The Birth of Rebirth
by Ikeda Manabu
2017
printed in Japan
208 Pages
19 x 13 x 1.5 cm

Three years in the making in the United States, Manabu Ikedas work Rebirth travelled across the ocean two months after its completion for its Japanese unveiling, drawing thousands of visitors to his birthplace of Saga, following which it was shown at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa. Despite being overwhelmed by the frenzied media coverage and interviews, Ikeda witnessed first-hand the impact the work had on people. In this book he takes time to reflect anew on the circumstances that gave rise to Rebirth, not least the unprecedented devastation caused by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which occurred at the start of his US residency.

Published by Seigensha Art Publishing, Inc.

IKEDA MANABU

Ikeda Manabu (b. 1973, Saga, Japan) graduated in 1998 with a B.F.A. In Design and in 2000, a M.F.A both from the Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo Japan. Some of his solo exhibition includes, Rebirth, Mizuma Art Gallery (2017), IKEDA Manabu The Pen –Condensed Universe, Saga Prefectural Museum (2017), Ikeda Masterwork unveiling, Chazen Museum of Art, Wisconsin, USA (2017), and Meltdown, West Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada (2013). He has been in many group exhibitions in both Japan and internationally such as, France, Russia, Germany, Canada, South Korea, and the United States. He has been awarded the 25th Takashimaya Art Award in 2014, the Great Prize for the 4th Hamamatsu Nationwide Public Exhibition of Painting in 2001, and Design Award for Graduation Project from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1998. His artworks are in the collection of Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, The Obuse Museum & The Nakajima Chinami Gallery, Nagano, Japan, and Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. Ikeda Manabu lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.