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Ryo Arita

Rio

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Ryo Arita(Rio)

Concept

I work with food, on food, and around food. The Japanese Zen concept of food as both sustenance and transitory perishable art, pleasing to the senses and meant to be ingested and transformed as life-sustaining energy, is an inspiration for my art.

“Kamikaze Nori Bento”, rendered in Koshihikari ri...
I work with food, on food, and around food. The Japanese Zen concept of food as both sustenance and transitory perishable art, pleasing to the senses and meant to be ingested and transformed as life-sustaining energy, is an inspiration for my art.

“Kamikaze Nori Bento”, rendered in Koshihikari rice and Nori seaweed, are faces of sacrifice in the mediums of the land and sea that sustained them and for which they perished; a powerfully compelling, transitory, visually, physically, and emotionally ingestible, digestible Zen.

Through my use of food-as-media, I confront the common man and the common mass at the survival-instinct level. It is a media at once fragile, perishable, recognizable, transforming, and nourishing. “Sensual Sight and Spirit Bites” is how I view my recent works, ‘Transitory Spiritual Morsels’.

The Japanese Zen concept of food is also how I view my work and creative process: as artwork – beautiful, powerfully-compelling to primary instincts; and statements made in a media perishable, edible, yet timeless: physically, and emotionally compelling “Sound Bites”; “Spiritual Hors d’ Oeuvres –In-Time”, for man on his multi-levels of existence.

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“Ryo Arita's Artworks”

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K26

USD 2,000.00 Year.2018 w50.00 x h75.00 x d10.00 cm

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K20

USD 2,000.00 Year.2018 w50.00 x h70.00 x d10.00 cm

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K32

USD 2,000.00 Year.2018 w50.00 x h69.10 x d10.00 cm

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K14

USD 2,000.00 Year.2022 w50.00 x h61.40 x d10.00 cm

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USD $2,000 ~ $2,000

Biography

Growing up both of my parents worked in the restaurant industry. My father, as a sushi chef, illustrated the interwoven concepts of composition and sustenance, color and flavor, food, and art. The concept of continuity and evenness play a large role in my work. Made from food, my works are temporal,...
Growing up both of my parents worked in the restaurant industry. My father, as a sushi chef, illustrated the interwoven concepts of composition and sustenance, color and flavor, food, and art. The concept of continuity and evenness play a large role in my work. Made from food, my works are temporal, like life’s experience. They rot, edible yet timeless, a compelling statement to primary instincts. I aim to continue my study of the world’s culinary traditions, as well as artistic techniques that involve the universal language of food.

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