POP-ING, NANZUKA at AKI Gallery by Aki Gallery 也趣藝廊

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田名網敬一 Keiichi Tanaami / 08 Harumi YAMAGUCHI / 22

鬼海弘雄 Hiroh KIKAI / 34

空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA /42 本堀雄二 Yuji HONBORI / 58

佃弘樹 Hiroki TSUKUDA / 68

谷口真人 Makoto TANIGUCHI / 78 大平龍一 Ryuichi OHIRA /86

安部貢太朗 Kohtaro ABE / 94 3

Statement 延續 2020 也趣大展《POP IN 日本戰後藝術》，

本次帶來九位橫跨 30-80 年代，有著獨特風格

帶給台灣觀眾視覺感官上的刺激。本次將視野擴

基 (Hajime SORAYAMA b.1947)，與盡情釋放

今年再度用日本藝術洗滌疫情下的心靈，並渴望大、跳脫單一思維，從客觀視角將其脈絡整理，

在梳理的同時，我們將深入藝術家們的直觀思維，以不同視角探究其中奧妙。

截至明治時代為止，大多數被稱為「藝術」之物皆為實用品，與之發展同時也與流行文化融為一

體。從書法到屏風、拉門、漆器等工藝品，在當時的日本從物件中體現了「生活即藝術」。隨著時間推移，藝術一詞逐漸出現日本既有框架外的分歧演變。

而所謂與「高級」藝術相對立的「低俗」也開始在全球受到高度審視。畫面中充斥著性、龐克、科幻、街頭、動漫等次級元素，可看作為是對現今已開發國家之社會現狀的無聲反擊。戰後藝術

(Post-War Art) 來自於二戰後 (1939-1945) 逃避現代化與工業化的反抗；普普藝術 (Pop Art) 則

源自對大眾化及消費文化的體現。自 21 世紀網際網路的興起後，潮流藝術 (Urban Art) 便延續著從戰後開始一連串對不同文化的融合與解讀。而所謂的「潮流」也是透過思想與認同的流通所興

表現的日本藝術家：對女性胴體極致迷戀的空山

潛藏內心深處的情慾的 Harumi YAMAGUCHI

(b.1941)，而谷口真人 (Makoto TANIGUCHI

b. 1982) 筆下人物有著不輕易表露情緒的面容，皆能引發觀者如同見到真人般的無限遐想。身為戰後普普藝術先鋒的田名網敬一 (Keiichi

TANAAMI b.1936) 將自身夢境化作各式不可思

議的色彩與層次，究竟是夢境還是真實不得而知。佃弘樹 (Hiroki TSUKUDA b.1978) 則是將對未來世界的想像，以極簡線條搭配拼貼，營造超現

實主義狂熱者的迷幻都市。大平龍一 (Ryuichi OHIRA b.1982) 以焦黑電燒木和鍍金將象徵數位

時代的虛擬貨幣實體巨大化，重新演繹並打破傳

統的財富資產觀念。畫面轉到另一個視窗，看到的是透過時間與經歷，將社會脈搏訴諸於黑白底

片中的鬼海弘雄 (Hiroh KIKAI b.1945-2020)。安部貢太朗 (Kotaro ABE b.1988) 則是運用天然材料讓創作回歸最純粹自然的美；而本堀雄二

(Yuji HONBORI b.1958) 將一般運用貴金屬打造

的佛像 (Kami) 改為相同讀音的紙（Kami）材質製作，再現萬物皆有神的寓意。

起的新興文化，換句話說，「普普藝術」所想表

從性與奇幻、物質的崇拜，到資本主義的詮釋，

我們將故事持續展開，從令和回溯到昭和年間，

NANZUKA at AKI Gallery》從人的最基礎的慾

達的大眾文化是否也是潮流藝術的一部份？因此從潮流追溯普普再回歸到戰後，將日本藝術脈絡

更為完整呈現，體現文化跨越疆界及思想的狀態。受到二戰後的影響，日本經濟受到第一次重創，

而後回歸自然真實無我。這一趟《POP-ING, 望昇華到無欲，過程中的變幻莫測並充滿冒險快

感，十足體現當代社會現狀。歡迎來到屬於這個

世代的綺麗魔幻、充滿夢幻泡泡的普普藝術世界。

爾後迎來的是戰後重建的經濟盛況 ( 約 1970)，

卻在幾年內進入泡沫經濟時期 (1986-1991)；從殘破敗壞的戰爭乃至戰後的經濟起伏，都成為了

奠定日本當代藝術的根基。期間大量的美國文化

傳至日本，引起普普文化的盛行，日本從戰後的廢墟中尋找出那條屬於他們的道路。

Continuing our interest from the exhibition

“POP IN Japanese Postwar Pop Art” in 2020, we

aim to bring visual and sensory stimulation to

and consumer culture.

Taiwan audiences. This time, we will expand our

Since the rise of the Internet in the 21st century,

organise the thread of thoughts from an objective

and interpretation of different cultures since the

horizons, break out from the one-track mind, and

perspective. To dive into the intuitive thinking of artists and explore the mystery from different perspectives.

Until the Meiji era, many objects defined as "art" were practical daily essentials, which developed

and integrated with popular culture to the art we see today. From traditional calligraphy to

handicrafts such as folding screens, shōji, and

lacquerware, the concept that "life is art" was embodied in objects. As time goes by, the term "art" has gradually emerged and evolved outside of the existing framework in Japan.

The vulgarity of "low art," which is opposed to high art, has also begun to be highly scrutinised

around the world. The elements such as sex, punk, science fiction, graffiti, and animation became a silent counterattack to the social status quo of the developed countries. On the one hand,

Post-War Art originated from the resistance to modernisation and industrialisation after World

War II (1939-1945). On the other hand, Pop Art

comes from the embodiment of popularisation

Urban Art has developed a series of integration

post-war period. The so-called "trend" becomes

a new culture that arises through the circulation of ideas and identities. In other words, perhaps the popular culture of Pop Art is part of the

culture of the viral trend. As we unfold the story

from the Reiwa era to the Shōwa era, the "trend"

to the popular, and back to the postwar period, we aim to present a complete sequence of ideas

for Japanese art that reflect the state of culture through the transition of borders and thoughts.

On this occasion, AKI is proud to present nine Japanese artists with a unique style of expressions

across the 30s and 80s: Hajime SORAYAMA (b.1947), who is extremely obsessed with the combination of machine and female figure;

Harumi YAMAGUCHI ( b.1941) that unleashes

the lust hidden deep in our heart; and Makoto TANIGUCHI (b. 1982), who uses his imagination, memory fictional images and presences in

everyday life to project idols. Keiichi TANAAMI

(b.1936), the pioneer of Japanese Post-War Pop Art is well-known for transforming dreams and

nightmares into different colours and dimensions

The exhibition ranges from sex, science fiction,

Hiroki TSUKUDA (b.1978) who transform the

and back to the nature and truth of existence.

that are neither dream nor reality. There is also imagination towards the future to minimalist lines

and collages, creating the surrealist imagery of a psychedelic city; and Ryuichi OHIRA (b.1982) who

uses burnt wood and gold-plating to symbolize the digital age and the spreading of virtual

currency entity, which reinterprets and breaks

the traditional concept of wealth and assets. As we shift the image to another framework,

commodity fetishism to the capitalist social norm,

The adventure of "POP-ING NANZUKA at AKI Gallery" begins from the sublimation of human's

basic desire to apathy. An unpredictable process but full of adventurous pleasure that reveals the

current situation of contemporary society. We

welcome every audience to the world of pop art, the generation of the magical and bubbly fantasy.

we find Hiroh KIKAI (b.1945-2020) revealed the

constitution of soceity in black and white negative

film through time and experiences. On the other

hand, Kotaro ABE (b.1988) uses natural materials to return the creation to its natural form. Last but

not least, Yiju HONBORI (b.1958) plays with the

homonym of the word "Kami" to symbolise both the metal statue of Buddha and the material of paper, suggesting that every object has its god.

Harumi YAMAGUCHI Pink Nude”

Digital print on paper 42 x 59.4 cm | 2020 ed. 01 / 25

田名網敬一 Keiichi TANAAMI Seaside Eros

Acrylic on screened canvas 145.5 x 97 cm | 2008

（b. 1936）

出生於日本東京，畢業於武藏野美術大學。任教於京都藝術大學 ( 原：京都造形藝術大學 ) 教授，也作為跨領域藝術家活躍國際，現居日本。

稱得上日本戰後藝術第一人他，他跨足時尚、音樂、設計、藝術，曾是日版《花花公子》首任藝術

總監，也為英國搖滾團體設計封面及 adidas Originals 聯名合作等。作品有動畫、絲網印刷、拼貼

畫到油畫及立體作品。刻意選用強烈對比色，融合金魚、公雞、好萊塢女演員、迪士尼卡通人物等元素並作為戰爭記憶的比擬，後期也將代表庭園文化的松、鶴、龜、園林融入其中。「若將那夢境

的記憶拋棄是否是一種損失，將夢裡的世界深掘並將那無意識的世界具體化。」在戰爭時代下成長

Keiichi Tanaami

田名網敬一 Keiichi Tanaami

的田名網，將這些記憶混入其中，夢境中的不安躁動是記憶也是幻想。層層疊加後呈現華麗風格及十足爆發力，可看做是惶惑的包裝，也是體現日本時代的變化。

作品曾多次在國際中展出：Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland (2019), Shizuoka

Prefectural Museum of Art (Traveled) (2019), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US (2017), The Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway (2015), Ikeda Museum

of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka, Japan (1992) 等。亦典藏於：The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (MoMA), M+(Museum for Visual Culture), Hong Kong, Kawasaki City

Museum, Japan, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan, Stratford City Museum, Canada, Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Germany 等。

田名網敬一 Keiichi TANAAMI | The Catalogue of Eccentricity (Series - Part 36) | Colored pencil and paper collage on paper | 45.5 x 74 cm | 2017

Born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from Musashino Art University academy. Keiichi TANAAMI is regarded as the leading artist in post-war art in Japan. He has been

involved in the field of fashion, music, design, and art. He was the first art director of

“Playboy" in the Japanese version. He also contributed to the cover of a British rock band and the collaboration with the Adidas Original. His works contain animation, screen

printing, collage to oil painting, and three-dimensional works. He’s combining elements such as goldfish and rooster, Hollywood actresses, Disney cartoon characters, and more as the comparison of his memories of wars. He also depicted the compositions of culture such as pine trees, cranes, tortoises, gardens.

