Rising Tokyo artist's 'psychic tsunami'
There’s no denying the similarities between the scenes of devastation in Japan’s Tohoku region that followed the earthquake March 11 and the art of Mikiko Kumazawa.Just like the tsunami that struck that day and which threw buildings together and left vast areas littered with the bric-a-brac of everyday life, Kumazawa’s pictures also bring together the familiar elements and detritus that make up the dense texture of life in Japan in surreal and chaotic amalgams.
The main difference is that the young artist’s pictorial tsunami are full of life, wit and comment on various aspects of everyday existence in Japan.
Kumazawa, 28, creates her potent images with disarmingly humble methods -- namely, the simple pencil on expansive paper panels. But less is more, as the diminutive artist revealed when she spoke to CNNGo recently at the Mizuma Gallery in downtown Tokyo.
Surreal mash-ups“I like using pencil because I don’t really understand what colors will look good in different places,” she humbly explains. “I just can’t manage to put everything together and have a good balance when I’m using color.”
Pencil enables her to get precision, accuracy and a sense of reality into her work -- something that makes her surrealist mash-ups all the more convincing and believable in the same way that dreams are believable at the moment they are happening.
In “Erosion,” a work that was shown recently at the Zipangu group exhibition in Tokyo, sailor-suited high school girls are shown liberally sprinkled into a heaving mass of objects that we are unable to take in all at once.
As our eye roves over the finely detailed surface of this sprawling work, we pick out such objects as a graffiti-covered post box, a broken traffic cone, a teddy bear and a condom vending machine.
The name of the piece, “Erosion,” is a pun on "eros" and refers to the loss of innocence of high school girls through such phenomena as enjo-kosai (compensated dating).
“In our society, schoolgirls are the most exploited individuals,” the artist says, unwittingly sounding like a radical feminist, something she is quick to deny.
“I often feature women in my art simply because I’m one and I use my friends as models. When I was drawing this work I was in a very low mood, thinking about all the meanness in the world. The girls, becoming adults by losing their purity became an expression of that.
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As our eye roves over the finely detailed surface of this sprawling work, we pick out such objects as a graffiti-covered post box, a broken traffic cone, a teddy bear and a condom vending machine. 'Erosion' -- sailor-suited high school girls liberally
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