AsiaAlive: Modern Samurais—Natsusaka Shinichiro demo, Asian Art Museum, 3-6 Sep 09
By Ann| September 3, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
| September 4, 2009 | ||
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| September 5, 2009 | ||
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| September 6, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 4:00 pm |
Location: San Francisco, Asian Art Museum, North Court
FREE with general admission
Japanese artist Natsusaka demonstrates and presents his original narrative sculpture work “A Carved Strip,” inspired by traditional samurai stories. Natsusaka mixes contemporary art, storytelling, kitsch images and text to create this crossover art form.
About the artist:
Born in 1971 in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Natsusaka Shinichiro graduated from Tama Art University in 1996 with a degree in oil painting. He started creating a series of sculptural works with characters and typography he calls Kambanart (“billboard” in Japanese plus the English word “art”) while he was in school. Since 1997, he has created more than 300 figurines as characters from popular animated movies like Princess Mononoke and Nightmare before Christmas.
Natsusaka relocated to France in 2000 and presented an installation that combined sculptural figures and storytelling titled Bande Sculptée (A Carved Strip). In 2004, La Planète des Samouraïs (English title: Planet of Samurais), a part of the installation Bande Sculptée won the Excellence Prize in the Manga division of the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival.
He also participated in Totoro Forest Project at Pixar Animation Studio, California in 2008 and currently working on continuation of the story La Planète des Samouraïs.