"If projecting the memory of the dream is an experience of loss, dig deep into the world of the dream and make the unconscious world to be reified." Keiichi TANAAMI grew up during the war. He’s transforming these memories and making the restless dreams an illusion. The

gorgeousness and energy layering in the works can be seen as the packaging of fear and confusion which are exposing the changes of times in Japan.

田名網敬一 Keiichi TANAAMI | Scene with a Crying Woman | Acrylic on screened canvas | 145.5 x 97 cm | 2008

田名網敬一 Keiichi TANAAMI | Eye Beam | "Woodblock print on

washi | 57.5 x 40.5 cm (without frame) | 2020 | ed. 60 / 100 + AP. / 15"

His works had been exhibited in Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Shizuoka, Japan (1992),

The Norwegian International Film Festival, Haugesund, Norway (2015), Hammer Museum,

Los Angeles, US (2017), Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland (2019), Shizuoka

Prefectural Museum of Art (Traveled) (2019). The public collections of the works included in The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (MoMA), M+(Museum for Visual Culture), HongKong, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan, Stratford City Museum, Canada, Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Germany.

He taught at Kyoto University of the Arts (formerly: taught at Kyoto University of the Arts) professor, also as a cross-field Kyoto artist creative international, now living in Japan.

Exhibitions

Memorial Reconstruction ｜ Keiichi TANAAMI ｜

NANZUKA ｜ July 11 August 8, 2020

Media Exposure Keiichi Tanaami Brings Psychedelic Pop Art to Tokyo's NANZUKA Gallery

The leading Postwar Japanese artist mounts unseen works for “Memorial Reconstruction.” Hype Art

Jul 13, 2020

編輯 : Keith Estiler Keiichi Tanaami is lauded as one of the leading pop artists of postwar Japan and continues

to develop new work as an interdisciplinary

artist since the 1960s. Helming a new show at Tokyo’s NANZUKA gallery called “Memorial Reconstruction,” the sprawling presentation

features psychedelic works on canvas and uncanny sculptural pieces that channel his

memories of experiencing World War II as a child.

Tanaami takes the darkest experiences of his life and turns them into whimsical expressions, portraying heavily-layered and vivid compositions filled with otherworldly creatures and subjects

borrowed from Western cartoons and Japanese manga.

In one of Tanaami’s new paintings, he depicts the

famous American comic strip Nancy created by

Ernie Bushmiller in 1938 with the 1966 Japanese superhero Ultraman alongside scenes reminiscent

of wartime bombings in Japan. Moreover, across

a series of large-scale collage he injects figures taken from mid-20th century American magazines and merges them with his cast of bizarre creatures.

“Tanaami’s recent works appear like uncanny yet

pop renditions of Yokai-ga (traditional paintings of supernatural monsters, spirits, and demons

in Japanese folklore), however what is depicted

are various memories that were reconstructed

Reconstruction” above and then visit NANZUKA’s website to learn more. The show is currently on view until August 8.

In other news, the Hagia Sophia will become a mosque after 85 years as a museum.

based on Tanaami’s actual experiences, at times

NANZUKA ,

statement.

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan

using dreams as a medium,” said NANZUKA in a

2-17-3 Shibuya

https://hypebeast.com/2020/7/keiichi-tanaami-memorial-reconstruction-nanzuka-exhibition-info

UNIQLO UT 攜手日本藝術單位 NANZUKA 打造全新藝術家聯乘系列空山基、田名網敬一和 YOSHIROTTEN 等人重磅登場！

HYPEBEAST

Feb 10, 2020

編輯 : Michael Chu

UNIQLO 旗下負責 T-Shirt 的創意產品線 UNIQLO UT 與許

多別注名人和藝術家推出了各式各樣的合作單品，像是早先與 Futura、AMBUSH 以及《Dragon Ball Z》的聯乘系列等。今回 UNIQLO UT 再度釋出一件重磅情報，那就是 UNIQLO

UT 即將與日本的知名藝術單位 NANZUKA 合作，找來一系列知名藝術家像是田名網敬一、Haroshi、山口はるみ、横山裕一、佃弘樹、YOSHIROTTEN、Javier Calleja 與空山基等

人推出全新的聯乘系列。系列名為「NEO-MIYAGE（ネオ土

産）」，旨在希望能夠將日本代表性的文化與藝術家們結合，

並將之賦予在 T-Shirt 上，像是日本傳統藝妓、忠犬八公、與空山基的 Sexy Robot 等等。

NEO-MIYAGE 第一彈商品預計將在 2 月 17 日正式販售，而 Todd James、Julia Chiang、Erik Parker、Katherine

Bernhardt、Oliver Payne 以及空山基的作品則將在 4 月上

旬才會正式販售，全系列售價皆為 $1,500 日圓，有興趣的屆時還請多加留意 UNIQLO 的實體店鋪與官方網站。

https://hypebeast.com/zh/2020/2/ut-nanzuka-neo-miyage-collection-release-info

7 Contemporary Japanese Artists Who Emerged from Tokyo’s Underground Art Scene Artsy

SEP 20, 2019

編輯 : Alina Cohen In the United States, Takashi Murakami’s cartoon flowers and Yayoi Kusama’s mirrored boxes dominate

our conception of Japanese contemporary art. With their vibrant installations and paintings, these

superstars tear at the boundary between art and design, bringing mid-century Pop principles into

the 21st century. Yet two exhibitions at New York’s Jeffrey Deitch—a group show titled “Tokyo Pop Underground,” and a solo show of work by Keiichi Tanaami—unite the work of 14 other Japanese artists. Active from 1960s to today, these artists surface the vibrancy of Tokyo’s underground scene.

“After [the Japanese] people lost themselves, just surviving and rebuilding the country after the war, the ’60s were a time to leave the past and head for the future,” explained Shinji Nanzuka, the Tokyo-based

gallerist who curated the Jeffrey Deitch show. “The youth generation started a lot of radical growth.” Artists reckoned with a productive anxiety towards the United States—which bombed their country— and appreciation for the country’s cultural output. They incorporated violent and sexually explicit imagery into their new work while adopting elements of street art, which was emerging in the West.

Influenced by manga, fashion, animation, and underground music, the following artists have forged a new path forward for Japanese art.

Keiichi Tanaami, Momenti Mori, 2019. Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of Jeffrey Deitch. A recent series of digital canvas prints, “Adventure of the Eyes” (2019), incorporates collaged

photographs of women, skeletons, and machines, making for eerie, highly textured mash-ups with vicious undercurrents. “Tanaami represents how Japanese culture was rebuilt, with the U.S.’s influence, after the war,” said Nanzuka. “His works show complex feeling against the country.”

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-7-contemporary-japanese-artists-emerged-tokyos-underground-art-scene

Warsaw International Poster Biennale special prize

Tokyo ADC Award

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], US Walker Art Center, US The Art Institute of Chicago, US National Portrait Gallery, US M+[Museum for Visual Culture], Hong Kong Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Switzerland Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart Berlin, Germany Kawasaki City Museum, Japan Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art, Japan The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan The Chateau d'Annecy, France Jean Pigozzi Collection Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan Singapore Art Museum, Singapore Takamatsu Art Museum, Japan The World Children's Art Museum in Okazaki, Japan Chiba City Museum of Art, Japan Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan Musashino Art University Library, Japan Junior College of Sapporo Otani University Library, Japan Tokyo Zokei University, Japan Kyushu Institute of Design, Japan Fukuoka City Public Library, Japan

Keiichi Tanaami

Awards

Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, US University of Genoa, Italy Mid-west Film Center, US Colorado State University, US Stratford City Museum, Canada Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Japan Crossman Gallery - Greenhill Center of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, US Bundeswehr Military History Museum, Germany

1936

Born in Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan

1975

Art Director of Monthly PLAYBOY (Japanese Edition)

1991

Professor of Kyoto University of Art and Design, where he is currently a chairperson of a Faculty of Information Design

Education 1958

Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibitions 2020

Memorial Reconstruction, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Paradise of Keiichi Tanaami Passage in the Air, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

Keiichi Tanaami Great Journey, Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Keiichi Tanaami - In Cooperation with Fumetto Comic Festival

Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland

Tanaami x adidas Originals, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2018

Keiichi Tanaami Dialogue, Kyoto ddd gallery, Kyoto, Japan

Keiichi Tanaami, Guangzhou K11, Guangzhou, China

Keiichi Tanaami, Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Japan

Perfect Cherry Blossom, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

Dream of Human Metamorphosis, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany

