Made in Japan: Ayako Rokkaku, Takashi Murakami, Yoshiaki Ishikawa ('Marty')
Amsterdam, May 13
- Gallery Delaive at Art Amsterdam: Stand 105 RAI May 13-17, 2009
In 2009, the Netherlands commemorates 400 years of trade relations
between the Netherlands and Japan. This year, Gallery Delaive will show
the work of three Japanese artists at the Art Amsterdam.
"...I want to keep drawing for as long as possible..."
The artist Ayako Rokkaku (1982) made this statement in an interview at
the Geisai #9 in 2006 where she participated with her own stand. Kaikai
Kiki, the company of the renowned Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami
launched this fair to support cutting-edge upcoming Japanese artists.
Ayako Rokkaku was the winner of the Scout Prize at Geisai #4 and the Akio
Goto Prize at Geisai #9. Geisai invited high profile industry experts such as
François-Henri Pinault, owner of auction house Christie's and PPR, and the
architect Tadao Ando who both took part of the panel of judges for Geisai #9.
Artists Yoshimoto Nara and David Ellis formed a jury panel in earlier
editions of Geisai.
Rokkaku's work attracted the attention of many young art lovers, as well
as one of the members of the jury, gallery owner Emmanuel Perrotin, who was
seen acquiring her work.
Since Ayako Rokkaku's participation at the Geisai #9 in 2006 and after
her success at the TEFAF 2009 and the ART FAIR TOKYO 2009 (45.000 visitors),
she will once again participate at the ART AMSTERDAM.
The power of her direct approach to the canvas is manifested in
her 'performance paintings' which she creates live at art fairs. As an
audience of such a happening we get the chance to be part of her world.
From the 13th of May, visitors can witness Rokkaku painting the exterior
wall of the stand of Gallery Delaive. She will perform a live painting
session on a 3 by 7 metre canvas. Rokkaku has mastered her own painting
technique, applying the acrylic paint on the cardboard sheets or canvas with
her bare hands.
After last month's exhibition at KaiKai Kiki Gallery in Tokyo, Takashi
Murakami's (1962) hyperrealistic sculpture 'Inochi' will be shown at the
Gallery Delaive stand. For the past few months, visitors have already seen a lifesize Inochi as part of a
retrospective of Murakami's work in the
Guggenheim Bilbao (until May 31 2009), the Brooklyn Museum in New York and the Museum für
Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.
The sculpture exists in five different and coloured designs and each
version is limited to 200 pieces. Murakami's sculpture 'Inochi' will have its first show in Europe at Gallery
Delaive.
Yoshiaki Ishikawa ('Marty', 1973), is a young and upcoming Japanese
photographer with a laborious technique. His photographs are a reflection of
his own world. First he makes a photograph in nature with a digital camera,
then he paints an image of it.
Finally he incorporates these various images into a new entity.
SOURCE: Gallery Delaive
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