The technique :

This work "Untitled" measuring 65 cm x 50 cm is both a calligraphy in Indian ink on tissue paper and an acrylic painting with gouache highlights for the blue and ocher colors.

It is part of a long series of ranges which are built up over time in this limited palette of ink, royal blue and light yellow ocher.

The symbolism:

From a symbolic point of view for the artist, the color blue represents: fluid spirit, anti-stagnation, depth, hope.

The color ocher: earth, heat, light.

The elements of calligraphy structure the composition in the vertical plane, a constant in the work of Kaoru Tsuzawa, fascinated by the perfection of the vertical embodied by the tree in nature.

They are also the trace of an energy released in the moment and the breath after a meditation and a state of emptiness, the artist, heir to the long immemorial Japanese tradition, executes his movement after having thought it deeply.

Heart and mind are one. Zen philosophy permeates the work of Kaoru Tsuzawa who works like a monk and at the same time cultivates his free will and freedom.

There is frequently a pair, a single vertical shape or an arabesque which is the trace of the movement made in a single breath. When the brush returns to the paper, another trace is deposited and immediately flies away.

The Japanese characters sometimes unfold as in this drawing painting and signify without meaning. We can imagine the gesture that gave birth to this lively and tense form.

Everyone will be able to see what they want to project there. Motionless movement. Tension. Energy.

Kaoru is a letterist, a symbolist, an expressionist, a calligrapher and a painter of matter and galaxies. Microcosm or macrocosm, it is the production of the cosmic warrior that I see in him and that I think he is deeply.

Suresnes November 23, 2016

Bernard Garnier de Labareyre