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A MULTI-LAYERED IMAGERY Sayaka Maruyama’s practice traverses the mediums of photography, film, drawings, collages, on classical Japanese references and surrealist motifs. Her work explores contradictory contemporary understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, from both Western and Eastern perspectives. Maruyama primarily gained notoriety for her Japan Avant-Garde series, in which the artist intertwined digitally manipulated images […]
MANGA AND FILM NOIR Throughout his work, Shohei Otomo – a Japanese artist and the son of Katsuhiro Otomo who created and directed the famous manga Akira – combines three elements. First is the traditional Japanese art. Never inserting more than needed, Otomo tells the complete story by drawing one character at the time. Second […]
CONFUSING CRAKED PORTRAITS ‘Cracked portraits’ by japanese designer Taisuke Mohri are a series of detailed pencil artworks overlayed with a pane of cracked glass – known as the ‘material cracks’. The confronting work errs on the edge of something existent in reality and something imagined – offered only by the precise hyper-real workmanship – where […]
