Akira Yamaguchi Exhibition"Singa-planet"

On March 12, a new exhibition started in JCC. Japanese contemporary artist Akira Yamaguchi holds his first solo exhibition overseas as a collateral event of Singapore Biennale. He kindly guided a tour of his creations for participants in Artist Talk. He visited Singapore last summer and created his new works inspired by Singapore. In the Multi-purpose Hall he built structures like HDB buildings





He also brought some of his old works. Mr. Yamaguchi's paintings, at a glance, resemble Japanese ancient paintings such as Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e. He uses a bird-eye perspective, which is the same technique used for Yamato-e and Ukiyo-e, and this is what distinguishes his works from western paintings. Simply put, things far are drawn as big as things near. However, if you look at them closely, you can find humorous images which would never appear in Yamato-e or Ukiyo-e, like a samurai on a motorbike.









He even created a tea ceremony room made of modern materials. His movie made of different HDB rooms makes us feel as if we were going up on an HDB elevator.



For details please visit an information page of this event.