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1980年東京生まれ。日本で日本画を学んだ後、2006 年にスペインに留学、その後、生活の拠点をバルセロナに据え、日本画をベースに平面、立体作品を展開している。幼い頃の自身の体験の記憶を絵に表すことを原点に、強烈な色彩と繊細かつ精巧な線画による独特な世界像を作りだしている。楽しいことだけではなく、悲哀や怒りが混在する人間の欲望の根源という普遍的なテーマを追求し、特に、一貫したモチーフとなっている花とそこに描かれた顔は、ユーモアに溢れているいとうの独自性を表している。
Mari Ito was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1980. She majored in Nihonga, Japanese-style painting made with traditional practices, techniques, and materials. She moved to Barcelona, Spain in 2006. Since then she has taken up residence here and with Nihonga as her base she has developed various 2-D and sculptural works. With her motif centered upon her childhood experiences, loud colors and sensitive but sophisticated lines create unique works beyond traditional Japanese painting, opening up a unique image of the world. In pursuing the universal theme of the seeds of human desire, with its mix of happiness, sorrow and wrath, and in particular through the recurring image of flowers with faces, she reveals her distinctive approach, which is also filled with humor.