japan for studies of investigation
on Traditional Japanese Painting (Sumi --e). Faculty of Fine Arts of Tokyo.
- Collective exhibition “ Spanish Painters in Japan ”.
- “The IXth International Exhibition France-Japan “ National Museum Grand
Palais of Paris.
- The second Award in the Contest XLII of Art of Alava – Spain
- The first Award in the National Award IV San Roque's City (Cadiz) Spain.
- Exhibition Gallery Luis de Jauría (Vitoria) Spain.
- Exhibition Palace Ambassadors (San Roque-Cadiz) Spain.
- The director of the School of Fine Arts of Vitoria-Spain.
- Works are in:
- Palace of Town Suso of Vitoria. Spain.
- University of Seville
- Palace of the Lázarraga (Alava) Spain
- Town Hall of Vitoria. Spain.
- San Roque's Town Hall. Spain
- House of Culture of Kamakura. Japan.
- Particular collections in France, Japan and Spain.
-
Nationality:
SPAIN
- Date of birth : 1955
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Spanish Artists
See more from Iñaki Martinez De Arbulo
