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Contemporary Japanese artist Kazuki Umezawa creates complex collages from found digital material. The chaotic array of images, occasionally layered with paint, presents a bombardment of visual information densely packed into a single frame. The artist deconstructs the specificity of original images and recontextualizes them to create drastically new forms and shapes. Born in 1985 in Saitama in Japan, Umezawa was raised in an artistic family. Determined to be an artist at an early age, Umezawa entered a special art track in high school. He attended Musashino Art University in Japan from 2005 to 2008, a time marked in Japanese popular culture for the dramatic expansion of the internet. The development of anonymous and online creative spaces inspired the artist’s style of endless appropriation, collage, and combinations of analog and digital processes. In 2009, Umezawa joined the collective Chaos Lounge, which was started by the artist Uso Fujishiro. The group aimed to
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If you’re a lover of illustrations depicting post-apocalyptic cityscapes, you may already be a follower of Mad Dog Joneson Instagram. The Canada-based artist specializes in digital compositions depicting cyberpunk scenes and visionary dreamworlds. The artist recently teamed up with Nifty Gateway to launch a selection of NFT-based artworks unique pieces that have been tokenized on the Ethereum blockchain.
Mad Dog Jones will release animated works under a series entitled
Crash + Burn as well as
Burn Mechanic. A total of ten works will be available to purchase on Nifty Gateway’s website starting February 18. The last time the artist teamed up with Nifty Gateway, he sold a work for over 400,000 USD with Deadmau5 and believes these next drops will “surpass that.”
Celebrate the beginning of
2021 with the National Ballet of Japan’s (NBJ) New Year Ballet performance. Featuring classical ballet, such as “Paquita,” and innovative modern ballet, such as D. Bintley’s “‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Cafe,” along with original pieces, the show offers an insight into the year to come at the NBJ. The performance simultaneously celebrates the future with original pieces by the “NBJ Choreographic Group,” and honors the past with the second act “Soirée de Ballet” in memory of the late dancer and choreographer Hideo Fukagawa.
Opera Palace, New National Theatre Tokyo
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