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USUGROW / He started his activity as artist by creating punk rock flyers, and he still continues making art for album covers, skateboards and clothing as well as more personal illustration and painting works. He skillfully and beautifully portrays opposing elements including delicate line and unique lettering style, skull and flower, black and white, yin and yang in a picture. He has done his solo show and participated a lot of group shows in overseas. His artwork has been developed in monochrome tone, only with a minimum tool and it has been giving more complexity in recent years. www.usugrow.com usugrow.blogspot.com
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MOZYSKEY / His style is edgy and startling and instantly brings strong tension to the audience. But that sense of tension may bring relief that mimics feelings of resignation instead of frightfulness. The essence of street bombing has been well honed and it's going to next level, and you can see that in his artwork. And the essence appears everywhere whether on canvas or in open space. The lettering style is even more unique, his mysterious existence is also a part of his artwork by using several names and leaving traces all over the world.
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TOSHIKAZU NOZAKA / Artist, Tattooer and Skateboarder. There are three main means of expression that he uses and its commonness is the concentration power for getting through with resulting lines instantly, the typical Japanese spiritualness and his approach. Within the three main means of expression, he continues to explorer the interpretation and methodology as Japanese, and sublimate it as new aesthetic sense. He has been having his solo show every year since 2003, and also participating a group show actively. He also runs his own skate company called Asianwave skates. toshikazu-nozaka.com
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BENE / Some time ago, people used to call a strange existence or phenomenon beyond knowledge "specter" in Japan. It's the ancient indigenous concept of fear that Japanese people have learned from nature. He portrays those invisible sign of presence and the feeling in Japanese nature, towns, and canvas. He has also been deeply involved with music such as hip hop, electronica, avant-garde etc., and actively performing an improvisational live paint with musicians. He has also done his exhibition at Tokyo No.12 Gallery in 2008. oandoki.blogspot.com
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JUN KANEKO / Just like rotten plants, and fading irons and buildings that he likes, the color of black dissolved in water often appears in his artwork has a charm like an antique which gets more beautiful and venerable as time passes. There is no negative and decadent atmosphere there. From his artwork, you can actually feel positive and creative atmosphere that is trying to create something slowly with time. He has also been deeply linked with music scene, and has done a collaboration with the late DJ CLOCK and been working regularly on the flyer design of the party 420 Tour which has been held at Daikanyama Saloon. www.junkaneko.jp junkaneko.blogspot.com
Text by Blackdot (Shingan Art Publishing, Inc.) & Usugrow Transrated by Reddot (Shingan Art Publishing, Inc.) 解説 / 黒点(心眼美術出版) 薄黒 (C)2009
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