KiSHiNO YUiCHi > LA VEUVE MOUSTACHUE LIVE IN HK FRIDAY MARCH 18 2011 (Click the image for more info)

Opening Performance of Mauvais Genre’s exhibition with ‘HANACALLICAMOTAYO’ Hanayo - Satoshi Yashiro - Keiichi Nakano 
iLIVETOMOROW march 3 2011 

MASARU AIKAWA

Born in 1978, graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo Japan

35 painted CD’s cover (acrylic on canvas), including tags, liner notes, and the surface of CD will be displayed during the show. The songs of each CD sung a cappella by Masaru can be heard on a CD player attached to the display.

Artist TIPS

    * I can not play any instruments.
    * There are many copy bands, but I am the best.
    * I love music more than pictures and sculptures.
    * I like hearing legends about the musicians.
    * When I am creating my work, I can be the musicians whom I respect and love.
    * I sometimes think that I am cool when I sing song ardently.
    * To choose CDs from my favorites, was difficult but fun.
    * I think the jackets of Heavy Metal CDs are cool.
    * I like “Megadeth” more than “Metallica”.
    * The good jacket has good songs on the CD.
    * I hate “Greatest Hits”.
    * I never buy songs from the “iTunes Music Store”.
    * A lot of illegally copied CDs are sold on the streets of Asia .
    * I am a Japanese, and a Japanese are good at mimicry.
    * I think “iPods” are useful.
    * I love the works of Andy Warhol.
    * I sympathize with “D.I.Y” mind of the punk / hard core.
    * It is possible to listen to my song only in the exhibition.
    * The works of CDs are duplications, but nevertheless are myself, and also my original work of art.
  

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KAWORI INBE

Born in Tokyo,1980. Kawori has been taking photographs since she was a University student. She presents her works through websites and magazines as well as participating in a plethora of exhibitions. “I present the internal world of women through the portrait. I seek thoughts and lives from general women by listening to their stories. I project what I have absorbed by taking inspiration from the core that builds them ; self-consciousness, complexity, despair, anger, pleasure and grief. I focus on personal matters, but their communities are our society. I see our society through the sentiments of women.” Kawori Inbe

KISHINO YUICHI
 La Veuve Moustachue: “Why Don’t we Just Be Friends” -video by Tabata Shizuko

Kishino Yuichi is an Actor, Musician and Writer.He calls himself a“studiest”, according to a broad array of activities. He performs in his own bands such as La Veuve Moustachue (The Mustached Widow) and WATTS TOWERS in Present. He teaches Film Music and Sound Design at the Tokyo University of the Arts (former name :Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music). As a musician, Kishino Yuichi’s career started in the early 1980s as part of the band Tokyo Towers. He then turned into the perfect “president” of the collective for unconventional musical studies K-Hin Bros. Co., Ltd. Around this core gravitated a whole bunch of projects and artists, from underground to famous ones. These projects, alongside his side activities as a musical critic for publications including Record Collector, Yuriika and Studio Voice, led to him becoming widely respected across the Tokyo scene and step by step developed his role as jolly network catalyst. He now runs the Out One Disc label, whose catalogue is both wildly open and strongly coherent. As a university professor, he specializes in musique concrete and use of music in cinema at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

MIMIYO TOMOZAWA

Mimiyo’s work is regularly featured in Japanese underground comics and magazines. Among her creations is the psychedelic ‘Kinoko Ryokou’ (‘Mushroom Travel’). She is also known for illustrating two Jim O’Rourke album sleeves (Eureka and Insignificance). In 1990, Mimiyo Tomozawa and Missa Fukuma formed a Spacy Folk group called RISU.

Matatabiabitatama

Special limited edition of 12 prints, illustrations for the book of Haruki Murakami “matatabiabitatama” published by bungeishunju in 2000.

Drawings and palindromes written in japanese were printed on two-page spread.

Texts written by  novelist Haruki Murakami.

HANAYO

The scenery that leaps out at us just  as we emerge from the womb or just as we are about to leave this world may have been something like this. Hanayo’s creations evoke such thoughts.

Hanayo’s photography, which is the focus of her art, depicts landscapes in which the axis of time is absent, like the memories of a dream that disappear as soon it ends. One moment Hanayo seems to be pressing the shutter at random on a daily basis. But then she will photograph “produced” situations, or won’t photograph anything, and in a world in which the abstract and the real, reality and unreality, the ordinary and the produced, the present and the past, the sacred and the vulgar. the beautiful and the ugly are reconciled, the subject, at times, loses its silhouette and is reduced to light. There are many different and attractive phenomena and events that form the elements that make up Hanayo’s world. These include excessive or insufficient light , scratched and discolored film or the chance encounters with various people including Tenko, Hanayo’s beloved daughter, and this world is naturally a part of the world that everyone else lives in. The phenomena that are Hanayo’s “photographs”, photographs created by these different elements, are as beautiful as an abstract painting or graffiti.

Hanayo who was involved in a variety of arts including music, photography and dance from an early age, began training in her teens to become a geisha and was also a singer. She attracted attention in 1996 with “Hanayome [bride]”, her first collection of photographs, as a photography artist. At the time, the “girly photo” boom was at its peak in Japan and because of her own past, Hanayo often attracted journalistic interest. However, around the time when photographers who were seen as “girly” photographers were beginning to avoid the label that they had been given and were starting to search for other subject matter, Hanayo’s work, perhaps because she had already moved to Germany in 1990.

Hanayo has also been creating installations using junk that she finds in Berlin or at the sites of her installations. Hanayo’s works, while gently stroking the thin film that lies between the sacred and the vulgar and the beautiful and the profane , re veal a nightmare-like flash of beauty.

Takashi Azumaya

KEN OYAMA: Danchi 

Born in 1972. Since 1996, Ken Oyama has been taking photographs of Danchi, a type of Japanese public apartment building. He works with 4 x 5 inch format. He has published 2 books, Visual Survey of Danchi and Mr.Danchi. He also participates in photo exhibitions and lectures and is also a television presenter. After his engineering magisterial thesis: Study of reutilization of dysfunctional industrial structure (2008), he frequently visits and takes photographs of factories in Japan. He also presents photography of civil engineering structures.

“For this exhibition, I sort the type of Danchi according to their shapes and appearences. Then I categorized the Danchi into 3 types for the exhibition.

The first group I call “Waffle”. As you can see, the grids that are equally spaced by pillars and beams look just like a waffle!

The second group is “Bend” according to the bent design of the buildings from a bird’s eye view.

The third is “Tower”. I selected Danchi which charactaristically share the design of “bump” on the top. The “bump” looks like a tower and contains an elevator system inside.” 

Invited Publisher: UTRECHT (Tokyo)