2017

Deformed Universe, BOOKMARC, Tokyo, Japan

LAND OF MIRRORS, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Amulet of the Tapir, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

Hammer Projects: Oliver Payne and Keiichi Tanaami, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US

A Perfect Peach-Pink Day, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany

2016

DREAM FRAGMENT, Gallery 360 ゜ , Tokyo, Japan

The Laughing Spider, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland

BRIDGE, COURTYARD HIROO, Tokyo, Japan

VISIBLE DARKNESS, INVISIBLE DARKNESS, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, US

2015

Lost and Wandering Bridge, Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Japan

Passage in the Air (1975-1993), NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

Collages, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, US

Group Exhibitions

2021

POP-ING- NANZUKA at AKI Gallery, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

Underground of Diversity, Art Basel Miami Beach Online 2020

JP POP UNDERGROUND, Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan

GLOBAL POP UNDERGROUND, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

POP IN - Postwar Japanese Art, AKI GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan

More Than Cinema, Pioneer Works, New York, US

2019

Wanderlust, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND, Jeffrey Deitch, LA, US

Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art (Traveled), Shizuoka, Japan

Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong

2018

Mickey: The True Original Exhibition, New York, US

1968: Art in the Turbulent Age, Chiba City Museum of Art (Traveled), Chiba, Japan

EXPERIENCE POMMERY #4 // UNDERGROUND SPIRIT, DOMAINE POMMERY, Reims, France

CONTEMPORARY CHIC -In Fashion Illustration-, Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics, Le Lieu Unique (Traveled), Nantes, France

Hello World. Revising a Collection Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany

Art Basel Hong Kong 2018 Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center (HKCEC), Hong Kong

Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics, Villa Reale di Monza (Traveled), Monza, Italy

Taking it Easy—The Secret Garden of Animation’s Wild Imagination, MOCA-Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China

The House of Fame - Convened by Linder, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong

2017

Special exhibition Ultra Seven 70 CREATORS' SEVEN, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

Mangasia: Wonderlands of Asian Comics, Palazzo Delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy

THE ART SHOW – Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan

CONTEMPORARY ART, NOW! FROM YAYOI KUSAMA TO HIRAKI SAWA, Onomichi City Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Encounters Festival, Bristol, UK

GLOBAL NEW ART – The Essence of Taguchi Art Collection, Woodone Museum, Hiroshima, Japan

Keiichi Tanaami

The Encyclopedia of Masamichi Katayama - Life is hard... Let's go shopping., operacity art gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Hot Mess, Karma International, Los Angeles, US

Ambiguously Yours: Gender in Hong Kong Popular Culture, M+ Pavilion, Hong Kong

International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany Sundance Film Festival, Park City, US

2016

London International Animation Festival, London, UK St.Louis International Film Festival, St.Louis, US Trans Kyoto: Keiichi Tanaami x Keiji Ito - The Collaged Memories, ISETAN The Japan Store Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Geneva International Animation Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland THE SECRET LIFE OF THE PENCIL, Paul Smith SPACE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada L'Étrange Festival, Paris, France Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary International Pop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US MYSTIFIERS, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia ALLOY & PEACE, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands Eyes Go Pop: Psychedelic Japan, Tate Modern, London, UK 2015

Akatsuka Fujio no gendai bichutsu ten, BANK GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York, US The World Goes Pop, Tate Modern, London, UK Various Artists - Before the GIF, High Line Channel 14, New York, US Taro Okamoto and Masayoshi Nakamura - Tokyo, Toyohashi City Museum Art & history, Aichi; Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan Passion : Fan Behaviour and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin ; Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany OUTDOOR, WARM São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil International Pop, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis ; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, US Art After Dark - Keiichi Tanaami x Chen Tianzhou, KALEIDOSCOPE Pop-up gallery, Singapore Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual - Selected by Cleopatra's, White Columns, New York, US

Bibliography 2017

Trompe-l'oeil Hatena-chan and the Forest of Wonder, sobokusha

Amulet of the Tapir, HIOSHINA PSYCHEDELIC DEATH POP, HIOSHINA Perfect Cherry Blossom, Edition Patrick Frey TOKYO TATEBANKO, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS Dream on Dreamer, Tokyo Kirara-sha PARADISE OF EYES, LE DERNIER CRI 2016

Dream Fragment, ele-king books

2014

DEATH BRIDGE, LE DERNIER CRI

Fragrance of Kogiku, ele-king books Birth and Death Bridge, United Dead Artists 2013

KILLER JOE'S, Walther König / Contrarede No More War, Edition Patrick Frey glamour, ERECT Lab.

20001998

Film

Series: Information Design, Edit: Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kadokawa Shoten Publishing

2016

The Laughing spider digital animation; 7min24sec

2013

ADVENTURES IN BEAUTY WONDERLAND digital animation; 4min56sec

2012

Red Colored Bridge digital animation; 5min30sec

2011

DREAMS DV, color; 4min

2010

Hanya Shingyo DV, color; 6min

Art Fair 2017

Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, NANZUKA, Hong Kong

2016

Paramount Ranch, Karma International, Los Angeles, US Art Basel Hong Kong 2016, NANZUKA, Hong Kong Art Basel, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Basel, Switzerland viennacontemporary, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Vienna, Austria Art Basel Miami Beach, NANZUKA, Miami, US

2015

ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2015, NANZUKA, Singapore Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, NANZUKA, Hong Kong Art Basel, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Basel, Switzerland Frieze Masters 2015, NANZUKA, London, UK

2014

ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2014, NANZUKA, Singapore ART FAIR TOKYO 2014, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan The Armory Show 2014, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, New York, US ART COLOGNE - NADA COLLABORATIONS 2014, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Cologne Frieze NY, Karma International, New York, US Art Basel Hong Kong 2014, NANZUKA, Hong Kong

Keiichi Tanaami

Editorial Design/Art Direction

LISTE, Karma International, Basel, Switzerland 2013

Art Basel Hong Kong, NANZUKA, Hong Kong Art Basel, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Basel, Switzerland Art Basel Miami, Karma International, Miami, US

2012

NADA Miami Beach, NANZUKA, Miami Beach, US NADA NY, NANZUKA, New York, US ART HK, NANZUKA, Hong Kong Art Stage Singapore, NANZUKA, Sinagapore

Harumi YAMAGUCHI Red Nude”

Digital print on paper 59.4 x 42 cm | 2020 ed. 01 / 25"

（b. 1941）

出生於日本島根縣，畢業於東京藝術大學油畫專業，現居日本東京。曾任職於日本設計之父田中一光 (b.1930-2002) 所擔任設計總監的西武百貨宣傳設計部，遂開

起其繪畫事業。爾後成為自由創作者，為當時剛開業的知名百貨 PARCO 繪製形象插畫廣告。 YAMAGUCHI 所繪製的女性與男性視角下的情色主義不同，而是為女性自身的性與存在感而歌

頌。畫中偶爾出現棒球、拳擊等形象樣貌，可以理解為對父系主義的反抗詮釋。70 年代 Alberto

Vargas (b. 1896-1982) 筆下的女性風靡全球，當時在日本僅有 YAMAGUCHI 同樣使用噴槍繪製女性形象，並以超現實主義將情慾及身體價值呈現於觀眾眼前，憑藉繪畫特質一躍成為日本 70 年代後最受人推崇的頂級插畫師。他也持續投身於創作中，並曾與 Stüssy 聯名合作。

曾獲得國際廣告與設計界知名獎項東京 ADC 賞。作品曾多次在國際中展出：Contemporary

Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan (2018), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz,

Fra n ce (2017), B ri d get Do na hue, New Y o rk, US (2017), To kyo Met ro po l itan Museum

of Photography Library, Tokyo, Japan (2001), PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan (2016), Shimane Art Museum , Shimane, Japan (2000) 等。亦典藏於：Museum of Modern Art,

New York, NY, US, WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, US, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan, CCGA Graphic Art Center, Fukushima, Japan。

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

Born in Shimane, Japan. Harumi YAMAGUCHI

graduated with a BFA from Tokyo University of the

Arts, Tokyo, Japan. She lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

She has been in her career as a painter after she worked in the publicity and design department where one of the representative Japanese graphic

designers, Ikko TANAKA (b.1930-2002) was the

design director for the Seibu Department Store at the time. Later on, she became a freelancer and

drew the illustrated advertising for the notable

d ep a rt men t st o r e P A R C O. T he w o m e n dra wn by YAMAGUCHI are different from the perspective of

men. Instead, she praises the sex and sense of the existence of women. The occasional appearance

of baseball and boxing in the painting can be

understood as a rebellious interpretation of

patriarchalism. Alberto Vargas's (b. 1896-1982)’s artworks with female figures were trending globally

in the 1970s. There is only YAMAGUCHI presented the erotic and physical value of female figures

in surrealism with her airbrush at that time. She

became the most respected top illustrator after the 1970s in Japan. She continues to devote herself to the creation and collaborated with Stüssy in 2019.

She won the Tokyo ADC Award, a well-known award in the international advertising and design

industry. Her works had been exhibited in the

Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan (2000), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library,

Tokyo, Japan (2001), PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo,

Japan (2016), Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (2017), Bridget Donahue, New York, US (2017), Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto,

Japan (2018). The public collections of her works included in the Museum of Modern Art, New York,

NY, US, WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, US, Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan, CCGA Graphic Art Center, Fukushima, Japan.

