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What I'm trying to express in my art are my experiences which are like pain, pleasure, sadness, and impressed scene. And various cultures and ideologies are included. In addition, it was filled with the dirty part that is existed in a deep inner and the hidden other side. They are dismantled once, restructured, and represented by the big eyed punk nymphets, my Alter ego. Therefore, my art is always impulsive, private and is free. An imaginative extraordinary world is composed by the oil paints or uniting of different textures. Many junk elements collected from all over the world are mixed, and the color flood is like a chaotic contemporary society. You might find an answer in my art if you feel that you are restrained or restricted by something that you can't see, or if you are worried about something.
私が作品で表現しようとしている事...これまでに経験した痛み、喜び、悲しみ、及び感動。 さらに深い内面と反対側に存在する汚い部分で満たされます。それらは一度解体され再構築されて私の分身である大きな目のニンフにより代弁されます。 従って 私の作品は常に衝動的でありプライヴェートで自由です。 空想的な非日常世界は 油絵の具又は異なるテクスチャーの結合によって構成されます。 断片はミックスされ、色の洪水はまるで混沌とした現代社会のようです。 もしあなたが見えない何かによって束縛されるか 又は制限されているか 心配であるなら、私の作品に答えを見つけるかもしれません。
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山際マリ Mari Yamagiwa / Angie
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■略歴■
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| 〜1995 |
高校卒業後、広告代理店、設計事務所 勤務。 |
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| 1995〜2002 |
服飾デザイナー及びキルト作家として活動。セレクトショップでの販売やステージ衣装を手がける。
布コラ−ジュ作品が東京、横浜、名古屋、スイス等のショーやイベントに参加。
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| 2002〜2003 |
アート誌から掲載依頼を受け 絵画創作を始める。布と絵画作品双方が 国内グループ展に参加。
コラージュ作品では 布作品の名残りを残したまま 絵画創作活動へ徐々に移行。
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2004
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仙台で開催された企画個展「祈りの場景」でアーティスト活動開始。HP開設。
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| 2005 |
Angie名義の活動を開始。 |
| 2006〜 |
NewYorkのコマーシャルギャラリー"Monkdogz Urban Art"と専属契約。
現在 国内及び アメリカ、オランダ、オーストラリア、イギリス等で活動中。
2008年12月、NYで初の個展開催。 |
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Solo-Show"INSTINCT" Press Release
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If the integrity of an artist's work is judged by their courage and ability to tell the truth, then that is what you will find with Mari Yamagiwa. In Yamagiwa's work not only will you discover her truth, you may find that in this truth you uncover an interesting and seductive part of yourself. Her work rolls over you like a sudden thunder and lightning storm filled with primitive desire and beautiful imagination driven sexual imagery. Yamagiwa talks about the other part, the hidden part, "the dirty part", in describing her work. The truth of this statement is that we all have a little mud on our souls and it's the dirty part that keeps life interesting.
Her ability to incorporate both eastern and western influences only adds to the works' ability to transcend geography and create a very personal and private experience. One can only wonder at the chaos or clarity that drove this once innovative fashion designer into the art world. Suffice it to say the fashion world's loss was our gain.
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 -Ed McCormack September/October 2007
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Also very much in the Monkdogz bag, so to speak, are the bug-eyed Neo-Keane Kewpie babes of the Japanese painter Mari Yamagiwa / Angie, which transcend the "Lowbrow" label, as well as the "Supercute" genre so popular in her native country by virtue of their deliciously sleazy punk panache. Ignore the part of Yamagiwa / Angie's artist's statement where she goes on about "the value of all existence. Believe her when she states, in her inimitable English. "My works consists in the other side and a dirty part."
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 Grop show "Moriden" Press Release
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Mari Yamagiwa (Japan) Mari's work conceptualizes our dark and dirty secrets; the part that we all keep well hidden. It is a side that she is sure exists in all of us. She acknowledges the existence of different types of values and she is prepared to accept them all. Mari suggests that if you have any fears or worries that hold you back, you might find an answer to the problems in her multi-faceted, mixed media artwork.
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-Ed McCormack February/March 2007
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One of the featured artists is Mari Yamagiwa, whose curriculum vitae states that she was born in Kyoto Japan, and further informs us that she has "a tattoo of Phoenix and cross" and is "enjoying life with one husband, two children, one lizard, and one lover." Although her penchant for unconventional personal revelation harks back to the 1960s avant gardist Yayoi Kusama, Yamagiwa's work is more stylistically in tune with such Neo-Pop tendencies in youthful Japanese art as the "Super flat" and the even newer "Cute Art" movement, which celebrates Hello Kitty, and big-eyed pubescent kewpie-doll sex kittens adopted from manga, among other aspects of the country's rampant kitsch culture. However, Yamagiwa's pulchritudinous punk nymphets (most of which appear to be self-portraits, or at very least, surrogates for her own Bad Girl persona) are surrounded with all manner of declasse imagery ranging from Chinatown dimestore dragons, to rock and roll detritus and biker insignia, to religious icons which lend them a horror vacua fascination akin to Joe Coleman's ghoulish faux-outsider compositions.
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