Born from a French mother, and educated in France, Sebastien Kito showed the desire to explore the culture of his other country, Japan, and conceived an original thought from this confrontation of its double origins. 

       Sebastien Kito first follows the steps of his father Akira Kito,  one of the most significant Japanese artists in Paris since to 1945, and of his grandfather and grand-grandfather, by studying painting. He enters Paris National School of Fine Arts in 1985. Hoping to find the spirit of the Cobra group in which his father had taken part in the Fifties, it attends Pierre Alechinsky classes. In the same time, he works for artists of New-Realism, as Raymond Hains. In spite of a heavy family heritage and prestigious professors, Sebastien Kito quickly finds his own way, enriched by all these profitable meetings.

   He first conceives kind of  mobiles cut out folding screens, and of painted cut out and articulated supports. Articulation is a central term for Kito's work. It leads to a second step, the design of giant hinges names the Extragonds. 

    Sebastien Kito currently keeps on playing with form and color with articulated and cut out sculptures, often carrying anthropomorphic reminiscence. Its sculptures address one ludic invitation to join the spaceinvested by work or to transform it by moving a part of the evolutionary structure. These particular relations of work with space are close to the Japaneseconcept of ma, which indicates the spacial or temporal interval between two things, as significant as the two elements which limit it.

With apparent simplicity  Sebastien Kito manages to suggest complex relations or interactions between his sculptures and space.

    THE WORKS

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Family

1997, aluminium, 270 cm.

Family

1998, aluminium, 30 cm.

Beak

1998, aluminium, 73 cm.

Ganesh, elephant God

1998, aluminium, 65 cm.

Mother fish

1998, aluminium, 0,33 x 0,90 cm.

Angles

1998, aluminium, 67 cm.

Totem

1998, steel, 310 cm.

First Franco-Japanese Artistic Meeting, Baisieux, april 2003

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