martedì 15 novembre 2011

浮世絵 Ukiyo-e, l’estetica del mondo fluttuante, as a contemporary value

浮世絵

L’estetica “ del mondo fluttuante” viene introdotta durante il periodo EDO (1600-1868), dominato dallo shogunato dei TOKUGAWA.

Questa tecnica artistica divenne molto popolare a Edo durante la seconda metà del XVII secolo

a partire dalle opere monocromatiche di Hishikawa Moronobu (ca. 1670).

All'inizio, si utilizzava soltanto inchiostro cinese,

in seguito alcune stampe vennero colorate a mano con dei pennelli, ma nel XVIII secolo Suzuki Harunobu sviluppò la tecnica della stampa policromatica per produrre nishiki-e.

UNA CULTURA DI MASSA: albori di un arte POP (e non della pop art)

Gli Ukiyo-e non erano costosi perché erano prodotti in massa ed erano pensati principalmente per gli abitanti della città che non potevano permettersi dei veri dipinti. Alle origini, il soggetto principale degli Ukiyo-e era la vita della città, in particolare le attività e le scene dei quartieri dei divertimenti:

belle cortigiane, grossi lottatori di sumo e attori famosi erano ritratti mentre svolgevano il loro lavoro. In seguito divennero popolari anche i paesaggi, mentre non apparvero quasi mai soggetti politici e di altre classi sociali all'infuori di quelle più basse (composte appunto da cortigiane, lottatori di sumo e attori).

Il sesso non era un vero e proprio tema a sé, anche se comparve spesso in queste stampe.

Gli artisti e gli editori erano talvolta sottoposti a sanzioni per queste stampe sessualmente esplicite, dette shunga.

La bellezza femminile UKIYO-E, nel passato e oggi: ritratti BIJINGA (bijinga portraicts and the feminine beautyness, in the past and now)

美人畫

(Bijinga lit., "beautiful person picture") is a generic term for pictures of beautiful women in Japanese art, especially in woodblock printing of the ukiyo-e genre, which predate photography.

The term can also be used for modern media, provided the image conforms to a somewhat classic representation of a woman, usually depicted wearing kimono.

Nearly all ukiyo-e artists produced bijinga, it being one of the central themes of the genre. However, a few, including Utamaro, Suzuki Harunobu, Ito Shinsui, Toyohara Chikanobu and Torii Kiyonaga, are widely regarded as the greatest innovators and masters of the form.

北斎漫画

"Hokusai's Sketches” is a collection of scketches of various subjects by the Japanese artist Hokusai.

Subjects of the sketches include landscapes, flora and fauna, everyday life and the supernatural. The word manga in the title does not refer to the contemporary story-telling manga, as the sketches in the work are not connected to each other. Block-printed in three colours (black, gray and pale flesh), the Manga comprise literally thousands of images in 15 volumes, the first published in 1814, when the artist was 55.

Chris Gangitano

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

martedì 25 ottobre 2011

a "visionary" preview by Hokusai: Tsunami

pubblicata da Christian Gangitano il giorno martedì 25 ottobre 2011 alle ore 13.19

Hokusai Operates a "visionary" preview by the famous print that represents the great wave (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura) of the tsunami, and many waves of ocean's subject as work and a philosophy that already announced a difficult relationship but admiration and awareness of the nature "friend - enemy" and its KAMI, his forces that influenced the japanese's sensitive creative, as well his poetry, fables, arts.

The aesthetics of floating "ukiyoe" (浮世絵), was in fact the first real example of pre-industrial cultures on the artistic currents of the first 900 (Impressionists, Van Gogh etc ...) and the European avant-garde movements. An important advance of mass pop culture.

(神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura)

Today an independent again and fascinating japan's style has spread rapidly around the world through Manga and Anime (by Osamu Tezuka, Hayao Miyazaki, Otomo, goes on ...), through the small literature and cinema, and also through the poetic Otaku Superflat (raised by Murakami Takashi Nara Yoshimoto, etc ...) continuing with the currents and variations Micropop expressions of Pixel Multimedia Generation of Japanese young artists, are still exploring nature mystery and human deep relations with nature happens and nature feeling ...

　富嶽百景　海上の不ニ

Katsushika Hokusai

giovedì 8 settembre 2011

what on new of art, micropop, pixel generation of youth japanese's "bad girls"

whats on new about art, micropop, pixel generation of the youth japanese's "bad girls". From the problems of contemporary adolescence pixel generation (Akane Koide, Rei Sato, Mahomi Kunikata, Makiko Kudo, Keiko Mori etc...) to the identity Micropop as global and critical mass of consumerism (the generation that Nara and Murakami was the teacher, as example Tomoko Nagao -here in italy-, Cinatsu Ban, Ciho Ahoshima, Aya Takano (in USA, taiwan and Japan ... collected also by french's) the generation which has been tested and proven as a mainstream product (such as example is Hello Kity).


AYA TAKANO

TOMOKO NAGAO: FUWARI -unflatable sculpture-

I'm trying to make people understand or even to understand the phenomenon to the industry.
Movement "micropop" here in Italy, I'm trying to make it known through the arts and social networks, unfortunately it is a slow path, only the young give me satisfaction. Obviously young people in Italy do not have a purchasing power.

Rei Sato

Ciho Ahoshima

I was already organize in Milan the first preview exhibition "micropop & nipposugegstioni" as presentation of such awesome arts scene, and where come from as culture suggestions and influence.

For example, the exhibition "Winter Garden" was produced in 2009 under the curation of art critic Midori Matsui as a sequel to the exhibition The Door into Summer (Art Tower Mito, Japan, 2007). Winter Garden features 35 works—drawings, paintings, and video works — by 14 young Japanese artists active from the latter half of the 1990s throughout the first decade of the 21st century. The artists present their distinctive views of world through the combination of fragments, imbuing the obsolete or the commonplace with new functions or meaning, a style of _expression that Matsui dubbed “Micropop.”

Aya Takano

Keiko Moritsugu

Mahomi Kunikata

Akane Koide

Today, many artists' MICROPOP "bad girls "were understood by KAIKAIKIKI or Art galleries French (or collectors, owners of big brands) and New York. They had a chance to explain and express themselves. a good thing but often runs the risk of endangering the fragile sensitivity, psychological expectations of these young Japanese artists.

A generations after OTAKU, across AKIKOMORI subjectivity, a pixelated generations of the new internet global era.
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new future-present asian domain culture is coming soon

As many facebook friends already know, I am working for events of "premium brand" company, featuring art, culture and theater by artists in unconventional or historycal locations throughout the city of Milan.

untill today, i created projects for high profile scenic and experiential events designed to exploit excellence in the art, culture and theater world for the benefit of corporate clients

from 2000 till NOW I am also working deeply for culture, my aims is demonstrate the connection of new japanese pop cultures and global new arts and the connection with western's art (old and new).

i am interested now to show the new tendencies of japanese art, such as visuals, photos, performing arts and more expression languages.

I think that work and visual language of many japanese and asian artist is NOW (particular history moment) very important for the imagination of the new youth generation of artist and creative, in italy and europe.

I think that european must know well the new future-present asian domain culture is coming soon and very fast here, still many people doesn't know it.

Culture and arts are the best way for make it know us.

as well, for my culture aims (western and eastern relations in art) is important and welcome the support, ideas, suggestions of culture people.

thank you, grazie.

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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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