That’s the title of the survey of recent Japanese art currently on display at three separate galleries in the 798 district: Long March Space, Beijing-Tokyo Art Projectsand the new InterArt Center. There’s a lot to look at - doe-eyed aliens, polka-dotted spheres, toy trains, an inverted hello kitty doll, a 3 meter tall robot and an interactive graphic collage form the basis for just a few of the works on display. Several artists evince an air of foreboding (sinister half-woman half-wolf forms, baroquely outfitted Harajuku girls portrayed at a grandmotherly age, a cardboard box from which the voice of a man calls out “Hey! I am box…”), but the overall tone is one of optimism and play. Toy trains run wild generating a dynamic mural the height of the gallery walls. Children play among heaped piles of cute stuffed animals. Magnifying glasses offer a psychedelic view into Kusama Yayoi’s garden of red and white dotted spheres. A beautiful new world indeed.
Kaneuji Teppei, Teenage Fan Club #5, 2006
Exonemo, FragMental Storm, 2000
Kusama Yayoi, Guidepost to the New Space, 2004
Nishiyama Minako, Untitled, 2007
Shu and the talking box
Paramodel, Paramodelic-graffiti, 2007
Yanobe Kenji
Final Home
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Ryoji Ikeda
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