Harumi YAMAGUCHI © Harumi YAMAGUCHI

Exhibitions

HARUMI GALS ｜ Harumi

YAMAGUCHI ｜ NANZUKA ｜

October 27 - November 22, 2020

Media Exposure HARUMI YAMAGUCHI ILLUSTRATES NODALETO'S SS21 SHOE COLLECTION

Featuring the brand’s signature Bulla heel alongside entirely new styles. HYPEART

Oct 1, 2020

編輯 : Alexandra Pauly

© Harumi YAMAGUCHI Footwear brand Nodaleto, known for its chunky heels, tapped Japanese artist Harumi Yamaguchi to illustrate its Spring/Summer 2021 collection. The result is a colorful campaign featuring the artist’s airbrushed “Harumi Gals” sporting the latest Nodaleto styles.

The brand’s signature Bulla heel arrives on strappy sandals, boots and sling-backs. Entirely new styles include feathered sandals, denim platforms and Mary Janes featuring a lower version of the Bulla heel.

The Harumi boot, a knee-high silhouette made of black satin intricately embroidered with flowers, pays homage to this season’s collaboration.

Take a look at Nodaleto’s Harumi Yamaguchi collaboration above and the full Spring/Summer 2021 collection below.

https://hypebae.com/2020/10/harumi-yamaguchi-nodaleto-spring-summer-2021-collection-campaign-bulla-heels-sandals-

boots-release

UNIQLO Celebrates 13 Contemporary Japanese Artists With UT NEO-MIYAGE Collection Featuring works by Keiichi Tanaami, Hajime Sorayama and more. HYPEBEAST

Feb 10, 2020

編輯 : Gabrielle Leung

This month, UNIQLO will launch one of two NEO-MIYAGE UT collections celebrating 13 contemporary Japanese artists whose works are exhibited at NANZUKA gallery in Tokyo. From a robot made out of

sushi to a metallic rendering of Japanese Akita dog Hachikō, the graphic T-shirts showcase unique

artistic perspectives on Japanese motifs. Artists spotlighted in the collection include acclaimed Japanese artists Keiichi Tanaami, Hajime Sorayama and Yoshirotten.

Comprised of 14 T-shirts in total, the UNIQLO UT collection offers a range of authentic pop culture and

art graphics from around the world. Highlights of the first range include Harumi Yamaguchi‘s ultra-

realistic airbrush illustration of an apprentice geisha, Hiroki Tsukuda’s design of Tokyo Tower created with a digital collage technique and Haroshi’s print of his signature wood figures.

For the second NEO-MIYAGE collection, UNIQLO will feature works by Eric Parker, Julia Chiang, Todd

James and more. Releasing for $14.90 USD each, T-shirts from the first UT collection will drop February 17 on UNIQLO’s website and at select in-store locations.

In case you missed it, UNIQLO linked up with legendary street artist Futura for a range of co-branded apparel items.

https://hypebeast.com/2020/2/uniqlo-ut-neo-miyage-japanese-art-collection-drop

Harumi Yamaguchi & YOSHIROTTEN Present Powerful Female Illustrations at NANZUKA 2G Created in Yamaguchi’s signature airbrushed style. HYPEBAE

Jan 16, 2020

編輯 : Gabrielle Leung

Last year, celebrated Japanese artists Harumi Yamaguchi and YOSHIROTTEN launched a

collaborative show featuring illustrations

of airbrushed female figures. This time,

NANZUKA will present both artists’ work at its new “2G” studio space. “HARUMI’S WINTER” focuses on winter-themed airbrush

illustrations Yamaguchi painted for PARCO’s

advertisements, with the entire art direction overseen by YOSHIROTTEN.

From the early 1970s to the mid-1980s, Yamaguchi began illustrating advertisements for PARCO, featuring women the artist called “Harumi Gals.” Her portrayals of women fell in line with PARCO’s

strategy to depict female figures “living strongly within the times.” YOSHIROTTEN was chosen as the youngest director of Yamaguchi’s Harumi Gals, which culminated in the 2018 exhibition “HARUMI’S SUMMER.” “HARUMI’S WINTER” is essentially a sequel to this exhibition.

Through the interpretation of YOSHIROTTEN, Yamaguchi’s powerful, vibrant and elegantly refined illustrations continue to speak volumes today. Her portrayals of women are both sensual and intimate, like the depiction of a woman drinking a Coca-Cola bottle in lingerie, and empowering, captured in the painting of two women rollerblading.

Take a closer look at select works from “HARUMI’S WINTER” in the gallery above. The exhibition will be on show from January 25 to March 1.

Elsewhere in art, Paris Musées has released hi-res images of 321,178 historic works of art online. “2G” Studio

Shibuya PARCO

15-1 Udagawacho, Shibuya City, 2/F Tokyo 150-8377, Japan

https://hypebeast.com/2020/1/harumi-yamaguchi-yoshirotten-nanzuka-2g-studio-harumis-winter-exhibition-info

Warsaw International Poster Biennale special prize

Tokyo ADC Award

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US

WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, US

Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan

CCGA Graphic Art Center, Fukushima, Japan

Born in Shimane, Japan

Education

BFA, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibitions 2018

HARUMI YAMAGUCHI × YOSHIROTTEN Harumi's Summer, ginza graphic gallery(ggg), Tokyo, Japan

2017

CONDO NY, Bridget Donahue, New York, US

Harumi Yamaguchi Selected Works 1974 – 1985, Project Native Informant, London, UK

2016

Hyper! HARUMI GALS!!, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

WOMEN, Gallery Retara, Sapporo, Japan

HARUMI GALS, POST, Tokyo, Japan

2015

HARUMI GALS, AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

HARUMI GALS, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2013

Harumi Yamaguchi - femmes japonaises, Gallery House MAYA, Tokyo, Japan

Yamaguchi Harumi meets Seibu shibuya, Seibu shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2009

Ecchi, GALERIE Malle, Tokyo, Japan

2002

Fall in Love with Thoroughbreds, Minami-Aoyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2001

Time Tunnel Series VOL.13 – Heroine at the Time, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo / Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan

2000

A Message to the 21 Century – Dignify Woman – Harumi Yamaguchi Oroginal Poster, PARCO Gallery, Tokyo / (Traveled to) Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan

Group Exhibitions 2021

POP-ING- NANZUKA at AKI Gallery, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

Underground of Diversity, Art Basel Miami Beach Online 2020

JP POP UNDERGROUND, Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan

HARUMI'S WINTER, SHIBUYA PARCO NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

Awards

2019

Wanderlust, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND, Jeffrey Deitch, NY, US

They Gaze, James Fuentes, New York, US

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong

Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2018

Bubble wrap, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan

CONTEMPORARY CHIC -In Fasion Illustration-, Hankyu Umeda Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Takahashi Collection | Face and Abstraction, Kiyoharushirakaba Museum, Museum of the Light,

Ryuzaburo Umehara Atelier, Yamanashi, Japan

The House of Fame - Convened by Linder Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK

2017

Japanorama. A new vision on art since 1970, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

TAITTINGER ART EXHIBITION, MDP GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

EAST Tokyo - Discovery in old town -, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan

Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s, TOKYO STASION GALLERY,

Tokyo, Japan

I ♥ LOVE SAKE in TOKYO, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

2016

TOKYO ILLUSTRATORS SOCIETY PRESENTS 158 Sosekis Time Travel through a Century, Creation

Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan

Desire, Moore Building, Miami, USA

2015

Scarves and Blankets by 177 Creative Artists and a Knitwear Manufacturer in Date City, Fukushima,

Creation Gallery G8 / Guardian Garden, Tokyo, Japan

PEACE CARD 2015 TOKYO, gallery MAYA 2, Tokyo, Japan

TOKYO ILLUSTRATORS SOCIETY PRESENTS Decoleles ♪ 148 Ukuleles Designed by Illustrators,

Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan

2014

Here is ZINE tokyo BANGKOK 8, TOKYO CULTuART by BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan

TIS Exhibition, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan

2013

ShibuyaPARCO40TH anniversary exhibition "SHIBUPAR", PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

Kabuki illustration, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo, Japan

TOKYO ILLUSTRATORS SOCIETY PRESENTS Konjaku Monogatarishuu, MATSUYA GINZA, Tokyo,

Japan

2012

The Tokyo Illustrators Society Presents Favorite Sayings in Pictures, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo,

Japan

わたしの句読点２〈食いろいろ〉, TOBACCO & SALT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

2011

Woman on the TOWN, Advertising Museum Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

The Tokyo Illustrators Society Presents Smiles by 178 Illustrators, Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo,

Japan

2004

The Golden Age of Illustration, CCGA Graphic Art Center, Fukushima, Japan

2001

Parco poster collection 1969-1986, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Library, Tokyo,

Japan

1992

Tadahito Nadamoto, Akira Uno, Makoto Wada, Harumi Yamaguchi Exhibition, ggg Gallery, Tokyo /

ddd Gallery, Osaka, Japan

Bibliography 2016

HARUMI GALS, Hioshina, Tokyo, Japan

2001

WOMAN, Rokuyõ-sha, Tokyo, Japan

1980

Dream of Movies, Woman of Dream (Collaborated with Koichi Yamada), Hanashi-no-Tokushu-sha,

Tokyo, Japan

1978

HARUMI GALS, PARCO, Tokyo, Japan

Harumi YAMAGUCHI

鬼海弘雄 Hiroh KIKAI

鳶 A Scaffolder in a Black Coat and a Red Scarf

Silver-halide prints on paper

50.5 x 40.6 cm | 1994 / printed 1995

AP. 1 / 1 (Unique print from artist proof)

