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Yosuke Bandai
From 2006 to 2008, when Yosuke Bandai started his career as an artist, he presented unique photographs; he visited forests, woods and factories to create sculptures that were assembled from found materials at those places, and he made documentation of them. Bandai’s works are highly regarded by Shigeo Goto and Tim Barber. Bandai was previously a member of the artist group Mihokanno.
In 2008, because of the pressure to produce a lot of work for shows, Bandai lost his physical and physiological balance, finally acquiring a bipolar disorder. During his struggle fighting his disorder, he found that “Art is a power to have an experience of the truth during hard times.” Then he started to look for new methods to create his work while he managed his bipolar disorder. In 2009, he started using a scanner instead of a camera as a photographic tool, repeated over hundreds times scanning around his house while destroying the scanner, finally creating and presenting his works “Sunrise”, “321” and “545”.
This show, three years after his last one-man outing, consists of digital images mainly found from the Internet, as well as his past photography works. Put them together, subtract from them, hybrid them, and sometimes trace them. They are constructed by those digital images and a combination of strange titles such as “Attempted Strangulation”, “Crawling out of the ground” and “Laughing while crying”.
[Image: Yosuke Bandai "Grave digging" (2012) lambda print, plexiglass 90x90cm]
In 2008, because of the pressure to produce a lot of work for shows, Bandai lost his physical and physiological balance, finally acquiring a bipolar disorder. During his struggle fighting his disorder, he found that “Art is a power to have an experience of the truth during hard times.” Then he started to look for new methods to create his work while he managed his bipolar disorder. In 2009, he started using a scanner instead of a camera as a photographic tool, repeated over hundreds times scanning around his house while destroying the scanner, finally creating and presenting his works “Sunrise”, “321” and “545”.
This show, three years after his last one-man outing, consists of digital images mainly found from the Internet, as well as his past photography works. Put them together, subtract from them, hybrid them, and sometimes trace them. They are constructed by those digital images and a combination of strange titles such as “Attempted Strangulation”, “Crawling out of the ground” and “Laughing while crying”.
[Image: Yosuke Bandai "Grave digging" (2012) lambda print, plexiglass 90x90cm]
Schedule | May 12 (Sat) 2012-Jun 9 (Sat) 2012 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception May 12 (Sat) 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | ||
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Venue | Ai Kowada Gallery http://www.aikowadagallery.com/  | ||
| Location | Room211 3331 Arts Chiyoda, 6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021 | ||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 4 at Suehirocho Station on the Ginza line, 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Yushima Station on the Chiyoda line, 11 minute walk from the Electric Town exit of JR Akihabara Station. | ||
| Phone | 080-4415-8322 | ||
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