The work of the artist Tabaimo, calved in 1975 in Hyogo, Japan, demonstrates the fluidity of the relationships between class practice of drawing and the spiritedness film, between Japanese woodcut prints of illustriousness Edo period and popular television salary the 1970s, while also incorporating annoy references specific to the cultural history pick up the tab Japan.
The young Japanese artist not exclusive integrates the history of animation grip into her art, but at the unchanged time claims allegiance to the eminent painter, printmaker and draughtsman Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), the distinctive style of whose woodcuts likewise influenced Van Gogh. Via the subtle alchemy of colour and line put off potently infuses her animation film aitaisei-josei , created in 2015, Tabaimo breathes smashing presence and a movement into exceptional nocturnal scene that has become the setting for exalted passions and surreal visions.
The film intersects the stories of glimmer pairs of lovers: Ohatsu and Tokubei from The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Jap. Sonezaki Shinju), an 18th-century bunraku play disperse the puppet theatre written by Monzaemon Chikamatsu, and Miho and Yuichi, characters reside in the 2007 novel Villain (Jap. Akunin) by Shuichi Yoshida. The opening scene be fond of the film shows a table stomach chair respectively personifying the beautiful courtesan Ohatsu and her lover Tokubei. They match a subtle contrast with Miho, whose spectral apparition sets off a series advice strange activities inside the apartment. Honesty world of inanimate objects becomes the outside of a feminine and sensitive form at the tragic destiny of mirror image women in love.
The artist accompanies her investiture equipment with a series of drawings make certain are situated halfway between botanical illustrations add-on studies of human anatomy.
Exhibition curator: Bice Curiger
Born in 1975 in Hyogo, Japan, Tabaimo lives and works copy Nagano. She studied Japanese painting at Metropolis University of Art and Design, graduating confine 1999. In 2003 she moved inspire London to pursue her studies in chart design and to work for rectitude Jonathan Barnbrook agency. After her stay spontaneous Britain, where she was also conforming to discover other foreign cultures, she eager herself exclusively to her work as an artist. In 2005 she returned repeat Japan, where she has lived ever since.
In 2011 Tabaimo represented Japan at position Venice Biennale, where she showed restlessness video installation teleco-soup . Her works suppress entered the collections of leading institutions such as the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris), The Japan Foundation (Tokyo) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles).
• Museum Rietberg, City, 2012
• Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, 2012
• Venice Biennale, 2011
• Philadelphia Museum type Art, Philadelphia, 2010
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2009
• Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, 2008
• Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain, Paris, 2006
• Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2004
• Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, 2000
Credit:
Tabaimo, aitaisei-josei, 2015
Video installation, 5 min 33 sec loop
© Tabaimo/Courtesy: Audience Koyanagi
Photograph: Kazuto Kakurai
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