May 11 @ tokyo big sight: GEISAI MUSEUM 2
this is part 2 of the report.
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Otsuka Satoru
大塚聡 Natural Hi! freedom communication
Yanagisawa Shin
柳沢 新
These sculptures were the size of skateboards. Sorry I couldn't find a site for him/her
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FUCK! this was the best thing there. Or ever.
Mr. Sugiura's photos were BLACK METAL. FUCKING BLACK METAL as hell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Photos of forests that were so dark and deep and cold, you couldn't see anything but you could FEEL the monsters and ghosts in the nooks and crannies all reaching out to get you. Instead of just DRAWING monsters, Sugiura makes photos that force YOU to imagine the monsters yourself, which is way more scary. He won a prize.
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Above, the box rotated, and had paintings on all sides. All this artist's works had simple, jokey themes, done in a very professional way. below, the new heiroglyphics:
Chen Wei-Tu
Anyway, this painting above is one of the few that actually do the "vague, floaty thing" (theme #5 in my introduction) well.
末松 享子
Suematsu Kyouko
Kouno Saori
河野 さおり
Saori-san's odd interpretation of the old "you are what you eat" adage.
Mr. Kajimoto had a huge number of paintings, all depicting the mythological adventures of his tribe of molten-rock men. There was obviously quite an elaborate back-story but my Japanese was not good enough to find out. I am a sucker for any art/music that comes complete with its own cosmology. Plus i love how he combines flat and 3d painting styles.
In america, artists that want to do that would be all freaked out about "Does it look enough like / too much like Robert Williams? Will i get in JUXTAPOZ?" but all this guy here cares about is, "What wacky quest will the molten lava dudes go on next?"
勇人古賀
Hayato Koga
Shane Kagotani and Katsuhito Fujiwara. together they are a company called GENDAIBIJUTSU NITOUHEY
They do all these amazing gag pieces. Most people would just draw a cartoon of the gag, but these 2 guys actually make the whole complete object!
below, THE CRAB OF LIBERTY:
manga-style Kabuki Masks.
Matsumoto Mayuko
松本 真由子
I have nothing to add. Let's see some more of these meat condos, shall we?
She is NOT a vegetarian. I asked.
"Mr. " is not only pals with the event producer, he is one of the only people who did a full-on installation. Here he reconstructs an Otaku room with the same painstaking, obsessive attention to detail that regular Otakus might spend on constructing their fantasy world! I don't know if that irony was intentional, but I sure hope so. Also noteworthy- he has secreted his own, original Anime-ish paintings around the room, hidden next to actual anime products, all Easter-egg-hunt style.
Dude is from Taiwan but looks like vintage RUN DMC. Here he poses with his series "FALLEN ANGELS." - he takes portrait photos of Taiwan hookers and then does these wildly distorted paintings of them.
Natsumi Ishiyama. No site.
You might remember ole' Ishiyama from my previous reports of her psychedelic Snot series, her Puke series, or maybe her Sexual Ice Cream Jet series. She is back, this time with a Drops of Fat And Oil Floating In Your Dish Of Ramen series.
Shimaoka Eiji
島岡 ｴｲｼﾞ
a 5 foot tall cabinet, with regular manga wheat-pasted on the outside. The door is open just a crack, and you can peek in and see the sexy manga wheat-pasted on the inside, plus DISCO BALL.
I like this for 2 reasons:
1) as a westerner, it confirms my bias that japanese people have more Tatemae/Honne than USA people.
2) because of the effort required to peek and snoop through the tiny crack, the viewer is hella implicated in the perversion. (i.e. if you go to all that trouble to see some manga tits, you are more dirty than the guy who built the art!)
Never got a chance to talk to homey, but he seems really good.
若杉 俊彦
Wakasugi Toshihiko
couldn't find a website for this dude. He had his portfolio with him, though, and showed us pictures of his previous art - life sized animal mutant sculptures. . . . he took animal skeletons and made mutants out of them, like a horse vomiting 30 snakes. Clearly a genius!!
check out all the business cards i got:
finally . .. . here are some good artists who I didn't take a picture of their stuff, but just visit their sites and you will see:
Kotone Ohira - wonderful puke photos
Kimura Shougo : past-present-future triptych
Koinuma Yoshiyuki - black and white horror paintings
Nakamura Koudai - paintings of goofy people and animals similar to Barry McGee.
Akira Ikezoe - amazing pictures of naked dudes in jungles getting bitten by monkeys
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