Hiroh KIKAI

鬼海弘雄 Hiroh KIKAI

（b. 1945 － 2020）

出生於日本山形縣，畢業於法政大學哲學專業。成為攝影家前曾經是公務員、司機、造船廠員工、遠洋漁船夫，經歷不同職業洗鍊後變開啟其攝影

生涯。1973 年在東京淺草拍攝人物寫真，爾後 45 年間從未停止對於拍攝人物的熱衷。對鬼海來說，擅長美國社會邊緣人物攝影的 Diane ARBUS (b. 1923-1971) 是對其攝影生涯影響深遠的人之一。

鬼海透過時間與其經歷的淬煉，將無名人士的生活形象訴諸於畫面，在其中能看見穿越表象的社會脈搏。而這些黑白照片，似乎正透過影像傳遞著各自不同的故事也或許是鬼海自己的故事。他稱拍攝對象為「王」，並捕捉他們的尊嚴、好奇心、情感，展現對時間與人文的描繪。

憑藉攝影集 PERSONA (2003) 獲日本知名攝影獎項土門拳賞及攝影協會賞。並曾獲日本寫真協會新人賞、伊奈信男賞多項日本攝影界大獎。作品曾多次在國際中展出：Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Paris, France (2015), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Ph o t o g ra p h y , T o k y o , J a p a n ( 2 0 1 1) , In t e rn a t i o n a l Ce n t e r o f P h o t o gra p h y N e w Y o rk,

US (2008) 等。亦典藏於：Philadelphia Museum of Art, US, Museum of the International

Center of Photography, New York, US, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, Domon Ken Photography Museum, Sakata, Japan, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan 等。

Born in Yamagata, Hiroh KIKAI received his BFA in philosophy at Hosei University.

Before becoming a photographer, he worked

as a local government employee, driver, shipyard worker, and offshore fisherman. His abundant and diverse working experiences play

a key role in his photography. KIKAI started portrait photography in Asakusa, Tokyo in 1973

and had carried on this passion for 45 years.

He cited Diane ARBUS (b. 1923-1971) as the most influential photographer for his career.

Through time and his life experiences, he was

able to capture the banalest yet the genuine side of those anonymous. He called those

anonymous“lords”(-sama) to show his respect to the subjects in the images and seized their

dignity, curiosity, and sentiment. Those black and white portraits not only tell the stories of their own but also those of KIKAI. On top of that,

his images convey not only the individuals but also a general spirit of Japanese society.

Apart from his abundant award winnings such

as th e Newco mer's A wa rd , Ina No b u o Award, his photography book PERSONA (2003) had won the Domon Ken Award and the Annual

Award of the PSJ. His work has been exhibited in International Center of Photography New York, US (2008), Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, Japan (2011), Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale in

Paris, France (2015), as well as being collected by Philadelphia Museum of Art in the US, Museum

of the International Center of Photography in New York, US, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin,

Germany, Domon Ken Photography Museum in Sakata, Japan, Museum of Modern Art in Toyama, Japan.

Media Exposure Hong Kong Spotlight: Six Artists to Watch OCULA

24 November 2020 Hong Kong

編輯 : Stephanie Bailey

Hiroh Kikai, A young man wearing earrings in G clef shape (1992). Photograph

on paper. 50.5 x 40.6 cm. AP 1/1 unique print from artist proof. © Hiroh Kikao. Courtesy NANZUKA.

Hiroh Kikai Two main strands compose Yamagata-born, philosophy graduate Hiroh Kikai's arresting study of Tokyo,

created with the same Hasselblad SLR camera: portraits of people he would stop around the Senso-ji temple in the Asakusa district, and captures of the city's architectures sans people in Tokyo Labyrinth.

Showing at Hong Kong Spotlight with NANZUKA, Kikai's portraits, initiated in 1973, are uniform in their

staging, with figures positioned against a plain wall, captured mostly from mid-body up. Apparently, he would photograph a maximum of three people per day, giving time to learn more about the subjects who caught his eye.

Titles gesture at what Kikai learned. One image of man styled like a teddy boy is called A man who said

he grew his sideburns, so people wouldn't mess with me, another showing a man with a cat perched on his back is titled A man who dresses his cat in lace. In publications of these photos, Kikai often referred to his subjects as kings.

There is an intimacy in Kikai's pictures. A familiarity that gallerist Shinji Nanzuka, who staged Kikai's final exhibition early in 2020 before his passing in October this year, touched on when pointing out the

'sincerity, affection, and curiosity' in the photographer's remarkable work. 'What I photograph is the time that person has come from,' Kikai once said, 'and the time to which they will go from now'.

https://ocula.com/magazine/insights/hong-kong-spotlight-six-artists-to-watch/

2004

Domon Ken Award

Annual Award of the PSJ

1993

Society of Photography Award

1988

Newcomer's Award

Ina Nobuo Award

Permanent Collections

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, US

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, US

Museum of the International Center of Photography, New York, US

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, US

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, US

Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, US

Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Domon Ken Photography Museum, Sakata, Yamagata, Japan

Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography: 17 photographs from the series Ōtachi no shōzō (later known as Persona or Asakusa Portraits), 1985–86., Tokyo, Japan

1945

Hiroh KIKAI

Awards

Born in Yamagaya, Japan

Solo Exhibitions 2020

Ya- Chimata, Hong Kong Spotlight, Hong Kong

Ya-Chimata, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2019

Persona: The Final Chapter, Irie Taikichi Memorial Museum of Photography, Nara, Japan

Persona, Sagae City Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan

2018

Persona, Photo Gallery Blue Hole, Akita, Japan

2017

Persona: Portrait Photography of Hiroh Kikai, See + Art Space, Beijing, China

India 1979–2016, Fuji Film Photo Salon, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Tokyo: voyage à Asakusa, Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale, Paris, France

2014

India 1982–2011, The Museum of Art, Ehime, Japan

Retratos de Asakusa", Tabacalera Promoción del Arte, Madrid, Spain

India 1982–2011, Canon Gallery S, Tokyo, Jap

2013

Asakusa Portraits (1973–2008) et India (1982–2008), In between Gallery, Paris, France

Persona - 14th Documentary Photo Festival Miyazaki, Miyaza Prefectural Art Museum, Miyazaki, Japan

Tokyo Labyrinth, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012

Persona, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan

2011

Anatoria, M2, Tokyo, Japan

Tokyo portraits, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

2010

Asakusai portrék, Liget Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2009

Persona, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, US

2007

Tokyo dreams, Ginza Nikon Salon, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions 2021

POP-ING- NANZUKA at AKI Gallery, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

JP POP UNDERGROUND, Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan

2019

Tokyo Pop Underground, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US

2016

Faces from Places", L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, US

With Different Eyes: The Portrait in Contemporary Photography, Die Photografische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany

2008

Sander's Children, Danziger Projects, New York, US

Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, International Center of Photography, New York, US

2007

Tokyo Labyrinth / Andes Qero, Shomeido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2006

Berlin–Tokyo, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

1997

What can photographs say?, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1995

Tokyo/City of Photos, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1990

New Documents 1990, Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan

1988

The Hitachi Collection of Contemporary Japanese Photography, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, US

Bibliography

2019

Shanti: Persona in India, Chikumashobo, Tokyo

Persona: The Final Chapter, 2005–2018, Chikumashobo, Tokyo

Portraying words: Hiroh Kikai interview collection, Heibonsha, Tokyo

2017

India 1979–2016, Crevis, Tokyo

2016

Kutsuzoku no herikata( 靴底の減りかた ), Chikumashobo, Tokyo

Tokyo View, Kazetabi-sha, Kyoto

2015

Dare o mo sukoshi suki ni naru hi: Memekuri bōbiroku, Bungei shunjū, Tokyo

2014

Seken no hito ( 世間のひと ), Chikuma Bunko, Tokyo

2012

Me to kaze no kioku: Shashin o meguru esē, Iwanami, Tokyo

2011

Tōkyō pōtoreito ( 東京ポートレイト ) / Tokyo Portraits, Crevis, Tokyo

Anatoria ( アナトリア ) / Anatolia, Crevis, Tokyo

2008

Asakusa Portraits, International Center of Photography, New York

2007

Tōkyō mutan ( 東京夢譚 ) / Tokyo dreams, Sōshisha, Tokyo

In-between 8: Kikai Hiroo Porutogaru, Maruta (In-between 8 鬼海弘雄ポルトガル、マルタ ) / In-between,

8: Hiroh Kikai, Portugal, Malta, EU–Japan Fest Japan Committee, Tokyo

Perusona ( ぺるそな ) / Persona, Sōshisha, Tokyo

2003

Persona, Sōshisha, Tokyo

2001

Shiawase: Indo daichi no kodomo-tachi ( しあわせ：インド大地の子どもたち ) / Shanti: Children of India,

Fukuinkan, Tokyo 1999

Indo ya Gassan ( 印度や月山 , India and Gassan), Hakusuisha, Tokyo

Tōkyō meiro ( 東京迷路 ) / Tokyo Labyrinth, Shōgakukan, Tokyo

1996

Ya-Chimata: Ōtachi no kairō ( や・ちまた：王たちの回廊 , Ya-Chimata: A gallery of kings), Misuzu Shobō,

Tokyo 1992

India, Misuzu Shobō, Tokyo

1987

Ōtachi no shōzō: Sensō-ji keidai ( 王たちの肖像：浅草寺境内 ) / Ecce homo: Portraits of kings, Yatate,

