comunicarearte: NIPPOSUGGESTIONI, east and west relations in art: Kawaiizzazioni (to makes it kawaii)

giovedì 10 novembre 2011

Kawaiizzazioni (to makes it kawaii)

Tomoko and her Kawaiizzazioni technique:
digital art and vectorial art, painting, technique and variable sizes from A3 to 100x70 cm
A series of 20 tables and about 10 paintings KAWAIZZANO (make kawaii) brand, works of art and avant-pop icons, i mean POP massive culture, imaginations or world-famous.

Enfanta Margarita, Kitty, Coke: as 3 of the global strong icons

As in the artwork of David and Goliath, or that one with the last meal (Emmaus), or Bacchus (with Nutella) as well Judith and Olophernes (above), Tomoko takes Caravaggio, another KAWAIIZATED subject is the famous "Enfanta Margarita de Las Meninas by Velazquez, mixed up of the bags of "Zara " or other main massive brand ...

Again with" Venus of Pasta "by Titian's Venus (which has influenced the work of Maja desnuda by Goya), however, we can find " pilov" of " Hello Kitty"with venus or "maja" that rest in packages of pasta and she looks like are an icon of consume enjoyable mass product of european and Japanese, imagination of global economy.

Venus of Pasta (vectorial art version)

Venus of Pasta (with Kitty) Oil painting version

Other global brands like NUTELLA, Coke, Kikkomann, Nissin cup noodles, playstation psp, Smart car etc... are reinterpreted and made cool and kawaii, becoming subject of the "palette" creative of Tomoko.

kitty and Coke, artwork donate for Sanrio Foundation (project sanrio For Smiles)

www.tomokonagao.info

Typically in an artistic Micropop style, artists (mainly womens) makes repossess a massive icons, massive brand cultures in order to make them "own" and use them as a display of "your" imagination instead of fancy reset operation and diversity of the brands that tend to engage in mass consumption.

An "allegory" superflat of the era of globalization, told with its symbols and its products.

>> For example, now, this is a work painting by Tomoko Nagao, one of the newest. I consider it as his point of arrival (developed from digital vectorial artworks) and a meaningful image to criticize subtly but effectively the current globalized era, the economy of the maddened virtual markets:

Narcissus (The Capital?) reflects, with SCRAPED knees. He is reflected in the iconography of the work of Caravaggio as a puddle. is reflected with the Coca-Cola, will become sad because maybe transform in a massive Brand (as in the flower that will effectively transformed).

Chris Gangitano

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EDOPOP & FLOATINGpop reports

EDOPOP & FLOATINGpop reports JapanPOP, FLOATING POP A curatorial project by Christian Gancitano, in collaboration with Deodato Arte Here is the concept history starting from FLOATING WORLD from which we extrapolate the development of our research of the relationship between East and West relations in pop arts: FLOATING POP (japanese pop art), take a look to Asia as an emerging power and already dominant on the worldwide's imaginary of fashion, comics, design, as an art influencer, one of more active cultural player, economy development, not only japan therefore, that despite everything, it was the first Asian power, democracy westernized. With this "Japan POP art show" an innovative artist combination, we will keep the guidelines of “edo pop”, an art project that i am still forwarding since 2004, it was already started my researching about japanese pop arts since Edo period till the latest artistic trend, taking a look to expanded relationship in art between Eastern and Western pop cultures, massive consumption, advertising and communication. Ukiyo (浮世 "Floating World") Described the urban lifestyle, Especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo-period in Japan (1600-1867 Tokugawa period). The "Floating World" culture developed in Yoshiwara, the licensed red-light district of Edo town (modern Tokyo), which was the site of many brothels, chashitsu tea houses, and kabuki theaters frequented by Japan's growing middle class. The ukiyo cultures arose also in other cities Such as Osaka and Kyoto and coming out, beginning of the last century, in Paris . Here began the first real pop art, is the famous Japanese's woodblock prints well known as ukiyo-e, or "pictures of the Floating World," In These districts, already more than 4 century ago, had began their origins the japanese's pop cultures, first in the world affordable art, often depicted scenes of the Floating World itself, such as geisha, kabuki actors, sumo wrestlers, samurai, chonin and prostitutes that was same of contemporary pop stars and massive brand icons . In fact, FLOATING POP is still a worldwide important TREND TODAY: the newest artist, son of this culture, represent mass consumption, leisure and entertainment globalized using a universal language "POP", this was already among the oriental and western culture, sign of begin of today's global marketplace.

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giovedì 10 novembre 2011

Kawaiizzazioni (to makes it kawaii)

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