Keisuke Takeda is a student of MA Fine Art in Chelsea College of Art, UK 2020-2021. Painting is Keisuke's primary art form. Poetry is his main source of inspiration. This attitude is based on a concrete theory. All kinds of aesthetic works, throughout history, have been cultivated in resonant dialogues between you and the universe, your spirit and body, you and your possessions, you and I. Human beings have been discovering new senses and values in these resonances. He believes, poetry began to represent the resonance for the first time in human history about 4000 years ago. Even in recent history, a celebrated poet Arthur Rimbaud(1854-1891) confirms this notion by saying it in his letter(1870): "For I is someone else If brass wakes up a trumpet, it is not it's fault. This is obvious to me: I am present at this birth of my thought: I watch it and listen to it: I draw a stroke of the bow: the symphony makes it's stir in the depths, or comes on to the stage in a leap." Keisuke believes, this opinion proved that human resonant ability exists, therefore, poetry is the origin of his ideas. Keisuke as a painter has been pursuing this concept of "resonance". After the emergence of Covid-19, our lives were completely changed. We cannot casually do anything. Everything is more difficult and rigid than before. Hence, Keisuke began to cherish moments of the ordinary life. He perceived existences of poetic illuminations in the ordinary. Floating clouds in the blue breezy sky. Water movements silently recurring on the lake and the erosion of streams, stars slightly twinkling in the pale night city sky give us a hint that the earth is rotating, which is part of our deep experience. We are standing there. We could sense the truth despite the fact that is not easy. Whereas, Some poets and artists have been representing the truth. Some of them are Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926), Guillevic(1907-1997), Theodore Roethke(1908-1963), Alex Katz(1927) and Alberto Giacometti(1901-1966). Giacometti was a sculptor as well as a painter. In both of his art forms, he represents the core of our existences that have transformative repetition of the concept of to be and not to be.60% of the human body is water.Water is ever flowing, never stopping, never defined by form. Water could include everything also stream into something. Our existence has this transformative, repetitive capacity like water.We have been mutually affected in the world. He tried to curtail all of these mixtures from the human body, and reveal only the core of our existence in his artwork. Oppositely, Keisuke has been attempting to draw movements of a human form that include all mixtures as same as water on his painting. In the work, he realizes, all of us have ever been moving, never stopping in an unredeemable time stream as mortals. Therefore, we could feel poetic illuminations of life. Keisuke as a painter has been striving to represent the poetic illumination.
References Rimbaud, Arthur(1871) Parisian War Song/ Spring is evident for..... Complete Works, Selected Letters(A Bilingual Edition) Published by The University of Chicago Press 2005