Minako Asakura

Japanese Contemporary Art by Minako Asakura - Unicorn

2020

Acrylic, watercolour, crayon & pencils on marouflaged paper with wooden panel & signed on reverse Minako Asakura is a Japanese artist born in 1973 who lives & works in Tokyo, Japan....

Acrylic & watercolour on paper + frame

Prashant Salvi Leap, Watercolour, Acrylic, Charcoal on Paper 22 x 30 inches, 2016 (shipped in a roll form) "I have built my career on surrealist,anatomical/botanical fantasies; beautifully rendered yet sometimes haunting and gruesome, void of irony and done with absolute sincerity. My work builds meaning primarily by exploring the unbridgeable difference between animals and people. A proactive imagery of humans and animals suggests an investigation of linguistics, the natural sciences and human sociology all in respect to the parallel universe of other species alongside us. I use a seemingly detached abstraction as a counter-point, tomy- stylised fabrications of sexual desire"- Prashant Salvi An undercurrent of eroticism, viewed with a steady detachment often can be part of Salvi's works, morphing human and animal forms and throwing psychological riddles challenging the viewer to decide where life begins or ends. Salvi's watercolours with its technical virtuosity turn images from nature to a surrealistic dance of survival. The works are challenging, complex and magically real and acknowledge life’s gentleness and aggressiveness in unison. While nature’s logic could be used to argue the very existence of an omnipotent creator, Salvi, paradoxically suggests ambiguity to life's bigger and deeper questions; answers of which he feels don't come in neat packages. " Education : Sir JJ School of Arts , Mumbai Solo Exhibition 2019 • Haptic, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2017 • Alter-native, Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad, Bangalore 2014 • Let Every Eye Negotiate for itself. Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 2011 • Lxxxll Pulse, Frankfurth, Germany. 2002 • “Skhalan” Solo Art Gallery, Mumbai. Group Show 2017/2018 • Busan International Art Fair, Busan, South Koria. 2016 • Axis of Secret Histories /All this comes back, Kochi-Muziris Biennale Collateral Exhibition, Mattancherry. 2014 • Convergence, Vam Art Gallery, Trivendram. 2013 • Small is Beautiful, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2013 • Oozing, Group Show, Tulika art Gallary, Mumbai 2013 • On Cloud 9, Kala Sanskriti Academy of Fine Arts, New Delhi-2013 2013 • JJ90s –The time of Change, J.J. School of Art,Mumbai 2012 • Indian Art Festival, MMRD Bandra, Mumbai. 2012 • ViVid World, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2012 • Online, La Sutra Gallery Mumbai. 2011 • Indian Art Festival, Nehru Centre, Mumbai 2010 • Evolve, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2009 • Indian Contemporary Art, La Sutra Gallery Mumbai. 2008 • Journey, New York Academy of Art, New York 2008. 2008 • Eight Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2008 • Black & White Show, Tao Art Gallery, Mumbai. 2007 • Art Works on Paper, Articulture gallery, Mumbai 2006 • Group Show, Visions Art Gallery, Mumbai 2005 • 10” Harmony Show, Mumbai. 2007 • Luise Sepra International Art Project, Lisbon, Portugal. 2003 • AIFACS Show, Mumbai 2003 • FN-FN,Figurative Narative,Curated by Neville Tuli 2002 • Majority Rules, Free Gallery Galsgow, Curated Letha Wilson. 2001 • BPM Biennial, Bose Pacia Gallery, New York. 2000 • Awareness of Environment, Mumbai. 2000 • Revolution 2000 show, Jahangir Art Gallery, Mumbai 1998 • Bombay Art Society Exhibition, Mumbai. 1993 • Close to nature, Mumbai 1992 • City Bank Art Exhibition, Mumbai. Award 2018 • Mount Shadow, National Water Colour Camp, Bhavnagar. 2001 • Winner, Bose Paica Emerging Artist Award, New York. 1995 • Solemn Abraham Best Water Colour Portrait...

The depiction of flamingo and Spanish hair comb is an author's play around similar sounding words. The prevalent colours are pink, green and grey. The picture size is 16x12 in (40,5x30 cm) Alisa Fomina, 1989, Minsk (Belarus). Born in an environment with artistic traditions, raised in Andalusia and currently residing in Madrid, Spain. Graduated in Advertising and Public Relations, University Rey Juan Carlos, 2013 (Madrid, Spain). Since childhood, influenced by family artistic tradition and dedicated to drawing that resulted in the First Prize at the XI Christmas Card Contest (2004) and First Prize at the XII Contest in 2005, Marbella. Her work, mostly paintings and drawings are made for private collectors. However she has been participating with different brands like the Spanish brand ‘Citrique Sunglasses’. In 2016 a collaboration with the "Italian Institute of Culture" in the lectures of the writer Giorgio Caproni with an illustration of the writer. As well, the participation in the project of the Italian writer Alessandro Ferraro in the book '' The secret galleries of the soul. Giorgio Caproni '', for Ediciones Complutense with the portrait of Giorgio Caproni, 2019. A collaboration with the Spanish newspaper ‘El Pais’ with an illustration in one of his reports of the singer Nick Cave. In November 2016 made a deck designed exclusively for ‘Correos España’, the national postal service, in the "Generations Collection", whose originals are exhibited at the Galería Cartel of Málaga in April and May 2017. The illustrations have a graphic technique with the use of materials such as acrylic paint, watercolor pencils and felt-tip pens. Influenced by the children's world taking as reference the old cartoons, their stories and fantasy with very small details and always with vivid colors. FAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS ·Participation in the collective exhibition in Gallery "Art Enfant" (Moscow) 2013. · Exhibition in "Sánchez y Juan Gallery" (Elche, Spain) January 2014. · Exhibition at "Galería Sánchez y Juan" (Elche, Spain) from January 2015 to December 2016. · Periodic sale in the "Alexander Luxury Home Collection" since 2014 (Marbella, Spain). · Exhibition in "Galería Cartel" (Málaga, Spain) 2015. · Exhibition in "Galería Cartel" (Málaga, Spain) from April to May 2017. · Collective exhibition in "Want Art Gallery...