Yokohama Art Fair 2020

GENDAI BIJUTSU, CADAN, Tokyo, Japan

Hiroh KIKAI

2005

空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA TREX(A)

Canon 12 color hybrid digital print on paper

Frame: 150 x 108 cm | 2020 ed. 02 / 10

（b. 1947）

出生於日本愛媛縣。現居日本東京。空山基從科幻電影《星際大戰四部曲：曙光乍現》及《大都會》中的女性形體 Maria 取得靈感，創作出代表作 SEXY ROBOT。1999 年所設計的機器人 AIBO 更被紐約現代美術館 (MoMA) 納入永久

館藏，至今作品跨足品牌擴及各大娛樂、影視、藝術、文化、人工智慧、音樂與時尚圈，視為最活躍於社群間的藝術家。自 80 年代起他將動物、生物、恐龍等機械化，對他而言，恐龍是小時候的

偶像，現在也持續懷抱當時對恐龍的狂熱。2021 年與描繪人類與恐龍共生世界的電影《侏羅紀世界》聯名，一同打造 UNIQLO UT 潮流系列。

曾獲朝日新聞發明獎 (2001)、出版《COMPLETE MASTERWORKS》(2017)、《SORAYAMA》(2016) 等多本書籍。作品曾多次在國際中展出：PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

(2020), D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea (2019), Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein,

Hajime SORAYAMA

空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA

Germany (2017), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2016), The Castlegate Hotel and

Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, US (1994) 等。亦典藏於：Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, US 等。

Born in Ehime, Japan, Hajime SORAYAMA currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Hajime SORAYAMA is known for his iconic

masterpiece “SEXY ROBOT” which was inspired by “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope” and the

female figure Maria in Lang’s “Metropolis”. His work AIBO (1991) is nowadays part of MOMA’s

permanent collection. As an artist who is active on social media, SORAYAMA as a brand has

been involved not only in the entertainment, audiovisual industry, art, cultural field but

also in artificial intelligence, music, and fashion industries. Since the 80s, he has been

successively making animals, living things, and

dinosaurs into robotic figures. To him, dinosaurs

were the heroes of his youth and this passion has been carrying on till nowadays. In 2021, he collaborated with the movie Jurassic World to create a series of t-shirts for UNIQLO UT.

He received Inventor’s award by Asahi newspaper in 2001 and had published several books such as

SORAYAMA (2016) and COMPLETE MASTERWORKS (2017). His works were exhibited in The Castlegate Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta,

GA, US (1994), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

(2016), Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany (2017), D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea (2019), PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan (2020), as well as being collected by Museum

of Modern Art, New York, US, World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, US…etc.

Hajime SORAYAMA currently lives in Tokyo, Japan

空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA Untitled 11

Acrylic on illustration board 72.8 x 51.5 cm | 2005

Sexy Robot Floating 1/4 scale Gold

Polyvinyl chloride,

acrylonitrile butadiene

styrene, gold plating-tone paint, alloy, LED light 56 x 35 x 35 cm | 2020

ed. 07 / 800 + AP. / 200

Hajime SORAYAMA

空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA

Exhibitions

Dinosauria ｜空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA ｜ NANZUKA ｜

February 17 - March 7, 2021

Media Exposure 你貢獻了多少摳摳？盤點 UNIQLO UT 2021 上半年「話題聯名」，每個都是必須收！ COOL

JUN 03, 2021

編輯 : Eddy Published

時間飛快來到 2021 年中，號稱「潮流藝術畫布」的 UNIQLO UT 系列也在上半年推出眾多話題聯名，相繼與許多藝術家、經典作品及單位合作，每每發售便引發話題，甚至有些一件難求。那

麼究竟這 6 個月， UNIQLO UT 帶來了哪些造成轟動的「聯名系列」呢？這次 COOL 就帶你盤點一番！趕緊把沒收到的買起來！

《侏儸紀世界》x 空山基 Hajime Sorayama

近來非常活耀的日本藝術家空山基 Hajime SORAYAMA 以充滿未來感的《SEXY ROBOT》打響

名號，擅長以金屬刻劃出優美的女體線條，近年更將金屬結合霸氣十足的暴龍，同樣深受好評，

可以說是備受藝術圈和潮流圈愛戴，相繼與 Dior 、 Stussy 及 Xlarge 等品牌聯乘。今年二月底空山基和 UNIQLO ㄒ宣布正式聯乘，以空山基的金屬暴龍 T-Rex 為題，找來經典電影《侏儸紀

世界》合作，打造出《侏儸紀世界》x 空山基 x UNIQLO UT 三方聯乘，重新詮釋古生物霸主，創造出跨越時空的「賽博格」生化恐龍。

空山基 Hajime Sorayama 最新個展《Dinosauria》正式開催一併帶來與電影《Jurassic World》合作的各項服飾。

Hypebeast

Feb 17, 2021

編輯 : Ann Chen

的生物機械化，今番選址於 NANZUK 澀谷 PARCO 開設的畫廊 NANZUKA 2G 展開全新個人特展，本回將圍繞自身的童年偶像「恐龍」為主體，一併帶來藝術家對動物運動樣態畫作與雕塑作品的精細刻畫。

個展中不僅首次展示劍龍、三角龍、迅猛龍等種類描繪成機械畫作外，還根據繪畫創作構築出霸王龍作為主題的鑄塑雕塑，另外還找來當地零售業巨頭 UNIQLO 結合人類與恐龍共存的夢幻電影《Jurassic World》協作各項

T-Shirt 可供購買。空山基 Hajime Sorayama 全新個展自 2 月 17 日至 3 月 7 日，而相關商品將於 3 月下旬登

陸於 UNIQLO 線上商店，位於日本的讀者不妨前往觀看，並多加留意與追蹤 HYPEBEAST ZH 全新 MeWe 頻道。 Hajime Sorayama Dinosauria 地點：NANZUKA 2G（澀谷 PARCO 2 樓 2G）地址：東京都澀谷區歌川町 15-1

https://hypebeast.com/zh/2021/2/hajime-sorayama-dinosauria-nanzuka-2g-exhibition-info

Awards 2001

Inventor's Award - Asahi newspaper

1999

Good Design Grand Prize Award

Media Art Festival Grand Prize Award

1996

Vargas Award

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

Smithsonian Institute of Technology Museum. Washington DC, US

World Erotic Art Museum, Miami, US

US Library of Congress. Washington DC, US

1947

Born in Ehime, Japan

Education 1969

BFA, Chuo Bijutsu Gakuen, Tokyo, Japan

Solo Exhibitions 2021

Dinosauria, NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan

2020

SEX MATTER, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

TREX, NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan

2019

SORAYAMA Space Park, Central Embassy, Bangkok, Thailand

2018

Sorayama Explosion 💥 , NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

editions, AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

2017

Sawasdee Sexy Robot by Hajime Sorayama, EchoOne ArtSpace, Bangkok, Thailand

Club Sorayama, LANDMARK, Hong Kong

空山基的械慾論 , Wrong Gallery Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2016

Sorayama, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY, US

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine., NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2015

AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

Little High, Tokyo, Japan

FIFTY24SF GALLERY, San Francisco, CA, US

2014

Stussy Guest Artist Series - HAJIME SORAYAMA Exhibition Curated by NANZUKA, STUSSY HARAJUKU CHAPTER, Tokyo, Japan

2013

AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

Hajime Sorayama x graniph Exhibition, graniph Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011

Hajime Sorayama : 1970-2010, Gering & Lopeg Gallery, New York, NY, US

NEO DISCIPLINE", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Neo Japonism & Obsession, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS/ B GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

2010

NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo, Japan

Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Opera Gallery, New York, NY, US

WEAM, Miami, FL, US

2007

EROTOVISION, Mondo Bizzarro Gallery, Rome, Italy

2005

Hysteric Mini 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition, Tokyo/ Osaka/ Hong Kong

Show Room, New York, NY, US

2003

Ginza Graphic Gallery, Tokyo/Osaka, Japan

2002

Bape Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1999

Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US

1998

Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US

ECR, Cologne, Germany

1994

UP'S Gallery

Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

the Castlegate Hotel and Conference Center, Atlanta, GA, US

1988

The Seibu Department Store Gallery, Hakodate, Japan

Group Exhibitions 2021

POP-ING- NANZUKA at AKI Gallery, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

H.R.GIGER x SORAYAMA, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

Underground of Diversity", Art Basel Miami Beach Online 2020

JP POP UNDERGROUND", Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F, Osaka, Japan

2019

Arsham × Sorayama, NANZUKA 2G, Tokyo, Japan

TOKYO POP UNDERGROUND, Jeffrey Deitch, LA, US

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center , Hong Kong

Span Art Gallery Collection 2019", Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

MUZAN -cruel and beauty-, VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

I draw, D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea

PEOPLE, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US

Taipei Dangdai, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2018

Bubble wrap, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto, Japan

COOL JAPAN, TROPEN MUSEUM, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tokyo Sweet Gwendoline, VANILLA GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan

AAF 7th Exhibition, Yamawaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

【第二回】丘の上の秘宝の間～アートでできた秘宝館～ , MERRY ART GALLERY, Kanagawa, Japan

EROTIC ART and ESOTERICISM, Vanilla gallery, Tokyo, Japan

The 30th Contemporary Art Exhibition, Imabari Kono Museum, Ehime, Japan

Hajime SORAYAMA

2017

Exhibition of Mythical beast IV, TOKYO KOTSU KAIKAN, Tokyo, Japan

Alice 2017, Roppongi stripe space, Tokyo, Japan

Blood and roses, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

AAF 6th Exhibition, Yamawaki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

