The artist,

Kaoru Tsuzawa, peaceful warrior monk of painting, will take over Villa Violet from November 19 to 22 with a magnificent set of paintings created for the “Cosmic Warrior” exhibition mounted on an initiative by Bernard Garnier de Labareyre.

This discreet 64-year-old Japanese man, introduced to art in Japan at the age of 6 by Kimie TANAKA, a disciple of Foujita, has lived and painted in France for 40 years. An art monk, he follows a regular discipline which makes his painting practice a daily spiritual exercise. Far from any dandyism or extravagance, between Kendo and Shakuhachi (Japanese flute) he tirelessly explores and researches the play of colors and shapes. Gestural and liberated, his painting is often as poetic and concise as a haiku. Barely narrative and above all sensory, it unfolds from medium to medium and has been building a sprawling work for decades. She absorbs all kinds of objects, naive figures, impurities of colors and materials to compose a large temporal fresco which is constantly fragmented and recomposed. From canvas to canvas, Kaoru explores worlds and creates galaxies the size of a postcard up to the 10 by 2 meter Makimono. He gives life to countless children as he calls his works and continues his quest.

For the “Cosmic Warrior” exhibition, Kaoru Tsuzawa specially painted a series of meditative paintings, in a narrow palette where the blues are as much the skies as the still waters that reflect them. The lines of the trees end up becoming abstract in their graphic simplicity. The recurring symbols of the paintings are weightless, as if sucked in by the flight of time. The masters who inspire him are there, but Kaoru's poetic fantasy takes him well beyond time to conquer infinite space.

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