After five years of work dedicated to the promotion and spreading of new trends in international figurative art, by always focusing on pure Pop Surrealism and on the big stars of the overseas movement, Dorothy Circus Gallery is proud to announce the first European exhibition by the Japanese Kazuki Takamatsu and the Korean artist Kwon Kyungyup. The long-awaited new body of works titled “Because I’m a Doll” by Kazuki Takamatsu, which has a large waiting list of collectors, turns out all the contents and iconography of an exquisitely oriental erotism, linked to power of nature, the manga culture and hi-tech development. Takamatsu is the author of a sense of melancholy which carries the memory of Hiroshima and Fukushima, pervaded by the loss of hope of the young suicides. The artist evokes ghosts of light which come to guide us through the immense sacredness of soul’s forests, bringing us towards a newfound beauty and peace. Kazuki Takamatsu’s artworks are made with a meticulous 3D technique called distanfeerism, a mix of gouache and modern tecnique of depth-mapping. The artist’s black and white Dolls, born in a digital study, take their shape through the infinite declinations of whites and grays in order to reemerge from an abyssal deepness X-ray lighted with a “digital make up” effect.
Echos of hospitalization, in Kwon Kyungyup’s brand new series “White Elegy”; in the white bandages that cover and reveal inhuman and immaculate beings, as mirrors of unassailable world of sensuality, duality and emotional imprisonment, as if the body is merely a storage for deep memories of pain, loss, and trauma. Kwon’s portrait paintings portrary naive angels with wounded pasts.
Her characters with white hair and transparent skin seem marble sculptures or perfect and smoothly glowing porcelain dolls. In their wounded beauty, the white melancholy of flowers losing colours is found and suggests a sense of softness which embodies the idea of eternity. For this important Italian exhibition there will be 8 brand new artworks by each artist, 16 masterpieces for which a lot of collectors from all around the world will come with great excitement and will be attending to the opening on June 13th 2013.
Her characters with white hair and transparent skin seem marble sculptures or perfect and smoothly glowing porcelain dolls. In their wounded beauty, the white melancholy of flowers losing colours is found and suggests a sense of softness which embodies the idea of eternity. For this important Italian exhibition there will be 8 brand new artworks by each artist, 16 masterpieces for which a lot of collectors from all around the world will come with great excitement and will be attending to the opening on June 13th 2013.
Thirty-four-year-old Takamatsu was born and lives in Japan, known as much for its picturesque landscapes as its high rate of suicide, a duality that contributes to the beautiful sadness that permeates his work. Takamatsu’s depth-mapping technique is as unique as it is painstakingly intricate, fusing classic drawing, airbrush and gouache painting with computer graphics. “White and black metaphorically express the ambiguity of positive and negative, good and evil, race and religion,” he writes. “By combining modern digital CG materials with analog materials, I am trying to document the emotions that young boys and girls feel towards modern systemized society… and the congruence of humans and digital society.”
