Japan still in art world "Top 10"

[Taro Toporific]

Meh. ....growing weary of the whole Murakami-Kostabi-Koons shtick

The guy in the hospital bed across from me looks like that WWII propaganda poster. I don't think it's a 'shitck'.

[dingosatemybaby]

Meh. ....growing weary of the whole Murakami-Kostabi-Koons shtick

The guy in the hospital bed across from me looks like that WWII propaganda poster. I don't think it's a 'shitck'.

Yikes - better hand over your scrap metal! By schtick (are all Yiddish-isms spelled with a "c" between the "s" and "h"?), dingo meant the pop/kitsch stylings of Murakami, et al. Those petit merdeux, as dingo heard a French art dealer describe them, have been past their sell-by dates for at least ten years.

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Distinctly Japanese voice resists translation
Artist Makoto Aida's distaste for the English language is well-known. For his "Your Pronunciation Is Wrong" performance in 2000, he took to the streets of New York, armed with placards, and told onlookers that they should, among other things, "stop speaking with trilled R's." His frustration continues today. A new painting in his exhibition at Tokyo's Mizuma Art Gallery seeks to convince us that humans were not designed to be bilingual. "I believe that, if it is possible, man should not speak more than one language," it proclaims.
...Aida is genuinely engrossed in nerdy otaku culture. More so, he is its unashamed product. Compared with the clinical Takashi Murakami, who is able to serve up calculated portions to Westerners, Aida is himself so entangled in the otaku web that he knows only to confront it head on, on its own terms. Where Murakami makes spectacular models of girls with gigantic breasts, Aida makes a video of himself masturbating in front of them. Murakami deals with otaku culture's shiny surface; Aida roots around at its dark, quirky core. For the current show, titled "Pre-Climacteric Love," he has created a giant single-frame manga. At first only the word "Manga," which is bellowed in a large dialogue box, is visible. Next come the eyes, popping from their sockets, informing us that we are looking at the face of a man. Lastly, we notice the fountain of liquid spraying up over his face, and the source of that liquid peeping into the frame at its base. The man is ejaculating on himself...more...

[Taro Toporific]

Asahi: Distinctly Japanese voice resists translation
Artist Makoto Aida's distaste for the English language is well-known...[he] seeks to convince us that humans were not designed to be bilingual. "I believe that, if it is possible, man should not speak more than one language," it proclaims.

I totally agree with Makoto Aida but....
...there is this simple but troubling linguistic fact: More than 85% of world's population is multilingual.
That is, most Chinese speak two "dialects" that are as dissimiliar as any two European languages , nearly every African speaks two languages, and a majority of Indians speak their local language and at least one other language such as English. Many in mainland Europe are bilingual so.... The world's monolingual weirdos are those in Anglosphere and the Japanese.

[ojara]

Asahi: Distinctly Japanese voice resists translation
Artist Makoto Aida's distaste for the English language is well-known...[he] seeks to convince us that humans were not designed to be bilingual. "I believe that, if it is possible, man should not speak more than one language," it proclaims.

I think, 'art' no need language.
its same as a music,
get over the border and not important of race,
I hope so.

[Taro Toporific]

I think, 'art' no need language.

Yeah! I Iooooove it.

Makoto AIDA website
Google Image Cache of AIDA-san's work

[ojara]

I saw this img before.

[Mulboyne]

Female Japanese artists got a lot of coverage this year in Europe which reminds me of this book:


"Drop Dead Cute: The New Generation of Women Artists in Japan" by Ivan Vartanian

Covering the likes of Chiho Aoshima, Makiko Kudo, Yuiko Hosoya, Chinatsu Ban, Yuko Murata and Kyoko Murase. There's also a Japanese version (see Amazon here)

[ojara]