Hello, Here I Am - Couverture rigide

Takamatsu, Kazuki

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8898565119 ISBN 13 : 9788898565115

Editeur : Drago Arts & Communication, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The volume is the first monograph by the Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu, published on the occasion of his comeback with the solo show "Even a Doll Can Do It", from February 14th to April 4th, at the Dorothy Circus Gallery in Rome, the diamond point in the European Pop Surrealist scene.

The artist puts up feminine bodies, half dolls, with Japanese features, painted in black and white through the depth mapping technique, which gets from digital research to gouache and acrylic painting, achieving a multi-layered and tridimensional effect, full of transparencies, inspired by the holograms and the X-ray vision.

The book, with its elegant cover and numerous images, allows the reader to discover Kazuki Takamatsu's iconography, its roots - from nature to manga - and the dialogue between popular culture, technology and the study of moods and states of mind. The result is an intimate universe, permeated by melancholy, in which the choice of monochromatism recalls the fight between the good and the evil, the marginal area between the light and the darkness.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

• Ethereal and spellbinding artwork from a innovative voice in Japanese art
• The first monograph by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu
Everything is black and white.

Takamatsu's hand-painted monochrome images are created using a mixture of watercolour and opaque white pigments in gouache. "White and black metaphorically express the ambiguity of positive and negative, good and evil, race and religion," the artist writes. After meticulously painting multiple gouache layers, Takamatsu colours each individual pixel of the object a different shade of grey, resulting in an astonishing sense of depth and surrealism.

"His hologram-like, female characters look digitized," writes Hi-Fructose, "though they're executed entirely by hand." This extreme attention to detail allows the viewer to experience Takamatsu's fantastical depictions of Japanese women in an immersive presentation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Drago Arts & Communication
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 8898565119
• ISBN 13: 9788898565115
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 120