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Ichiro Irie
Eeitoeiko is pleased to present the “Googleheim Collection,” an exhibition of new paintings by Ichiro Irie. On view from June 3 - June 24, 2023, this marks the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. Ichiro Irie's work captures the motorization and consumerism of the city of Los Angeles, where he has lived since childhood. Irie has a multifaceted perspective on Japanese, American, and Mexican culture, having spent seven years living and working in Mexico after receiving a Fulbright Fellowship in 2001.
In this exhibition, "The Googleheim Collection," Irie will present a series of paintings based on works by internationally known modern, contemporary, and other historical artists who are commonly found in art textbooks and alter them through the playful manipulation of language. Through wordplay, canonical works by artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Caspar David Friedrich, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and others are crosscut with images of personalities from manga, film, animation, music, politics, and even terrorists, tracing the surface of the world formed by mass media and the internet search engine. Irie may be showing that even within the universality of art found in these masterpieces lurks a fluidity whose perception shifts and changes with the times. Irie's “collection,” a nod to the Art and Culture Halls of Fame built generations ago in New York by a mining magnate and more recently by a giant IT company, seems to demonstrate how our understanding of art, among other forms of cultural production, has been, for better or worse, thoroughly and irrevocably transformed by the world wide web and social media.
In this exhibition, "The Googleheim Collection," Irie will present a series of paintings based on works by internationally known modern, contemporary, and other historical artists who are commonly found in art textbooks and alter them through the playful manipulation of language. Through wordplay, canonical works by artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Caspar David Friedrich, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and others are crosscut with images of personalities from manga, film, animation, music, politics, and even terrorists, tracing the surface of the world formed by mass media and the internet search engine. Irie may be showing that even within the universality of art found in these masterpieces lurks a fluidity whose perception shifts and changes with the times. Irie's “collection,” a nod to the Art and Culture Halls of Fame built generations ago in New York by a mining magnate and more recently by a giant IT company, seems to demonstrate how our understanding of art, among other forms of cultural production, has been, for better or worse, thoroughly and irrevocably transformed by the world wide web and social media.
Schedule | Jun 3 (Sat) 2023-Jun 24 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jun 3 (Sat) 2023 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Eitoeiko http://eitoeiko.com/  | ||||
| Location | 32-2 Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0805 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 2 at Kagurazaka Station on the Tozai line, 10 minute walk from exit A1 at Ushigome-kagurazaka Station on the Toei Oedo line, 12 minute walk from exit 2 at Edogawabashi Station on the Yurakucho line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6873-3830 | ||||
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