Kae Sasaki: I hear it well but scarcely grasp it.
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Kae Sasaki, "I hear it well but scarcely grasp it III," 2020
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Artist talk: Kae Sasaki's artist talk, which was originally scheduled for Friday, 20 March at 7 PM, has been formatted to better aid and promote social distancing. Kae's talk will be launched online at a later date.
This series of interior paintings of Teatro alla Scala in Milan culminated from her experience in a production of die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, a Wagner opera once famously misappropriated by the Nazis, set in an allegorical post-war 1950's Germany. The uneasy, ironic parallel she drew to the Berlin Pact of 1940 from her attendance as Japanese patron at a German opera, written by a composer suspected of his anti-semitism and performed in once Mussolini Italy, was shared by an Italian audience as the opera had not been performed at la Scala for 27 years.
About Kae Sasaki: Sasaki is a Winnipeg-based visual artist and holds a BA in German Literature from Rikkyo University in Tokyo and BFA Honours in Painting from the School of Art at the University of Manitoba. She has exhibited her work across Canada and has been shortlisted for the Kingston Prize (2015/17/19), the Salt Spring National Art Prize (2017) and the Jackson's Painting Prize (2018/19).