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Contiguous Zone-Japanese Contemporary Arts Exhibition
by AKI Gallery
Location: AKI Gallery
Artist(s): GROUP SHOW
Date: 2 Nov - 1 Dec 2013

In the end of 2013, AKI Gallery will collaborate with three galleries from Japan, including Gallery Kogure, hpgrp Gallery Tokyo and YOD Gallery, creating “Contiguous Zone-Japanese Contemporary Arts Exhibition”. The group show presented by nine artists will offer audience a unique and Japan-exclusive art experience. The great navigator Christopher Columbus once said, “Dare to pursue the new horizon exactly adventurer.” When Columbus began the east-bound journey against conventions without turning back, he achieved not only the great spirit of adventure but changing the world boundary forever. The exhibition is not attempting to convey the audience by the conceptual boundary of society, politics or nation what Japanese contemporary art is. Instead, we explore beyond horizon and select works by nine artists, developing a scene of Japanese contemporary art without borders.

Are you ready to go on an adventure with the nine artists? Takato Yamamoto combines traditional Ukiyo-e art with Pop art in a style of “morbidity and dejection” and brings out the imagery of splendid death.

Takahiro Hirabayashi’s portrait figures under his “aesthetics of wound” are like ghost ships sailing into the heavy fog-stern and painful.

Expressing self anxiety by portraits in the same way, Kanako Ohya’s works are not that fragile and mottled as Takahiro Hirabayashi. She uses objects in everyday life such as girls’s dresses and cosmetic containers to reflect the distracted and struggling life.

From self inspection to social observation, Hisaharu Motoda seeks to create a subtle struggling in the post modern world by depicting ruins and deserted buildings in the future theme.

Similarly, Shoichi Mukai treats the fear and anxiety of the next generation in a humorous approach by putting sculptures of baby appearances in suit of armor resembling super heroes who are bare handed or holding cutlery and baby’s bottle, fighting for their right of living.

Yet the patterns are way too wide for art to interpret. Rather tame works by Ryuzo Satake displays his wish for world peace from sincere faces of children. Takuro Sugiyama expresses abstract emotions through hand-drawn lines and color blocks instead of realistic stories and figures.

The other two who also draw the attention are Miki Kubota and Kazuyuki Takishita. She transforms 2D tattoo illustrations into 3D sculptures by photography and printing techniques, while Kazuyuki Takishita’s fantasy goblins and animals from Japanese fable are also a passage to peep at Japanese contemporary arts.

“Contiguous Zone” invites nine artists from three prominent galleries from Japan, covering wide themes and materials including sculpture, block print, glue color, and acrylic which challenge the horizon of Japanese contemporary arts.

Courtesy of AKI Gallery 

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