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Ayako Rokkaku: About Us
Opening Saturday May 15 @ 15:00h. at Gallery
Delaive, Amsterdam
It’s
just too simple to call the unique collaboration between the
Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku and
Kentarō Kawaguchi, front man of the world
famous band 54-71, ‘an animation film with Japanese pop music
and colorful figures’. With the realization of this unique
project the dream of Rokkaku becomes reality by means of one
of the most loved Japanese art form; the Anime. The
realization of this project has been made possible with the
expertise and creativity of leading figures in the Japanese
music world.
The
bright, painterly style with which Rokkaku paints her
adolescent girl figures remains intact in this animated film.
About Us, a story about a girl who connects the past
with the future, lacks a computer controlled graphical
perfection, which enables us to see a world not yet seen
before in Japanese Anime.
Paintings Ayako
Rokkaku
Music Makiko Naka
Script Kentarō
Kawaguchi
Direction/ animator Michinori “Mitch”
Saigo
During the opening on Saturday May 15 at Gallery
Delaive, Ayako Rokkaku will perform ‘live
painting’ on the cardboard house from the Anime About Us. In
addition, there will be 50 works on paper exhibited. These 50
works are ‘painted scenes’ from the animated movie. Rokkaku
painted these scenes on white LP sleeves, which also serve as
a DVD jacket for the limited dvd edition of 50.
SCOPE BASEL June 15-19, stand H53, Gallery
Delaive
Ayako Rokkaku returns to Switzerland,
SCOPE BASEL, with the Anime ‘About Us’
Kaikai Kiki, the company of the
renowned Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami launched the
Geisai art market to support cutting edge upcoming Japanese
artists. The young artist Ayako Rokkaku
(1982) won the Scout Prize at Geisai # 4 and the prestigious
Akio Goto Prize at Geisai # 9. Geisai invited high profile
industry experts such as Francois Pinault, owner of auction
house Christie's, and the architect Tadao Ando who both took
part of the panel of judges for the ninth edition of the art
market. Artist Yoshimoto Nara and David Ellis formed a jury
panel in earlier editions of Geisai. After the successful
participation of Rokkaku at Geisai in Japan, Murakami invited
the young artist to join him with Kaikai Kiki at the VOLTA02
show in Basel, here she met gallery owner Nico Delaive. Since
2006 Rokkaku had many successful exhibitions and has attracted
the eye of art collectors worldw ide. Rokkaku returns to BASEL
four years later, this time together with Nico Delaive and her
latest art project; an animated movie.
With
the realization of this project the dream of Rokkaku becomes
reality by means of one of the most loved Japanese art form;
the Anime. This unique project has been made possible
with the expertise and creativity of leading figures in the
Japanese music world as Kentarō Kawaguchi, front man of the
world famous band 54-71. The title of the movie is ‘About
Us’ and tells us a story about a girl who connects the
past with the future. The bright, painterly style with which
Rokkaku paints her adolescent girl figures remains intact in
the anime. ‘About Us’ lacks a computer controlled
graphical perfection and thus shows us a unique style, not yet
seen in Japanese Anime.
At SCOPE BASEL Rokakku will perform live on
Tuesday June 15 at booth number H53, Gallery Delaive.
For more information please contact Nico
Delaive or Marlies Bolhoven
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