The art of Tomoko is a special art, different from what we are usually accustomed to seeing. Her work, which has only a hint of ancient Japanese tradition, brings out instead an extremely new and extremely personal style. Whether it’s a burst of colour or black hatching on white canvas, these works are all loaded with enormous internal energy that governs the musicality of the composition and merges with the movement, sometimes sinuous, sometimes more geometrical, of its forms.
Tomoko Fait performs her work with great meticulousness: in fact, each sign, each single trace in the painting is done strictly by hand, using a technique that consists of making tiny dots that together form a representation of large dimensions.
In works such as “Creation and Light” (2002) or “illusion” (2008), the canvas is densely decorated until every millimeter is used, creating images full of joy and great intensity. On the other hand, in a work like “The three wise men” (2003), in addition to the world of flowers and decorations from a past that is distant to us, there is also the human figure, but this is only hinted at in the faces in a picture that are far from an anatomical and realistic rendering, but traced as if to interrupt the soft rhythm of decorative texture, exploding in patterns of black and bright red.
Despite the poetry that comes alive in the compositions of this artist, all her work is marked by great precision; it seems almost as though a geometrical order also lurks behind the seemingly freer forms. Rigour, therefore, is the basis of her modus operandi and characterises the attention to even the smallest detail, and it is these microscopic signs that form the whole representation.
However, although Tomoko Fait uses such a precise technique, a sense of magic reigns in her works, of a universe made immense by the multitude of points that trace beautiful pictures, sometimes halfway between dreams and evasion in an unknown dimension.
Interiority and originality are the key elements in the activity of this artist, whose works project the viewer into an enchanted, suspended world – a world in which every effort of interpretation seems to fade, giving way to a purely sensory reception, or rather to a loss of the senses in new universes.
Lea Ficca
Il Muro mag
Latina, April 2013.
