Frantic Gallery returns in Berlin for this year edition of young and ambitious PREVIEW BERLIN Art Fair and we are happy to be a part of Berlin Art Week 2013 with numerous events and international guests in the city. While the highlight of this year art week will be “Painting Forever!” - a line of exhibitions dedicated to subject of painting in Berlin - Frantic Gallery will present four of Japanese artists who work in the same field and illustrate a vast variety of approaches applied for creation of painterly expressions.

Cousteau Tazuke will be showing for the first time his screens, paintings made with acrylic resin and paint, which are installed on the metal base in the way both front and back side of the painting can be seen, thus transforming the topology of this traditionally two-dimensional art. With PREVIEW BERLIN Art Fair 2013 we are happy to announce our first collaboration with Atsushi Koyama, the artist who works on topic of ManMachine and uses oil on canvas to create “metaphysical” sketches of mechanical apparatus merging it with the physics of human body. After his solo show in Tokyo early this year Haruki Ogawa will be showing the “accumulation spreads”, in which his revolting images come out with more complicated structures while expanding to new media. Finally, Norio Kawamura will present his “nocturnal objects”, vast planes of black reliefs made of glue and lacquer, showing his research of dark color effects and interplay of smooth lacquer and excitation of the surface in the forms of butterflies.

Curated by: ENTOMORODIA curatorial net/work
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