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kira imai gekkou shoujo
4 December 2012 | alice, art, book | 2 comments
just come out – i could be wrong but i believe this is the first bone-fide book collection of kira imai artworks – includes 27 works from the past couple of years – published by parabolica bis, she has an exhibition at their gallery right now (i haven’t been yet…)
this one very much my favourite – reminds me a lot of the chapman brother “zygotic acceleration” – coincidence i’m sure – altho she has some liking of my art (to a certain degree?), i can’t imagine her poring over les oeuvres de jake et dino chapman for inspiration
tea with tama
21 November 2012 | art, book | 4 comments
went to tama‘s exhibition at vanilla gallery yesterday – “lost garden” – there’s a new book to coincide – i think her best yet – inevitably akatako already have the book for pre-order
related posts:
book three
book two
book one
oh takato, thou art morbid
18 October 2012 | art, book | 5 comments
went to the new “necrophantasmagoria” takato yamamoto exhibition and picked up his new book warm off the press – as always with editions treville there’s a signed/numbered special limited version (500 copies) alongside the regular edition – this has a much nicer black cover with silver edged pages – content the same – there’s only 21 new works offered and six older works reprinted – each is accompanied by a commentary (in japanese and english) – and the pencil preliminary drawing, identical to the paintings except in line – very fine, good to see at the exhibition, tho it would have been gooder (more interesting) to see earlier rougher pencil drawings – i guess a fan-pleaser despite the relative lack of new work* – akatako and timeless have it available for pre-order
* he’s been busy doing oil paintings i believe – i haven’t seen but my wife says they’re incredible
related posts:
coffin of a chimera
rib of a hermaphrodite
happy birthday happy birthday
14 August 2012 | art, bedtime stories | 8 comments
there’s an inherent snag in telling both your parents and your sister what you want for your birthday – the idea was to avoid getting sent boring socks or summink i don’t want – but the actual result was i got sent summink i don’t want! (it must be the rule of birthdays?!) – i now have two copies of jake chapman’s introspastic! – i’ll probably give the extra copy to someone unsuspecting (who also won’t want it)
Jake Chapman’s latest novel has it all: love, loss, introspective nihilism plus breakdancing squirrels. Any reader seeking true insight into the fraternal bond at the heart of the Chapman’s misunderstood work will find this book a massively insincere obstacle.
underground illustration’s vol.02
13 July 2012 | art, book, tb | 5 comments
out now! – another artism compilation of “underground” artists with a gurokawaii inclination – my favorites this time (besides of course lostfish and trevor brown) are tsukiurabeya grishare, hiroyuki takahashi and hanamushi enu – 80 pages full color – inexpensive 1000 yen asking price – available here (more expensive 2500 yen asking price)
