AISHONANZUKA is please to announce a new exhibition “SPECTRUMS”, a three artists group exhibition by Jess Johnson, Oliver Payne and Taku Obata. The exhibition will be on view from 25 Jun to 16 Jul, 2022.
Jess Johnson
Born in New Zealand, lives and works in New Zealand and New York.
JESS JOHNSON is a New Zealand born artist whose artwork reflects ideologies of technology and flesh, both ancient and futuristic. Extending into installation, video, VR, and fashion, her fictional world is initially developed by hand through her drawings. She lives and works between New York and New Zealand. Johnson’s elaborate drawings works are characterized by their depictions of genderless humanoid figures from alternative realms, alien creatures with facial features reminiscent of bats, and worm-like tubes snaking across architectural structures from times unknown –luring viewers into a highly condensed illusion where elements that influenced her such as intercultural patterns and symbols, horror movies and science-fiction, and the world of early video games, integrate and coalesce.
Oliver Payne
Born in 1979 in England, lives and works in Los Angels, USA.
After studying at the Kingston University Faculty of Art and Design in England, Oliver Payne began working in collaboration with Nick Relph during the late 1990s, together creating video and installation work based on skating, hardcore music, punk, graffiti, and other street culture. He has had an extraordinarily bright career as a young artist, together with Relph winning the Golden Lion award in the young artist category at the 50th Annual Venice Biennale (2003) and having exhibited their collaborative work in solo exhibitions at Kunsthaus Zürich (2004) and at the Serpentine Gallery in London (2006). In Japan, they have showcased their work at Art Tower Mito (Lonely Planet exhibition, 2004) and at the Yokohama Triennale (2008). In 2009, Payne and Relph moved on to work separately as solo artists, and Payne has since been creating work mainly around the subject of Japanese subcultures.
Taku Obata
Born in 1980 in Japan, lives and works in Japan.
The work of Taku Obata revolves around the body in motion, notably in breakdance. Deeply connected to B-Boy culture in Japan, Obata captures, exaggerates and deforms the human body in dancing movement, emphasizing the bodies’ shapes, poses, and physiques, while eliminating the emotional or inner elements of the figures. His persistent interest in the body is also reflected in the medium he chooses — wood sculpture. By linking this physically demanding and time-consuming Japanese traditional technique with the modernity of his subject that emanates from vibrant hip-hop culture, Obata embodies a dynamic decomposition of body and movement within a broader cultural context.
AISHONANZUKA榮幸呈獻群展《光譜》，由Jess Johnson、Oliver Payne及Taku Obata三人共同展出新作，展示在現今的多元世代下，三位不同文化背景的藝術家對身體、科技、及自然所描繪的圖景。展覽將由2022年6月25日展出至7月16日。
傑斯·約翰遜（Jess Johnson）
出生於紐西蘭，現常駐於紐西蘭及紐約。
傑斯·約翰遜是一位紐西蘭藝術家，其作品從古代文明和未來主義兩個方向出發探討有關科技和肉身的意識形態。最初她於繪畫作品中創建其虛構世界，而現在已經擴展到立體裝置、影片、虛擬現實和時尚等多個層面。她來回於紐約和新西蘭之間生活和工作。約翰遜細緻而充滿個人風格的素描作品描繪了來自不同領域的無性別人形角色；其面部特徵讓人聯想到類似蝙蝠的外星生物，以及從未知的時空中蜿蜒穿過建築結構的蠕蟲狀管子——她引誘着觀眾一同進入一個高度壓縮的幻覺世界，並把在她生命出產生影響的元素，如跨文化模式和符號、恐怖電影和科幻小說、以及早期的電子遊戲世界等融合在畫布之上。
奥利弗·佩恩（Oliver Payne）
1979年出生於英國，現生活及工作於美國洛杉磯。
在英國金斯頓大學藝術與設計學院完成學習後，佩恩在九十年代後期開始與尼克·雷爾夫（Nick Relph）合作，共同創作基於滑冰、硬核音樂、朋克、塗鴉和其他街頭文化的影片和裝置作品。 作為一名年輕藝術家，他有着非凡的職業生涯：於2003年與雷爾夫在第五十屆威尼斯雙年展中獲得年輕藝術家類別的金獅獎、並分別於2004年及2006年在享譽全球的蘇黎世美術館和倫敦蛇形畫廊的個展中展出了他們的合作作品。 在日本，他們曾在水户藝術館（「孤獨星球」展覽，2004）和橫濱三年展（2008）等大型展覽上展示了他們的作品。2009年起，佩恩和雷爾夫開始以個人藝術家的身份分開創作，此後佩恩一直主要圍繞日本亞文化為主題創作作品。
小畑多丘（Taku Obata）
1980年出生於日本，現在於日本生活和工作。
小畑多丘的作品圍繞著身體的運動姿態開展，尤其以霹靂舞為主。 由於其經歷與日本的 B-Boy 文化密切相關，小畑在舞蹈動作中捕捉、誇大和變形人體，強調身體的形狀、姿勢和體格，同時消除人物的情感或內在元素。他對身體的執著也體現於他選擇的媒介——木雕。他的作品將木雕這種耗費體力和時間的日本傳統技術與充滿現代性的活潑嘻哈文化聯繫起來，小畑體現了在更廣泛的文化背景下對身體和運動的動態分解。
