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Setsuko Klossowska de Rola (born January 1, 1942) is a Japanese painter. She has exhibited her work internationally, and is also a writer. She became UNESCO 's Artist For Peace in 2005. She is the widow of the French painter, Balthus, and is honorary president of the Balthus Foundation. [1]
Working across many mediums—including bronze, ceramics, and gouache—Setsuko Klossowska de Rola renders tranquil subjects with rich, tactile surfaces. Her work connects natural and constructed elements, representing the symbiosis of life and death, growth and decay.
Setsuko will lead a tour of her exhibition Into the Trees at Gagosian, Paris, with gallery director Jean-Olivier Després. The artist will discuss what led her to ceramics and the infinite malleability and expressiveness of clay, as well as the imagery in her paintings.
I am honored to be a part of the upcoming group show ‘Un Hiver à Paris’ @alminerech gallery. It opens this Saturday from 10 - 5:30pm, 64 Tue de Turenne 75003 Paris
8 de sept. de 2022 · Rome’s Villa Medici exerts a singular pull on the Tokyo-born artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola. The wife of the French painter Balthus spent 15 formative years living in the Renaissance...
Setsuko Klossowska de Rola and Benoît Astier de Villatte, of the Astier de Villatte atelier in Paris, first met at the Académie de France in Rome’s Villa Medici, where Setsuko lived when her late husband, the painter Balthus, was the school’s director.
9 de nov. de 2018 · The Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel is devoting a retrospective exhibition to the legendary artist Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (1908–2001), known as Balthus. The show is the first...
