Aida Makoto: E-BAKA

6 May – 5 June 2010
Mizuma Art Gallry (Ichigaya Tamachi)


Ash Color Mountain (detail – work in progress)
2009 -, acrylic on canvas, 300x700cm.
©Aida Makoto, courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery

Mizuma Art Gallery’s first solo show at its new, more-spacious venue by the gallery artist who continues to unveil sensational works ranging in media from painting to video and sculpture. Aida produced the centerpiece of this show, depicting mountains of finely detailed, faceless salarymen and office equipment, during a six-month residency in Beijing from 2009. Ash Color Mountain marks his first major ‘group portrait’ since Blender (2001) (on display at the Takahashi Collection Hibiya through 8 August), depicting naked girls squashed in a giant blender. In contrast, other new works include a large-scale oil painting rendered in bold, vigorous brushstrokes and video play on a popular party game at Aida’s alma mater Tokyo University of the Arts Encounter of the Fat and the Slim with Ten-thousand Yen Bill Background (2007) is also displayed in a new format.

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