Information
Date: 2022
Size: 18.5 × 25.3 cm
Edition: -
Technique: Acrylic painting on paper
Detail: Not framed / Mounted on the pasteboard
Frame: Please Ask
Exhibition
2022 GEISAI#21 (Kaikai Kiki-Tokyo)
2021 Group Exhibition「Dystopia」(Pathos gallery - Amsterdam)
2020 Win a prize at Ashurst Emerging Artist prize (London)
2017 Group Exhibition「CONTEMPORARY VENICE」(ITS LIQUID GROUP - Venice)
Gallery Commentary
In 2016, Yamaji Naoki moved to Europe after studying oil painting in Japan. He is currently based in the Netherlands.
Yamaji has focused on his own Japaneseness, which became apparent during his life in Europe. As a result, he began to think objectively about society and its people from a uniquely Japanese perspective.
In his works, he depicts a fusion of humans and machines. While they have a dystopian aspect, they also have a sense of humor and strangeness.
Yamaji shows us one form of the relationship between humans and technology.