NYAB Event - Masaki Asakawa Exhibition

Masaki Asakawa Exhibition

Onishi Gallery

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Onishi Gallery presents Masaki Asakawa’s solo show “col­ors com­plex.” Asakawa chose to explore the theme of a mass con­sump­tion soci­ety after feel­ing the effect of its insta­bil­ity and uneasi­ness in his own life. Through recon­struct­ing the auto­mo­bile, which he views as “the sym­bol of the mass con­sump­tion soci­ety,” via pho­to­col­lage, Asakawa hopes to present view­ers with a re-imagining of con­tem­po­rary society.

"The auto­mo­bile dec­o­rated with the beau­ti­ful plas­tic forms by using freely the lat­est tech­nol­ogy has the ‘pos­i­tive’ aspect which is the crys­tal­liza­tion of the human beings’ wis­dom,” Asakawa explains, “but, at the same time, it has the ‘neg­a­tive’ aspect which causes a seri­ous prob­lem for the sus­tain­abil­ity of the society.

Born in 1963 in Tokyo, Japan, Asakawa grad­u­ated from the Tokyo National Uni­ver­sity of Fine Arts and Music in 1988. Today he is a pro­fes­sor at the Yoko­hama Col­lege of Art and Design. His work has been shown in Tokyo, Kyoto, New York and Milan and has been awarded the Grand prix dur­ing the Esquire Dig­i­tal Pho­to­graph Awards for 2004 to 2005.

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