Keiichi Tanaami

Tokyo

Nanzuka currently presents a solo exhibition of animation and drawings by Keiichi Tanaami. The exhibition will be comprised of two parts: the new digital animation ‚Red Colored Bridge,‘ and the enormous collection of drawings considered to be the root of Tanaami’s creative work.

Keiichi Tanaami was born in Tokyo in 1936 and graduated from Musashino Art University. A one-of-a-kind artist active since the 1960s as a graphic designer and illustrator, Tanaami is an artist who does not heed the boundaries of media and genre but instead traverses them. Tanaami received the grand prize from the Japan Advertising Artists Club in 1958 while still a student, and after graduating in the mid-’60s was baptized by psychedelic culture and Pop Art. He has since worked in a wide range of media including film, silkscreen, painting, and sculpture. A run-in with Andy Warhol in the late ’60s became one of his largest inspirations, and he has continued to this day to challenge in experimental ways the major issues within contemporary art, such as art and design, art and product, and the relation between art and daily life.

NANZUKA

July 7th – August 5th, 2012
2-17-3 Shibuya
Tokyo
Japan

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