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Uraraka MATSUZAWA was born in Chiba, Japan in 1979. A graduate of the University of Fine Arts in Tama (Tokyo), she moved to France in Lyon in 2011.
She uses the millenary techniques of Nihon-ga painting and renews this traditional art through the abstraction of Western painting. Uraraka brings all the materials she uses from Japan: washi paper that she stretches herself on plywood, iwaénogu paint made from natural pigments from crushed semi-precious stones (cinnabar, malchite, azurite, jade, obsidian, lapis lazuli...) mixed by hand with an animal skin glue called Nikawa prepared hot and a little water. She paints on the floor, without an easel, as the composition of the paint does not allow it to be applied vertically.
2002-2004
Tama University of Fine Arts. Japan. Traditional Nihon-ga painting. Master equivalent (Bac + 6). Mention very well, recipient of the Horikoshi Taijiro scholarship.
1998-2002
Tokyokasei University. Tokyo, Japan. Plastic Arts. Licence equivalent (Bac + 4).
1995-1998
Uekusa High School, Chiba, Japan.
01/2018
Valérie Eymeric Gallery in Lyon
12/2017
L’Aqueduc Pôle culture in Dardillys
6-8/2017
Sevette Barn Museum in Haute-Savoie
04/2017
Espace bertin poirée at the Franco-Japanese School in Paris
11/2015
Valérie Eymeric Gallery in Lyon
10/2015
At Pierre-François BREUILH Expertises Statutory Auditor Auctioneer
08/2006
In a gallery at the Kawamura Memorial Museum, Japan
12/2003
The Gekkousou Gallery. Ginza, Japan
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