TAB Event - Masayoshi Aigasa "Daily Life"

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At Tsukuba Museum of Art, Ibaraki
Media: Painting

More than anything, painter Masayoshi Aigasa loves to paint the human figure. For him, depicting the everyday and his family is the only way to look closely at the world.

Aigasa started exhibiting in the late 1960s, attracting attention for his printmaking and collage series, "Anti-Civilization Syndrome." Later, in the 70s, he also received much acclaim for his new forms of representational oil paintings that took daily life as their theme.

The figures depicted in Aigasa's work are "us," the people of the Showa and Heisei eras. They portray what we appear to be, who we are, depicted in ordinary urban locations like a train station. The sorrows of urban life are expressed humorously and ironically. For instance, a painting portraying a middle-age man looking at animals at a zoo exudes a sense of both humor and sympathy.

Through these everyday scenes, this exhibition aims to highlight what lies at the bottom of our minds in this rapidly changing society. A total of 120 works, including 70 oil paintings, prints and collages are on display.

Gallery Talk
May 9th (Sat), 16th (Sat), 14:00
Admission ticket required. Please come to the gallery five minutes in advance.

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