ARRIVAL XX PLANET THE COLLECTION - EXHIBITION OF KAWS × MURAKAMI TAKASHI'S WORKS, Je Fine Art Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China

Katayama Masanori - Life is hard ... Let's go shopping., Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Space and Art Exhibition" (Traveled), Art Science Museum, Singapore

Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

TENGAI 3.0 (Traveled), hpgrp GALLERY TOKYO, Tokyo, Japan

The 29th Contemporary Art Exhibition, Imabari Kono Museum, Ehime, Japan

頹恋期 , Mangasick, Taipei, Taiwan

2016

Desire, Moore Building, Miami, FL, US

TENGAI 3.0, hpgrp GALLERY NEW YORK, New York, NY, US

The Universe and Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

TRIBUTE TO KOW YOKOYAMA, TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan

ALLOY & PEACE, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US

Exhibition of Mythical beast Ⅱ , Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan

MEDICOM TOY EXHIBITION'15, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

The Aesthetics of Fantasy - Japanese Erotica in Contemporary Art, Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan

Here is ZINE tokyo 10, Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan

FELIX THE CAT - Cats Out Of The Bag, SLOW CULTURE, Los Angeles, CA, US

2014

LEATHER JAPAN 2014, New York, NY, US

Amalia Ulman + Hajime Sorayama Exhibition, London, UK

JAPAN EROTICA, Musee de l’érotisme, Paris, France

with Hello Kitty, MDP GALLERY/SPACE M, Tokyo, Japan

PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! KILL!, Vanilla Gallery/ Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

O's story, billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

atrocity beauty, Vanilla Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

HORIYOSHI THE THIRD x Hajime Sorayama, Galleria Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan

KITAHARA COLLECTION, Takamatsu city museum of Art, Takamatsu, Japan

Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013

The Pop Surrealism Show, Opera Gallery, New York, NY, US

UKIYOE Roman Exhibition, Span Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

ALICE Fantasy tale exhibition, Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan

2012

Cosmic Fusion III, O museum, Tokyo, Japan

The ObsessionArt 5th Anniversary Exhibition, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK

Monster, billiken Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Japanese Erotic Artsts, Jinbocho Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011

MEDICOM TOY 15th ANNIVERSARY, PARCO MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan

Here is ZINE tokyo 2, Tokyo Cultuart BEAMS, Tokyo, Japan

Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art 40th Anniversary Special Exhibition, Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan

Märchenism, The Tobu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2010

CODE : EROTICA, Bunkamura, Tokyo, Japan

KITAHARA COLLECTION, Mori Arts Center Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009

Almost There - Time Tunnel Series Vol.29, G8, Tokyo, Japan

2008

CARNIVORA, FUSE Gallery, New York, NY / L'Imagerie Gallery, Los Angeles, CA / CPOP Gallery, Detroit, MI, US

2007

20th Anniversary Exhibitions "Graphics & Messages", GGG, Tokyo, Japan

2006

Ginza Recruit Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005

Winter Invitational, Art At Large, New York, NY, US

1997

Forum--Gelande, Castrop-Rauxel, Germany

1989

Ferrari Hall, Munich, Germany

Bibliography 2017

COMPLETE MASTERWORKS, Edition SKYLIGHT, Switzerland

2016

SORAYAMA, HIOSHINA, Tokyo, Japan

2015

Sexy Robot GIGANTES, Genko-sha, Tokyo, Japan

2014

PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! KILL!, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan XL Sorayama masterworks, Edition SKYLIGHT, Oetwil am See, Switzerland

2013

Vibrant Vixens, Edition SKYLIGHT, Oetwil am See, Switzerland

2010

Sorayama masterworks, Edition SKYLIGHT, Oetwil am See, Switzerland

2006

Relativision, Graphic-sha, Tokyo, Japan SORAYAMA:SECRETS REVEALED(DVD), Airbrush Action, Allenwood, NJ, USA

2003

Sorayama masterworks, Edition SKYLIGHT, Oetwil am See, Switzerland LATEX GALATEA, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan

2002

VENOM, Graphic-sha, Tokyo, Japan The Gynoids The Storage Box, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan

2001

SORAYAMA COMPLETE WORKS, published by Edition SKYLIGHT, Oetwil am See, Switzerland

2000

Sorayamart, Soleil Production, Toulon, France Sorayama, Moira, Editions Kunst der Comisc Gmbh, Sonneberg, Germany

Hajime SORAYAMA

METALLICON, Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan The Gynoids-reborn, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan The Gynoids-Genetically Manipilated, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan

1999

SORAYAMA 1964-1999, Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan

1998

Torquere, published by Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan

1997

Naga, Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan Sorayama, Call in Beauties, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo, Japan SORAYAMA VOLUME II CD-Rom, MSD-Japan, Tokyo, Japan

1996

Lithograph, Robert Bane Editions, Beverly Hills, CA, US SORAYAMA VOLUME I CD-Rom, MSD-Japan, Tokyo, Japan Silver & Satin, Comic Image, Berkeley, CA, US

1995

HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards 2, Comic Image, Comic Image, Berkeley, CA, US Beginning of monthly publication of works by SORAYAMA in Penthouse Magazin

1994

HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards, Comic Image, Comic Image, Berkeley, CA, USA Lithograph, Robert Bane Editions, Beverly Hills, CA, US Special Sorayama article appeared in the Silver Anniversary issue of Penthouse Magazin Sorayama, Moira, Editions Kunst der Comisc Gmbh, Sonneberg, Germany METALLICON, Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan The Gynoids-reborn, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan The Gynoids-Genetically Manipilated, Editions Treville, Tokyo, Japan

1993

THE GYNOIDS, Sakuhin-sha, Tokyo, Japan HAJIME SORAYAMA Collector Cards, Comic Image, Comic Image, Berkeley, CA, US

1992 1989

Hyper Illustrations 2, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo, Japan Hyper Illustrations, Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, Tokyo, Japan Hajime Sorayama, Tschen, Cologne, Germany

1988

Poster Book SEXY ROBOT, Tschen, Cologne, Germany

1985

Venus Odyssey, Tokuma communications, Tokyo, Japan Illustration Video, published by Fuji Television, Tokyo, Japan

1984

Pinup, Graphic-sha, Tokyo, Japan

1983

Sexy Robot, Genko-sha, Tokyo, Japan

Projects

2017

Hajime Sorayama x BE@RBRICK by MEDICOM TOY

Hajime Sorayama x HBX

Hajime Sorayama x HYPEBEAST

Hajime Sorayama x KAWI JAMELE 10th Anniversary

2016

DARKSTAR x SORAYAMA SKATEBOARD DECK

JUUN.J x HAJIME SORAYAMA "Pitti Uomo 2016 A/W"

2014

Stussy x Hajime Sorayama Guest Artist T-Shirt Series

Hajime Sorayama x British Knights "Art and The Future"

2013

Hajime Sorayama x graniph Collaboration T-Shirts

Central Plumbing Specialties partners with INAX for fundraiser

2009

Sorayama Sexy Robot T-shirt and poster by SixPack

KAWS "No Future Companion" by Sorayama version by MEDICOM TOY

2007

Toshihiko Takamizawa, "Kaleidoscope" cover art

2006

3RDWARE Artist Collection

MONDO MARTINI by HAJIME SORAYAMA

2005

White Dunk Project by Nike To view Sorayama's Work

Playboy TV "Sexcetra" aired

2004

BE@RBRICK WORLDWIDE TOUR by MEDICOM TOY

2003

Hajime Sorayama x Disney x TOMY "BDhyp. FUTURE MICKEY"

2001

Aerosmith, "Just Push Play" cover art

1999

Sorayama designed Sony Entertainment Dog Robot "AIBO"

Hajime SORAYAMA

2011

Yuji HONBORI

本堀雄二 Yuji HONBORI Vaiśravaṇa

Used cardboard boxes, wood, mixed media

68.5 x 24 x 22 cm | 2016

Yuji HONBORI

本堀雄二 Yuji HONBORI

（b. 1958）

出生於日本兵庫縣，畢業於愛知縣立藝術大學美術系雕塑專業，現居日本。本堀雄二對於藝術有著獨特看法，他使用日常生活中會出現的材料如：平凡無奇的瓦楞紙、建造房屋的廢材，與大量的碎木頭來打造一尊尊莊嚴的佛像。以最低限卻極其細膩的方式，將一般運用貴金屬打造的佛像 (Kami) 改為相同讀音的紙 (Kami) 材質製作，再現萬物皆有神的寓意，賦與已無用處的廢棄之物嶄新的靈魂生命。

作品曾多次在國際中展出：“Art Basel Hong Kong 2019" Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong (2019), Sagae City Museum of Art, Yamagata, Japan,

AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong (2014), PRUDENTIAL EYE AWARDS, Singapore (2014)。亦曾獲典藏：Mineapolis Institute of Arts, US, Takahashi Collection, Tokyo ( 高橋龍太郎藏品 )。

Born in Hyogo, Japan. Yuji HONBORI graduated

from Sculpture Division at the Department of

Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine

Arts and Music. He currently lives and works in Hyogo, Japan.

Along with his unique point of view toward

art, Yuji HONBORI chooses materials that are easy to be found in daily life to build Buddha

statues. Objects such as cartons, construction waste, and chopped wood appear often in his creation. Contrary to his minimum use

of resources, HONBORI applies a rather delicate and exquisite method for his artistic

approach. His thoughtfulness also reflects on

the relationship between materials and work

objects. As paper and god are homonymic in Japanese*, he utilizes found paper to build

buddha statues that are often made of metals to deliver the message of animism in his work, as well as giving wastes a second life.

