Rising Japanese Artist Ayako Rokkaku Will Exhibit for the First Time in Europe; 18-22 April 2007

Rising Japanese Artist Ayako Rokkaku Will Exhibit for the First Time in Europe; 18-22 April 2007

January 04, 2007

    AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Jan. 4 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    Ayako Rokkaku
    Walkin' Around Clouds

    " ... I want to keep drawing for as long as
possible."

    The artist Ayako Rokkaku (1982) made this statement in
an interview at the Geisai art market in 2006 where she
participated with here own stand.  Kaikai Kiki, the company
of the renowned Japanese pop artist Takashi Murakami
launched the Geisai art market to support cutting edge
upcoming Japanese artists.  Rokkaku has won the Scout Prize
at Geisai # 4 and the prestigious Akio Goto Prize at Geisai
# 9.  Geisai invited high profile industry experts such as
Francois Pinault, owner of auction house Christie's, and
the architect Tadao Ando who both took part of the panel of
judges for the ninth edition of the art market.  Artist
Yoshimoto Nara and David Ellis formed a jury panel in
earlier editions of Geisai.

    Ayako Rokkaku lives in Chiba-ken, a town situated in
the 'greater Tokyo' area.  Rokkaku never attended art
school, here technique is self taught.  She started to
paint in 2002 and has exhibited at many art fairs in Japan.


    Rokkaku has mastered her own painting technique.  She
applies the acrylic paint on the cardboard sheets with here
bare hands.  The adolescent children, the main subject in
her work, are mostly illustrated from close-up.  The long
arms and big eyes are made in the style of Japanese Anime
(Japanese for animation) which is emphasized by the use of
bright colours and simple details.  Rokkaku does not place
the children in front of a background, which is not very
obvious at a first glance since the figures are portrayed
in various poses; sitting, running, lying.  It is this
innocent portrait of dynamic refrained from details that
form the essence of Rokkaku's work.  The power of her
direct approach to the canvas is optimal manifested in her
'performance paintings' which she creates live at art
fairs, as an audience of such a happening we get the chance
to be part of her world.

    Ayako Rokkaku's work is shown at the Art Cologne, in
the gallery in Amsterdam from 3-27 February 2007 and at the
European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht.

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