Stepping Back To Seek The Underneath
by Yamaguchi Akira
2015
144 pages
30 x 22.5 x 1.4 cm
Paperback

Published in conjunction with an eponymous solo exhibition of modern Japanese artist Yamaguchi Akira, this catalogue reproduces numerous artworks done in the painting style for which he is best known. His fusion of contemporary oil painting techniques with Yamato-e, a traditional Japanese composition style, leads to sometimes surreal scenes that transcend time and place, wherein a blend of fantasy and reality, tradition and modernity, coexist. Also included are many installation views in which the artist himself moves around the exhibition space following a specific route, which in fact dictates the layout of the book. With essays by Hashimoto Mari and Asai Toshihiro.

Published by Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc

YAMAGUCHI AKIRA

Yamaguchi Akira (b. 1969, Tokyo, Japan) graduated in 1996 with a M.A in Oil Painting and in 1994, a B.A. in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan. Some of his solo exhibitions include Muromachi Resonance, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2016), Matsuyama Shift, The Museum of Art, Ehime Prefacture, Japan (2016), YAMAGUCHI Akira: Stepping Back to Seek the Underneath, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, Japan (2015) and SINGA-PLANET, Japan Creative Center, Singapore (2011). He engaged in numerous group exhibitions in Japan and the United States. He was also awarded with a runner-up prize for the 4th Taro Okamoto Memorial Award of Celebration in 2013 and 2001 respectively. His artworks are in the collection of  Narita International Airport, Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, Museum of Modern Art Shiga, Shiga, Japan, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia amongst many others. Yamaguchi Akira lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.