Introduction
Née à Nagoya, au Japon, Kyoko Dufo vit et travaille actuellement à Boulogne-Billancourt, en région parisienne.
Après avoir étudié d’abord au Mexique, elle a poursuivi ses études à l’Académie Julien en France. La Côte d’Ivoire et le Nigeria, où elle a vécu, ont élargi son univers de la peinture et l’ont aidée à développer son propre style, combinant les cultures japonaise et africaine.
Exprimant un univers onirique et naïf, elle a pu collaborer comme illustratrice avec plusieurs maisons d’éditions, françaises (Bayard, Tourbillon), ivoiriennes (Nei, Nimba), japonaises (Kodansha, Child, Chuokoron-Sinsha), et obtenu en 2001 le premier prix du concours de livres illustrés de la galerie Pinpoint à Tokyo.
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THE PAINTING OF KYOKO DUFAUX
Art has always played an important role in Kyoko Dufaux’s life. From the very first glance at one of her paintings, one can feel an emotion of poetic simplicity rise from the folds of memory, all the more strange and familiar because it is not hindered by any of the barriers that age strives to erect between the world and childhood. This continuity of a magical figuration of the imagination in the artist’s existence reminds us that the language of symbols was created to respond to the need to escape from the gregarious forms of reality in order to reach out,
perhaps to explain, those of dreams, visions, marvellous phantasmagorias that will never cease to live within us.
Kyoko Dufaux was born in Nagoya, Japan. During the empty hours, which lie still and endless at the beginning of life, the influence of Buddhism taught her to contemplate nature, to absorb herself in its unexpected and marvellous forms, in its bright or fading colours, in the enchanting astonishment of the seasons’ finery. […]
If the naive and powerful inspiration of the Douanier Rousseau shines through in Kyoko Dufaux’s work, it is nuanced by the allusive and subtle evanescence of traditional Japanese poetry, and more particularly by the fascinating meditative concentration found in haiku. […]
In Kyoko Dufaux’s painting, an unknown space emerges where it becomes possible, as the extraordinary poet Rilke said, “to hear things sing”. Mexico, where the artist studied, the Ivory Coast, and Nigeria, where she lived, have broadened the atmosphere of her paintings to the point where they are able to reproduce that light of the world which appears to us in moments of grace and under which, in the time of an illumination, the secret harmony present in everything is discovered, fleetingly and maliciously, like the smile of Buddha.
Tristan Jordis, Writer
Profile
Solo exhibitions
2021 “L’enquête de l’amour de la nature” Maison Wa, Paris
2020 “Animality” Marchal&Co, Boulogne-Billancourt
2018
“Night train in the milky way “Tom’s garden, Nagoya
“Night train in the milky way” Opale-Sud Media Library, Berck sur Mer
2017 “Animality” Collete, Paris
2016
“Gravitazione” Paraventi Giapponesi, Milan
“Otsukimi” Maison de Kiso, Paris
2015 “Andel “Wakabayashi, Nagoya
2014 “Tea for you” Arte Giappone, Milano
2013
“Paris Sky” Arte Giappone, Milan
“Swimming Animals” Galerie Grand E’terna, Paris
2012
“Autumn” Reverse, Tokyo
“Fantasia” Arte Giappone, Milan
“The engineer and the sacred forest” SAMAN, Milano
2011 “Ancient japanese tales” Arte Giappone, Milan
2009 “Piisuke no sora” Otaru City Museum, Otaru
2007 “Old Tales in Africa” Arts Pluriels Gallery, Ivory Coast
Group exhibitions, art fairs
2020 “Salon 4 Art” Paris
2015
“AESOP by 100 artists” Pinpoint Gallery, Tokyo
“Les insectes” Grand E’terna Gallery, Paris
2014
“Witch by 100 artists” Pinpoint Gallery, Tokyo
“MEBENGA” Como, Tokyo
2013
“One thousand and one nights by100 artists” Pinpoint gallery, Tokyo
“Collectif des arts 9&18e Paris” Lycée Jacques Decour, Paris
“Sennin” Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, UAE
2012
“Nonsense literature by 100 artists” Pinpoint gallery, Tokyo
“Night Story” Spazio Misura, Milano
2011
“Little red riding hood by 100 artists” Pinpoint Gallery, Tokyo
International Art Fair in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Publications
2021 “Il était une forêt” Edition Nimba, Ivory Coast
2020 “Les atomes des bois” Editions du pont suspendu, Paris,
2018 “ANDEL” Chuokoron shinsya, Tokyo
2017 “J’aime lire, la poésie” Bayard, Paris, “ANDEL” Chuokoron shinsya, Tokyo
2016 “J’aime lire, la poésie” Bayard, Paris, “ANDEL” Chuokoron shinsya, Tokyo
2015 “ANDEL” Chuokoron shinsya, Tokyo
2013 “Le petit cheval rouge de Dalarna” NEI, Ivory Coast
2011 “Jiraigen no ponn” Kodansha, Tokyo
2010 “Haiti” NEI, Ivory Coast
2009
“Ayanda”, “Tout Rond” NEI, Ivory Coast
“Kabano chindonyasan” SeiryuShuppann, Tokyo
2008
“The little blue boy” NEI, Ivory Coast
“Piisukeno-sora2” Child, Tokyo
2007 “Piisukeno-sora1” Child, Tokyo
2006 “Jeux d’Insectes” Opie, Paris
2003 “Un monstre dans la ville” Ebournée, Ivory Coast
2002
“Refugees and Mines” Sodobunka, Tokyo
“Winter fact in Lapland” Tourbillon, Paris