TAB Event - "2010 Frantic Underlines Part 2"

"2010 Frantic Underlines Part 2"

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At Frantic Gallery
Media: Painting, Installation, Art Party

"2010 Frantic Underlines” supports the radical changes that are happening just now in the contemporary Japanese art scene. We observe the decline of the despotic empire of the “Wonderland”-style art and consequent unfolding of a plurality of new dimensions in contemporary art. We stand now at a crossroads that could lead in multiple directions. We see art that exists in parallel to the bubbled surface of the Superflat-Micropop history. We foresee new exhibitions that are based on contemplation and consciousness, not the empty self-obliterating hedonism of amusement parks. We make 2,010 frantic underlines to mark one possible starting line for the art of the future and to provide vectors that lead to those artists who have actually always been here.

frantic gallery underlines Aya Onishi’s research into the compositional strength of Japanese chopsticks when they are intertwined with the soft figures of endless intestines and elephant noses. We stress Onishi’s interest in imaginary of food and introduce her “Needlework” series of paintings dedicated to the beauty of a bounty of red salmon eggs that are bursting out from behind a skin-like stitched white cloth.