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Aki Tsukamoto "A Thing That is Flat and Swell"
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Aki Tsukamoto
Taguchi Fine Art is pleased to announce the first solo show by a Japanese painter, Aki Tsukamoto.
Aki Tsukamoto was born in Saitama, Japan in 1989. Completed the graduate course in printmaking at Musashino Art University in 2014. While studying in school, he worked for Takashi Murakami at Kaikai-Kiki until he moved to the U.S. in 2016. In New York, he worked as an assistant to Tomokazu Matsuyama while creating and presenting his works in galleries there. He returned to Japan in 2020 due to the Corona disaster and currently lives and works in Tokyo.
Having studied the silkscreen technique in graduate school, Tsukamoto was naturally attracted to Pop Art, which is closely related to the technique.
During his stay in New York, Tsukamoto became familiar with graphic culture. Through repeated trial and error arrived at his current style "New Cubism," in which he uses compositions taken from modern paintings and cubist techniques to depict popular animation and cartoon characters with vivid colors.
By arranging motifs from different contexts with sampling techniques, sometimes in a surrealistic manner, Tsukamoto attempts to create a new and original world that cannot be defined by existing values or words.
Tsukamoto has often been discussed in the context of street art and design, focusing only on pop color tones and motifs, but his intensive commitment to the oil painting technique, awareness of precise color selection and line drawing, and active involvement in examining art history shall be examined and justified from a fine art perspective and then his works must be highly regarded.
Aki Tsukamoto was born in Saitama, Japan in 1989. Completed the graduate course in printmaking at Musashino Art University in 2014. While studying in school, he worked for Takashi Murakami at Kaikai-Kiki until he moved to the U.S. in 2016. In New York, he worked as an assistant to Tomokazu Matsuyama while creating and presenting his works in galleries there. He returned to Japan in 2020 due to the Corona disaster and currently lives and works in Tokyo.
Having studied the silkscreen technique in graduate school, Tsukamoto was naturally attracted to Pop Art, which is closely related to the technique.
During his stay in New York, Tsukamoto became familiar with graphic culture. Through repeated trial and error arrived at his current style "New Cubism," in which he uses compositions taken from modern paintings and cubist techniques to depict popular animation and cartoon characters with vivid colors.
By arranging motifs from different contexts with sampling techniques, sometimes in a surrealistic manner, Tsukamoto attempts to create a new and original world that cannot be defined by existing values or words.
Tsukamoto has often been discussed in the context of street art and design, focusing only on pop color tones and motifs, but his intensive commitment to the oil painting technique, awareness of precise color selection and line drawing, and active involvement in examining art history shall be examined and justified from a fine art perspective and then his works must be highly regarded.
Schedule | Sep 2 (Sat) 2023-Oct 14 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Reception for artist Sep 2 (Sat) 2023 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Taguchi Fine Art http://www.taguchifineart.com/Etop.html  | ||||
| Location | B1F Yamasan Bldg., 2-6-13 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 5 at Shin-Nihombashi Station on the JR Sobu and Yokosuka lines, 5 minute walk from exit A4 at Mitsukoshimae Station on the Ginza and Hanzomon lines, 8 minute walk from exit A5 at Ningyocho Station on the Hibiya or Toei Asakusa line | ||||
| Phone | 03-5652-3660 | ||||
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