His work has been exhibited worldwide in PRUDENTIAL EYE AWARDS in Singapore (2014),

Sagae City Museum of Art, AISHONANZUKA (2014), Art Basel Hong Kong (2019). In addition, his work is collected by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as part of the Takahashi Collection.

* Both paper and god pronounce “kami”in Japanese language.

Yuji HONBORI © Yuji HONBORI

Exhibitions

POP-ING, NANZUKA at AKI

Gallery》｜本堀雄二 Yuji HONBORI ｜ AKI Gallery ｜ JUN 15 - JUL 25, 2021

POP-ING, NANZUKA at AKI

Gallery》｜本堀雄二 Yuji HONBORI ｜ AKI Gallery ｜ JUN 15 - JUL 25, 2021

Media Exposure AISHONANZUKA is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of new works by Yuji Honbori. This will be Yuji Honbori ´ first solo show in HongKong. artrabbit

OCT 18, 2014

編輯 : Luke Nairn

About

Yuji Honbori born in Kobe city in 1958.

After graduated from sculpture division

of Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, he continued his art creation

while teaching the youngsters heading for art colleges. His works came to front at the

Kobe Biennale in 2009 and 2010, and the solo exhibition at the INAX gallery in Tokyo 2010, when he represented the cardboard Buddhas.

Honbori’s Buddhas are produced all by used

cardboard. It looks transmissive from the front and fragments of cardboard become

stereoscopic from the side. It is significant to use the recycle material like wood, paper, newspaper and milk cartons for Honbori’s

works however its concept is more about

metempsychosis in Buddhism rather than ecological issues. After he experienced the Great Hanshin Earthquake, he felt more hesitation in using new materials and found

the used cardboard as his material. The strength of Honbori’s works is in the gap of making the Buddha that people adore from the cardboard that finished its use.

The exhibition includes about 5 of new cardboard Buddhas and big installation of Amitabha Tathagata. Yuji Honbori will be visiting HongKong for the exhibition and a reception will take place on 18th Oct at 17:00 with the artist present.

https://www.artrabbit.com/events/yuji-honbori

Sustainable Buddhas Made of Cardboard HYPERALLERGIC July 31, 2012

編輯 : An Xiao

© Yuji HONBORI LOS ANGELES —Travel around East and Southeast Asia enough and you’ll invariably come across at least one big Buddha. Cut from stone or marble or any other substantive material, they dominate the room with their presence.

Clicking through Spoon & Tamago recently, I came across the work of Kobe-based sculptor Yuji Honbori. The artist makes stunning Buddha installations out of cardboard material on its way to the dumpster:

Honbori has always been interested in recycled materials, but not in a devotional way. He got his start

making large-scale sculptures out of wood from demolished houses. But it wasn’t until 8 years ago when he was working with wood from a demolished temple that he got the idea. And since then he’s been fascinated with how one man’s trash can be another man’s treasure.

https://hyperallergic.com/54685/yuji-honbori-sustainable-buddhas-made-of-cardboard/

Public Collections

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, US

Takahashi Collection, Tokyo

1958

Born in Hyogo, Japan

Educations 1983

Sculpture Division, Department of Fine Arts, Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music

Solo Exhibitions 2019

JOUDO ー捨てる紙あれば拾う神ありー , Fuji Paper Art Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

2017

Yakushido, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2014

New works, AISHONANZUKA, Hong Kong

2013

Fujin Raijin, NANZUKA, Tokyo, Japan

2011

BUTSU, Hase Temple, Kanagawa, Japan Gallery HAKU, Osaka, Japan

2010

BUTSU, Hase Temple, Kanagawa, Japan INAX Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Gallery HAKU, Osaka, Japan

2009

Gallery HAKU, Osaka, Japan

2008

Gallery HAKU, Osaka, Japan

2006

Gallery KITANOSAKA, Hyogo, Japan

2002

TOR ROAD GALLERY, Hyogo, Japan

1993

Gallery NAITO, Aichi, Japan

1992

Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1989

Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1988

Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan

1987

City Gallery, Hyogo, Japan

Group Exhibitions 2021

POP-ING- NANZUKA at AKI Gallery, AKI Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2019

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019" Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong The 22nd Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art, TARO OKAMOTO MUSEUM of ART, Kanagawa, Japan

2014

PRUDENTIAL EYE AWARDS, Singapore

2012

Shuffle II, Art Fair Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2011

Shuffle, NANZUKA UNDERGROUND, Tokyo, Japan Nine perspectives, Tsuchiya contemporary art gallery, Osaka, Japan

Kobe Biennale 2011, Hyogo, Japan

2009

LEXHIBITION, L Gallery,F-1, Aichi, Japan Kobe Biennale 2009, Hyogo, Japan

1992

Artists in Hyogo Exhibition, Hyogo, Japan The Surface of Dotted Line1992, Gallery NAITO, Aichi, Japan

1991

Tenri Biennale'91, Nara, Japan

1990

Artists in Hyogo Exhibition, Hyogo, Japan Festival of Contemporary Wood Sculptures, Gifu, Japan

1989

Kyoto Art Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan Ten Exhibition, Nara, Japan Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shiga, Japan Contemporary Art Fair in Osaka '89, Osaka, Japan

1988

Festival of Contemporary Wood Sculptures, Gifu, Japan

Yuji HONBORI

2011

佃弘樹 Hiroki TSUKUDA Remnant Seal 03

Charcoal, acrylic ink and pencil on paper, wood panel, with silkscreen printed acrylic frame 100 x 100 x 4.3 cm (

⌀ 100 cm) | 2021

（b. 1978）

出生於日本香川縣，畢業於武藏野美術大學攝影專業，現居日本東京。佃弘樹的手繪作品多為圖稿、快照等集合而成的拼貼畫作。他操作照片的色彩、位置的關係性、解

析度、並將素材加以破壞後開始製作。他的創作並非單純運用視覺技巧，而是根據超現實主義之父

André Breton (1896-1966) 所提到的《看見幻覺的力量》，作為基礎並加以詮釋。他年幼時曾經對單一的視覺感到質疑，相信視覺是有多重可能性的存在，並一直深信另一個世界存在。例如自然

Hiroki TSUKUDA

佃弘樹 Hiroki TSUKUDA

風景裡與巨大的建築體同時出現，根據它們不同型態的組成與相對關係之變化，事情的意義極有可能發生改變。將腦內記憶的過程用不同手法來呈現，即是佃弘樹的重要靈感來源。

作品曾多次在國際中展出：Petzel, New York, US (2020), The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan (2019), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein , Aachen, Germany (2017) 等。亦典藏於：Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan,

The Museum of Modern Art, NewYork, US, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Foundation, Vienna, Austria, Jean Pigozzi foundation, Geneva, Switzerland。

Born in Kagawa, Japan. He graduated with BFA, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.

Most of his works are hand-painted collages composed of drafts and snapshots. He manipulated the color of the photo, the relationships between the locations, the resolution, and destroyed the material before starting his production. His creation does not simply use visual techniques, but is based on and interprets the “Manifesto of Surrealism" mentioned by André Breton (1896-1966), the father of Surrealism. He questioned the vision of singularity. He believed in multiple possibilities in the vision of humans and was always deeply convinced of the existence of another world during his childhood. For example, according to the changes in their different forms of composition and relations, the meaning of things is very likely to change when the natural landscapes and huge buildings appear at the same time. The process of presenting the memories is an important inspiration for TSUKADA.

His works had been exhibited in Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (2017), The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan (2019), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2019), Petzel, New York, US (2020). The public collections of the works included in the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US, Thyssen-Bornemisza A r t

C o n t e m p o r a r y ,

Foundation, Vienna, Austria, Jean Pigozzi foundation, Geneva, Switzerland.

He lives and works in Tokyo.

Exhibitions

4021 ｜佃弘樹 Hiroki TSUKADA ｜

NANZUKA ｜ April 16 - June 20, 2021

Media Exposure Hiroki Tsukuda Crafts New Dystopian World for NYC Exhibition Cyberpunk fantasy meets real-life space exploration. HYPEART

Jun 20, 2018

編輯 : Keith Estiler

© Makoto TANIGUCHI Tokyo-based artist Hiroki Tsukuda is known for his black charcoal and ink drawings of futuristic cityscapes and cybernetic environments. This March, the artist is bringing a new series of work to NYC’s Petzel Gallery for a solo exhibition entitled “They Live.” In reference to John Carpenter’s 1988 cult

classic film of the same name, “They Live” presents a dystopian reality in which society is controlled by humanoid extraterrestrials.

Drawn to sci-fi since his early childhood, Tsukuda found inspiration in dystopic thrillers, apocalyptic novels and cyberpunk manga. Working in drawing and digital collage, the artist transforms these images

of “controlled chaos and organic mutation” into multi-dimensional pictures comprised of created

images, computerized characters and cryptic hieroglyphics. Tsukuda’s highly detailed works depict new worlds that are both fantastical and rooted in real-life space exploration.

Ckeck out Tsukuda’s Neon Demon (2019) in the gallery above. “They Live” will run from March 5 to April 18.

In related news, Tsukuda’s design of Tokyo Tower will be included in the UNIQLO NEO-MIYAGE UT collection.

Petzel Gallery 456 W 18th St

New York, NY 10011 https://hypebeast.com/2020/2/hiroki-tsukuda-they-live-petzel-gallery-exhibition