Kazuki Umezawa “Empty god CORE”

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B2OA presents “Empty god CORE”, a solo exhibition of new works by Japanese artist Kazuki Umezawa. This marks the artist’s first solo show in the United States.

Umezawa’s playful imagery is sourced from the web, anime characters, and other characters the artist views as deities. His chromatic collages produce a kaleidoscopic sense of an apocalyptic terrain with variegated scenarios for his characters to prevail within. The works are a precarious combination of digital, hand-collaged, and painted elements that fuse the application of imagery as mark-making. Umezawa has worked collaboratively with AR3Bros. (Tokyo) art collective and is a member of The Chaos Lounge (Tokyo), a young art collective that has also attracted the attention of Takashi Murakami.

“I collect images of characters that I am fond of on the Internet to create paintings by disassembling them and reconstructing them in new ways. For me, characters are small gods. This is probably a sensation that is connected to the fact that the concept of multitudinous gods has existed since antiquity in Japan. I feel love for the ephemeral images of those beautiful characters with vividly colored hair and eyes that are consumed and disappear on a daily basis.” — Kazuki Umezawa

Kazuki Umezawa [b. 1985, Saitama, Japan] lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. He received a B.A. in Film and Imaging Studies at Musashino Art University. Umezawa has exhibited at both private galleries and public institutions such as Diesel Denim Gallery, Tokyo, The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among others. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the 2009 and 2010 TOKYO WONDERWALL Award from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

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Schedule

from October 09, 2014 to November 15, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-10-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Kazuki Umezawa

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