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Tatakauzo

Tatakauzo is a French artist who began painting in 1998 after an artistic revelation during a retrospective dedicated to Keith Haring at the MoMA in San Francisco. This experience acted as a true trigger and marked the beginning of an instinctive and free pictorial practice.

His painting develops in a spontaneous, almost automatic gesture: shapes appear without prior sketching and the composition is built progressively, guided by the energy of the moment and the images surrounding him.

Tatakauzo works with great freedom of techniques and supports. Acrylic often forms the base of his canvases, but he willingly mixes India ink, oil pastels, and different mediums, using whatever is at hand to enrich the matter and the vibration of the painting.

His universe is also nourished by numerous stays in Japan, from which he draws graphic intensity, neon lights and urban effervescence. This influence is reflected in his abstract compositions, where colors and lines dialogue and clash in a dynamics that is almost electrical.

Tatakauzo's work has been presented in several exhibitions in Paris, Osaka and Tokyo, and his works are today part of several private collections.

His paintings explore a territory between inner energy, instinctive gesturality and contemporary urban pulsation.


Inner Fire

Inner Fire is an abstract composition where colors seem to wage a real battle, like a fire burning inside. Spontaneous gestures, splashes and overlays create a strong visual tension, between chaos and balance, revealing an almost organic energy.

Made in a small format of 40 × 40 cm, the work concentrates great intensity. Acrylic is blended with inks and oil pastels, creating vibrant materials and contrasts.

In his work, TATAKAUZO has been developing for several years an instinctive and gestural painting where color, material and movement become the main vectors of emotion.

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