“S\u00e9bastien Kito is an artist of withdrawal. He is also an artist of lines, as his refined sculpture tends to become a simple vertical or curved line. Curved, in fact, because the world he draws is of the cosmic order. The earth is round, space is curved, trees are ellipses.”
Claude Mollard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sculptor S\u00e9bastien Kito lives and works in Paris. Born of a French mother, and raised in France, S\u00e9bastien Kito has shown a desire to explore the culture of his other country, Japan, and has conceived an original way of thinking based on this confrontation of his dual origins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00e9bastien Kito first followed in the footsteps of his father Akira Kito, who was one of the most important Japanese artists in post-1945 Paris, and of his grandfather and great-grandfather, by studying painting. In 1985, he was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Sup\u00e9rieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hoping to recapture the spirit of the Cobra group in which his father had participated in the 1950s, he frequented Pierre Alechinsky’s studio. At the same time, he worked for Nouveau-R\u00e9alisme artists, notably Raymond Hains, whose assistant he became in 1983. Despite a strong family heritage and prestigious teachers, S\u00e9bastien Kito quickly found his own path, enriched by all these fruitful encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His first projects were mobile screens with hollowed-out centers, and paintings on cut-out and articulated supports. The latter is the basis of his thinking, and serves as the foundation for a second major step, the design of giant hinges known as Extragonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00e9bastien Kito is currently investigating form and color through mobile, articulated and hollowed-out sculptures, often bearing anthropomorphic or animal reminiscences. His sculptures are a playful invitation to join the space occupied by the work, or to transform it by moving one of the parts of the evolving structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These particular relationships between work and space are akin to the Japanese concept of Ma, which designates the spatial or temporal interval between two things, as important as the two elements that limit it. With the greatest apparent simplicity, S\u00e9bastien Kito succeeds in suggesting complex relationships or interactions between sculptures and space, between full and empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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