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Yuichi Yokoyama
Yuichi Yokoyama (born in 1967, Miyazaki Prefecture) graduated from Musashino Art University's oil painting department. After spending days exploring his painting expressions by drawing landscapes and figures on plywood with paint, he expanded his creative scope to manga around 2000, focusing on "drawing time." In 2004, he made his debut with the graphic novel "New Engineering."
Yokoyama's unique expression, characterized by dynamic lines, onomatopoeia, and characters transcending gender and nationality, is referred to as "Neo Manga" and is highly praised both domestically and internationally.
His works include publications such as "Plaza," "Burning Sound," "Room," "Iceland," "Between World Maps," "Baby Boom," "Outdoor," "Niwa," "Travel," and many others, with translations in France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Russia, and more. In 2021, a painting spanning 8 meters was permanently installed at the Jobashi Tower.
Yokoyama's manga lacks a clear narrative but features minimal, enigmatic conversations, unfriendly and purposeless actions, and depictions of mysterious objects moving and transforming. Through the clever use of panel size and density, he unfolds a continuous series of scenes depicting a world both familiar and unfamiliar, past and future, all while embodying the pure flow of time. Simultaneously, it offers an overview of the world observed, recorded, and lived by entities living in a time and space different from humans.
Yokoyama's work generates a persistent noise in the viewer's visual perception through bold repetitions of onomatopoeia representing movement and commotion, creating a sense of excitement and immersion as if continuously exposed to harsh noise. This experience leads to a loss of both spatial and temporal perception.
The exhibition will feature his latest painting "Cooperation" (2023), three-dimensional works from the "Earth Day" series (2023), the first presentation in East Japan of the fusuma painting "Zen Temple," representative paintings from the past, drawings, manga originals, and more.
Yokoyama's unique expression, characterized by dynamic lines, onomatopoeia, and characters transcending gender and nationality, is referred to as "Neo Manga" and is highly praised both domestically and internationally.
His works include publications such as "Plaza," "Burning Sound," "Room," "Iceland," "Between World Maps," "Baby Boom," "Outdoor," "Niwa," "Travel," and many others, with translations in France, the United States, Italy, Spain, Russia, and more. In 2021, a painting spanning 8 meters was permanently installed at the Jobashi Tower.
Yokoyama's manga lacks a clear narrative but features minimal, enigmatic conversations, unfriendly and purposeless actions, and depictions of mysterious objects moving and transforming. Through the clever use of panel size and density, he unfolds a continuous series of scenes depicting a world both familiar and unfamiliar, past and future, all while embodying the pure flow of time. Simultaneously, it offers an overview of the world observed, recorded, and lived by entities living in a time and space different from humans.
Yokoyama's work generates a persistent noise in the viewer's visual perception through bold repetitions of onomatopoeia representing movement and commotion, creating a sense of excitement and immersion as if continuously exposed to harsh noise. This experience leads to a loss of both spatial and temporal perception.
The exhibition will feature his latest painting "Cooperation" (2023), three-dimensional works from the "Earth Day" series (2023), the first presentation in East Japan of the fusuma painting "Zen Temple," representative paintings from the past, drawings, manga originals, and more.
Schedule | Jan 27 (Sat) 2024-Feb 24 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jan 27 (Sat) 2024 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://anomalytokyo.com/en/exhibition/yuichi_yokoyama_earth-day/ | ||||
| Venue | Anomaly http://anomalytokyo.com/en/top/ | ||||
| Location | 4F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6433-2988 | ||||
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