A must-see artist's charm in 3 minutes!

A quick look at "Melody Shimizu," an artist who pokes fun at contemporary social issues through glitchy expressions.

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Artist Characteristics

An artist who constructs the effect of objectifying the subject through noise

• Aims to reproduce in paintings the glitches that are often found on VHS tapes.
• What it creates is a slower, more objective view of things
• He is familiar with video expression and works to re-localize this experience in painting.

Takashimaya Ohisa

• W 25.00cm x H 33.50cm x D 1.50cm
• #painting #oil painting
• 40,000 yen + tax (44,000 yen including tax)

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Uniqueness

Ascetic colors and violently deformed figures

• Soothing colors reminiscent of a black-and-white film
• He incorporates elements of historical paintings into his own style.
• The seemingly mysterious subject matter gradually begins to reveal the context in which it is located.

Summer Kiss

• W 38.00cm x H 45.50cm x D 2.00cm
• #painting #oil painting
• 80,000 yen + tax (88,000 yen including tax)

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Curator's Comment

An artist who maintains a style of expression while maintaining an awareness of contemporary issues

• Critical of various subjects such as the history of painting and religion
• The work invites the viewer to question fundamentally what the essence of "things" is.
• The medium of paint itself may already be noise.

Edobe

• W 53.00cm x H 80.30cm x D 2.50cm
• #painting #oil painting
• 150,000 + tax (165,000 yen including tax)

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Artist Biography

Born in Tokyo, 1976.
Has been working as a visual artist for advertisements and music videos since 2001.
Resumed activities as an artist in 2018.

Artist Comments.
Paint is noise that prevents reproduction.
Even if you paint with it, the artist's consciousness and habits are too much involved to fix the image on the canvas, and it is much less accurate than documentaries in photographic or video media. In other words, what is painted with paint is fiction and should be questioned.
Paintings that urge us to doubt, rethink, and contemplate may be telling even me, the artist, not to believe in them.

Solo Exhibitions
2022 COUNT DOWN, haco - art brewing gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2020 GLITCH, Ligna Terrace Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibitions
2022 IAG Artists Selection 2022 Ikebukuro Kaiyuha Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
2022 IAG Artists Small Works Exhibition, Jiyuugakuen Asutomu-kan, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Independents Tokyo 2021, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center, Tokyo, Japan
And many other exhibitions

Click here for Ryo Shimizu's artist page

TRiCERA ART currently lists about 52,000 works of art including paintings, photographs, and sculptures from more than 126 countries around the world.