Art SPY
20-05-2008
Welcome to this week’s Art SPY
‘Art SPY’ brings you a selection of various Artists and Galleries that we find simply delightful!
This week Art SPY previews a selection of artists all unique in their own way and all representing a fresh approach to the Art world.
Have you ever looked at a picture form an artist and felt moved by the colours and overall style and mood of the picture? Can certain images conjure up feelings, which make you feel happy? I believe they can! The artist I am about to discribe, is a true genius, she works in the most amazing ways.
I was struck by the way in which this artist uses colour and shape. It was, to me, the most amazing display of artwork that I had seen in a long time – I was so enthralled when I saw her work that I started talking to the people on the tube about it, to which they grunted back at me, I eagerly jotted down the name of this artist ‘Chiho Aoshima’
All of her painting are done on a Macintosh G4, she has never picked up a paintbrush physically it’s all done on the MAC
“From the very beginning, my work process has been purely digital rather than handmade.”
I could instantly tell that this had to be a Japanese artist…I have a fascination with anything Japanese and I find their style of drawing totally unique and distinguishable. They have mastered a style that we here in the West do not have.
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Background information
Chiho Aoshima (Chiho Aoshima) born 1974, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese pop artist and member of Takashi Murakami’s Kaikai Kiki Collective. Aoshima graduated from Department of Economics, Hosei University, Tokyo. She had a residency at Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas in 2006.
Debuting in the art scene with no formal art training, Chiho Aoshima’s work transcends traditional techniques of representation. Aoshima uses computer software to create beautiful and erotic worlds of ghosts, demons, schoolgirls, and exquisite natural landscapes.
She constructs her works with such elements as bodily fluids, reptiles, insects, and old, concrete buildings. Her works are audaciously enlarged and printed by heavy-duty printers, not only onto papers but also onto leather and plastic surfaces , giving her works the sense of transcendence of both art and illustration.
“My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialize,” Aoshima states.
Aoshima’s work has garnered international renown with a number of high profile projects. She collaborated with Issey Miyake in 2003, with her artwork featured in the spring/summer collection.
In 2004, she was invited to participate in the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, where she unveiled her largest wallpaper piece to date, measuring 106 feet (32.5m ) in length by 15 feet (4.8m ) in height.
In May 2005, as part of the Little Boy project, her ecologically-themed “City Glow” and “Paradise” series covered ad spaces throughout the Union Square subway station in New York, greeting commuters as they passed. This was repeated in Gloucester
Road tube station in London in 2006.
Other work by Chiho…
Contact Deatils:
http://www.chihoaoshima.com/index.htm
Vanessa Camelia
