In China and Japan
Sho do (the method of
writing art) is a highly respected art with a tradition dating
back over 3,000 years. Moods and feelings are expressed with
an entire scale of watercolour nuances - characters become works
of art. In the West artists such as Mir?or Monet took up the
Chinese-Japanese calligraphy and utilised it in their works.
Sanae Sakamoto stems from a family of calligraphers, and
was born and raised in Tokyo/Japan. Even as a child she received
calligraphy lessons from her grandmother Hana Sakamoto, a
famous master craftswoman of the Meiji period. Sanae Sakamoto
was raised according to Buddhist precepts. She studied Japanese
and Chinese literature. In addition to a university degree
in Tokyo she also earned the Japanese and Chinese master titles
in calligraphy. She has lived in Switzerland since 1971 and
teaches as a freelance artist at the School for Design in
Basel. She has had many individual exhibitions in Switzerland,
Japan, Germany and the USA since 1984.
The exhibition "Painted thoughts - bridges which lead to
other worlds" was featured in September and October 2000 at
Burkert in Ingelfingen. Fourteen paper flags as well as 57
smaller images were suspended throughout rooms and corridors
in the foyer of the research and development centre. In addition
to characters, calligraphy works, modern watercolour paintings,
abstract and representational paintings featuring watercolours
and delicate colours as well as collages were exhibited. The
art from Sanae Sakamoto goes beyond the traditional writing
style. She perceives her purpose in life as awakening interest
and understanding for her art and fostering the breaching
of the gap between cultures.
Art emerges from meditative contemplation: Calligraphy and
painting from Sanae Sakamoto.
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