Dinosaurs 🦕🌿, leaf artwork by Raku Inoue
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Tomoko Kashiki — With Benjamina and Wall (acrylic, pencil, pastel and linen on wooden panel, 2012)
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Legendary Japanese Robot Artist Hajime Sorayama Show in Vancouver
The "Space Traveler" solo exhibition by legendary Japanese robot artist Hajime Sorayama at the CICA Vancouver Canada runs from July 26, 2023 through September 16, 2023. This appears to be the same the art show that was recently on in Harajuku (photos are from Harajuku).
"Space Traveler" at CICA Vancouver
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Genpei Akasegawa’s One-Thousand-Yen Note Trial Impounded Objects.
In thriving Japan of the 1960s, an artist decides to rebel against the westernisation of his culture by using banknotes as his creative medium. His art using Japanese currency as a medium was symbolically intended to undermine the value of the legal tender, injecting uncertainty into the sacred status of the banknote, revealing its illegitimacy as a protest against the country’s increasing proclivity toward capitalism.
Copying and tampering with the design of a ¥1,000 note, his work became controversial when in 1967 he was convicted for the crime of imitating currency. Despite two appeals, he was given a three-month prison sentence in 1970.
In his trial, Akasegawa pointed out, “Even if we know intellectually what the monetary system is, the ‘perpetrator’ – the currency – constantly overshadows us, clings to our work and our actions like eyelids to our bodies, and before our eyes, sneaks into our wallets/our beings, and aided by the speed with which it circulates despite our wishes, without time to look it in the face, wraps us in the long rope it drags.”
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Sachiho Ikeda, The Burning Grass, 2017, acrylic on cotton cloth, 100 × 65.2 cm.
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A Long Excuse, 2023
Acrylic board on wooden box, florescent light
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Vampire ( 吸血鬼 )
Takato Yamamoto
2006
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Koki Tsujimoto — Auspicious Blue & White Whale (mineral pigments on japanese paper mounted on wood panel, 2021)
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Yoshitomo Nara Art Show in Australia
Japanese contemporary artist Yoshitomo Nara will have a solo exhibition at Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth from February 26, 2023 to June 25, 2023. Exhibition Details
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Basking in the Surreal Summer of '01 ¥ - from Egg Magazine
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