Aya Takano

Aya Takano's drawings and paintings reminds us the delicious souvenirs of game and innocence with a desarming sincerity and without ever sink into nostalgia. Althought her univers is filled with mythic and cultural references, specificly japanese, she attains to make this univers strangely familiar an itimate. The immediate, the sensuality of her drawings adress a message to the living and to the imaginative part of each of us, whathever his age or his origine. Once discovered, her work provoque a profound, and almost affectionate, attachment for the characters she brin,gs to life. The use of diluted paint ( gouache, acrylic) as principal medium reinforces the sensual simplicity of her images which combines the febrility of a child's drawing and the virtuosity of the remarkable drawer she has become. ( Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami)