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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.
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Mari Yamagiwa / Angie
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| Bio |
Mari works for the advertising agency and the architect's office after it graduates of the high school.
Mari was a fashion designer, Teddy Bear and quilt artist from 1995 to 2002. 200 Teddy Bear that she had made sold. Her fabric collage was won a lot of international award. her works has exhibited in major exhibition in Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, and in Switzerland. Her works has been accepted for major magazine in Japan.
The art activity is started because of the publishing request from the art magazine. Both the fabric collage and paintings are exhibited from 2002 to 2003 to the group show. The influence of the fabric collage has been succeeded to the "Decorative collage".
In 2004, Mari started the artist activity by solo exhibition "Scenery of the Prayer" in Sendai, Japan. She has exhibited regularly in group and solo exhibition around Japan. The silver prize winning in the exhibition in the Croatia. Mari's works has been accepted for regular group exhibition since 2005 in Australia. Also her works has been accepted for regular group show since 2006 in New York, and since 2007 in Europe.
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Mari Yamagiwa was van 1995 tot 2002 mode ontwerpster en quilt artist. Met haar 'fabric collages' heeft ze prijzen
gewonnen en meegedaan aan belangrijke tentoonstellingen in Tokyo,Yokahama, Nagoya en in Zwitserland. Op verzoek van een Japans kunst magazine heeft ze in 2002 en 2003 voor het eerst meegedaan aan een groepstentoonstelling met haar collages en schilderijen. In 2004 begon ze met een solo expositie "Scenery of the Prayer" in Sendai in Japan. Daarna heeft ze regelmatig deelgenomen aan groepstentoonstellingen in Japan en Australië.
Haar internationale doorbraak volgde in 2006 toen ze mee ging doen met exposities bij een belangrijke galerie in het Chelsea district in New York. Mari Yamagiwa's werk is wat gewaagd en ondeugend, en wordt wel als 'Neo-Pop' of 'kinky surrealisme' betiteld, en wordt in Japan gezien als 'underground art'. Volens haar statement is iedereen vrij haar werk op een eigen manier te interpreteren.
Zij heeft geen formele kunstopleiding gevolgd en heeft zichzelf alles geleerd.
Mari is geboren op 3 februari 1971 en woont in Kyoto, Japan.
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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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