Keiko Mataki
Keiko Mataki is a Japanese artist who lives and works alternately in Japan and Spain. The latter being her adopted country because she has lived there for many years.
Studies of Fine Arts in Japan and Spain as well as the study of ceramics at the Ceramics School of La Moncloa (Madrid). Gaudi and Miro are his Maestros. She has made many urban sculptures: the Miyakonojo bridge in Japan, Taiyo Square in Cuenca which are made of concrete and ceramic. Fun places where you can play, meditate, admire the light.
She is currently working on the Wa (round) and Wa (peace) shape. Hence the Wa no Wa (peace workshops) for children who cut out circles of cardboard covered with fabric and which, linked together, form a long multicolored chain of solidarity, of peace. Allusion also to the circles of the Olympic Games which will take place precisely in Japan soon.
Her work with children does not stop there since she has always made unique artist’s books which are also real geometric sculptures, what she calls “the book without words”.
