Makiko Kudo

Empathy

€400

Edition of 12060.0 (H) × 48.0 (W) cm

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Japanese artist Makiko Kudo paints a world defined by the quiet tensions between melancholy and peace, youth and maturity, reality and imagination. Her pallet is soft yet varied, built up in thin layers of oil paint. Like her inspirations - modernist painters, childhood television shows and Japanese art - she seeks to provide escapism from the rigid structure of daily life and expectations.

Empathy, a limited print edition released in 2021, is an archival pigment print portraying a girl holding a koala bear in a lush and thriving land. The limited print editions are signed and numbered by Makiko Kudo.

Makiko Kudo’s Empathy has sold out. The good news? We will release new editions by Makiko Kudo in the future, available to buy online at Avant Arte.

Makiko Kudo smiling with paintings behind her

Makiko Kudo2 collaborationsMakiko Kudo’s whimsical scenes are populated by girls, trees, grass, flowers and small animals. Her palette is soft but varied, built up in thin layers of oil paint. The works are inspired by modernist painters like Claude Monet and Willem de Kooning, as well as classical Japanese art, and childhood television shows like Heidi, Girl of the Alps (1974). Stylistically, the manga-esque figures join the Superflat movement spearheaded by Takashi Murakami. The social context of growing up in Japan is also important to Kudo. As she explains, her generation sought to resist rigid social expectations of their parents' generation. This was intensified by the rise of alternate realities like cartoons and computer games, providing escapism from the ‘real world.’ Likewise, Kudo’s paintings proffer an exciting fantasy realm for their viewer to escape into.

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