"drawings" proposes artistic expression that manifests transformation of objects, fusion of represented bodies, stressed materiality of a picture or unpredicted movement of artist's hands. Being opened to experiment and research, drawing makes possible aesthetic experience of "spot" and "accident", "incompleteness" and "indefiniteness". "frantic", while meaning "agitated state" or "being out of control", first hints on the character of unrestrained art of drawing it self, while in the same time stresses a particularity of drawn "altered bodies", "visualized metamorphoses", "destruction of a figure", "intensity" and "unfolding". "frantic drawings" depict injury of things, clash of bodies, cruel merge of previously separate entities. Thus, "Bad Boy" of Ryoji Suzuki, first, synthesizes words "bad" and "bat" in the title of the work that depicts "a bad boy with a bat", than , it shows a figure of a hooligan covered with white lines of bandage. Naoki Sasayama produces special pigments of watercolors to draw destroyed in auto catastrophe cars. Bodies in his works are mixed with metal of a vehicle and objects of surrounding landscape, composing filled with life "semi-organic carpets" and "catastrophic mutations" of metal and flesh. "frantic drawings" generate vortex of figures and abstract tie of images. Aya Ohnishi creates room where intestines-like-tubes and parasite-like-ribbons interweave with each other giving birth to the Gordian Knots of representations. Recent research of Shu Ohno dedicated to Memory, Childhood and figure of Huge Slag is represented by its last developments: the body of the worms and masses of slag attack apartment house and untroubled daily life. Finally, "frantic drawings" are pulling depicted figure to the extremes of abstract and concrete. Haruki Ogawa just with one spot and few thrown on paper accident lines of ink creates a figure of man and rather definite emotional atmosphere. Taisuke Mohri, persistently struggling to overcome his already inhuman technical strength, reinforces depiction of barely seen details of face thus pushing the portrait beyond "natural", "mimetic", "similar" and, eventually, "recognizable" and "concrete". "frantic drawings" exhibition, while radically manifesting features of watercolor and pencil, presents figures "out of control" and, since "frantic" is not only a word of exhibition title, but a part of the gallery name as well, it is eventually proposes to its organizers, participants and guests to think about the identity of frantic gallery and frantic figures it is associated with. (Rodion Trofimchenko) Artist’s Profile
Aya Ohnishi: 1978 Born in Yonkoku, Japan
2001 Graduated Tokyo University of Industrial Art, Art Department Awards
2002 NHK Digital Stage Prize
2001 Yurii Norshtein Prize Haruki Ogawa: 1985 Born in Kanagawa prefecture
2008 Entered Tokyo Zokei University
Solo Exhibitions: 2009 Irritated Figures, frantic gallery, Tokyo Naoki SASAYAMA ( a.k.a. Soda hiebie): 1981 Born in Shiga, Japan.
2005 Graduated from Osaka University of Arts.
Lives and Works in Tokyo.
Solo Exhibitions: 2006　'''The Creation'', Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
2005　''Did my time'', Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
2004　''Heart full of pain'', Gallery Iteza, Kyoto
2003　''Boys don't cry'', GUILD Gallery, Osaka Ryoji Suzuki: 1973 Born in Chiba , Japan
1999 Graduated Tama Art University, Art Course, Major in Print
Awards: The 61th Niki Exhibition Excellent prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2009　“Box Series” Solo Show, Palais Project,Vienna
2008　Ryoji Suzuki Solo Exhibition, Artis Kagurazaka Gallery, Tokyo
2007　Ryoji Suzuki Solo Exhibition, Artis Kyoto Imadegawa Gallery, Kyoto、Ryoji Suzuki Solo Exhibition, Artis Kagurazaka Gallery, Tokyo Shu Ohno: 1981 Born in Fukuoka
2004 Graduated Industrial University of Kyushu, Art Department, