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Kae Tanaka "Kae-chan's Imagination Oasis"
TAV Gallery
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Kae Tanaka
Kae Tanaka was born in 1995 and was influenced by Osamu Tezuka and Hideo Azuma, whom she read as a child. Tanaka has been acclaimed both in Japan and abroad as an artist who draws symbols (characters) that represent women living today since the 2010s, and in recent years has been featured in Netflix's "Queer Eye in Japan!" ( (2019) and has been appointed as a collaborative artist for "Urusei Yatsura x Manga Art Beams Ramu Collection".
This exhibition, "Kae-chan's Imagination Oasis," is Tanaka's first exhibition at TAV Gallery in five years, since her first solo exhibition, "Kae-chan's Chocolate Box. The motifs of the characters with distorted eyes and faces are the expressions of objects of disgust and fear sculpted in silicon, "sanctioned" with thoughts using iron balls and other objects, and then stretched out at random. Along with her new drawings, the highlight of the exhibition will be a collaboration with Megumi Ohata, an up-and-coming artist based in London who works with silicone using skin as a motif.
While Kae Tanaka explores the relationship between character and fear using herself and women as motifs, Megumi Ohata is known for her work that captures the body as an act of rebirth into an inhuman existence based on the analysis of trauma. What both artists have in common is a redefinition of human existence while grounded in contemporaneity.
This exhibition, "Kae-chan's Imagination Oasis," is Tanaka's first exhibition at TAV Gallery in five years, since her first solo exhibition, "Kae-chan's Chocolate Box. The motifs of the characters with distorted eyes and faces are the expressions of objects of disgust and fear sculpted in silicon, "sanctioned" with thoughts using iron balls and other objects, and then stretched out at random. Along with her new drawings, the highlight of the exhibition will be a collaboration with Megumi Ohata, an up-and-coming artist based in London who works with silicone using skin as a motif.
While Kae Tanaka explores the relationship between character and fear using herself and women as motifs, Megumi Ohata is known for her work that captures the body as an act of rebirth into an inhuman existence based on the analysis of trauma. What both artists have in common is a redefinition of human existence while grounded in contemporaneity.
Schedule | Apr 14 (Fri) 2023-Apr 30 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Apr 14 (Fri) 2023 18:00 - 21:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://tavgallery.com/kaechang/ | ||||
| Venue | TAV Gallery | ||||
| Location | 4F, 2-7-5 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. 11 minute walk from exit A5 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. 11 minute walk from exit 1a at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 080-1231-1112 | ||||
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