Sawako Nasu《Scooping the Moon》

Sawako Nasu

Title: Scooping the Moon

Year: 2024

Medium: Oil on canvas

Size: 1400 × 350 mm

Price: ¥363,000 (tax incl.)

Concept

Sawako Nasu speaks of distance, connection and relation through the language of painting. Looking back on her own practice she often asks, "How can I ever touch a painting made long ago?" Underlying her work is a gaze fixed on the absolute, unbridgeable distance that lies between the classical and modernist painting she loves — and the eras they belong to — and herself, standing here in the present; it is precisely that sense of distance that gives her art its uncompromising vision. Setting the age of classical painting against the age to which she, as a person of today, belongs, Nasu takes up the question of what painting can still do. Her stance reaches well beyond personal interest: it carries a distinctly contemporary awareness, one that searches for what remains possible at the leading edge of an art history that is forever being rewritten.

■ Shipping & Handover

・Works are handed over approximately 2-3 weeks after the exhibition closes. We will contact you by email once your work is ready.

・In-store pickup: the work can be collected in person at biscuit gallery (Shinjuku, Tokyo).

* This work is also offered for sale at the gallery, so depending on timing it may already have been sold.