Young people who met on the internet, sealed themselves up in their vehicles, lit the heater units, and were asphyxiated. In the year 2005, there were over 500 planned suicides thus. At first glance, the figures appear identical, like crash dummies, but upon further inspection, they are each distinct: their features are drawn with different computer symbols. In Japan, 2005 he presents a computer-generated line drawing of a multitude of identical mini-vans, sealed with masking tape, each carrying six seated figures and three traditional Japanese coal-burning heaters. Nothing to Lose, a mural-size watercolor painting on paper, features his signature “Rice-Ball Man” smiling as he straddles a Japanese fish-ball en route through an intestinal track on waves of excrement heading out of the body. In his first one-person exhibition in New York, Makoto has mounted a compelling array of new works. He has been invited to participate in the Singapore Biennial later this year. In 2003, he was featured in Larry Rinder’s show “The American Effect” at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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in San Francisco at Lisa Dent Gallery and presented Donki-Hôte at Ibid Projects in London. In 2005, he had his first solo exhibition in the U.S. Although best known within the Japanese art scene, he has begun to expand his audience to Europe and the US. He disdains the slick, corporate ideology of Murakami’s Kaikai-Kiki talent agency he succeeds to create a more individualistic and socially engaging art form. Makoto Aida is a provocateur, a prankster, a radical.
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On view will be six new pieces including drawing, painting, and photography. Courtesy: Mizuma Art Gallery.Andrew Roth is pleased to present new works by Makoto Aida. Four-panel folding screens / enamel, vinyl tablecloth on fusuma (sliding door), hinges 178.4 × 272.4 cm Private collection. Main Image: Aida Makoto, No One Knows the Title (War Picture Returns) 1996. If you like unique exhibits and controversial subject matter, this could be a good chance to view and discuss those images, and think outside the box.
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The artist has been updating his Facebook page with all the steps leading to the exhibit, so it’s worth taking a look. There is sexually explicit content in a designated room suited for visitors over the age of 18. The exhibition will look back on Aida’s career and feature his most well known work, such as the large painting of naked girls in a huge bloody blender. Some of his most famous work depicts uniform-clad school girls plunging samurai swords into their stomachs, disemboweling themselves, and slicing off their own heads, in order to represent the dark state of Japanese society back in the nineties.Īida’s most provocative work includes a painting the firebombing of New York by Japanese airplanes and videoing himself performing auto-erotic activities.
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Japanese mineral pigment, acrylic on Japanese paper mounted on panel 73 x 52 cm Collection: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi. Aida Makoto AZEMICHI (a path between rice fields) 1991.