This is my second time meeting with Mr. Mori, who is a Japanese contemporary artist. His works are extraordinary. It is hard to find his unique style of art-making approach with a mixture of Japanese Rimpa painting and contemporary digital printing. In addition, a Japanese cartoon characteristic is too the main element in every painting that Mr. Mori created. Nevertheless, Hiroshi Mori's recent exhibition Glimmering Light has showed his latest artwork which will definitely blow the viewers' mind. With a sense of Baroque (maybe I'm wrong), contrasting with traditional Katsushika Hokusai's wave and Japanese contemporary Cartoon, each painting just exquisitely speaks for itself.
" The artist has transformed the archangel and the Virgin Mary into teenagers in Japanese manga, mixing in explosions and the Ukiyio-e master Katsushika Hokusai’s signature Great Wave as metaphors of nuclear power plant explosion and tsunami caused by earthquake. The Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster incurred by the Tohoku earthquake in 2011 has caused tremendous worries about fertility among the local women. Therefore, when the teenage girl is told about her pregnancy against the background of nuclear explosion, she appears to become bewildered and disturbed." from Art Experience Gallery press release.
Exhibition Duration:
18 May – 29 June 2013
Mon - Fri, 9:30 am - 6:30 pm, Sat, 11am – 5pm, by appointment on Sun and public holidaysExhibition
Venue:
Art Experience Gallery
Room 2009, Cable TV Tower, 9 Hoi Shing Road,
Tsuen Wan, NT, Hong Kong
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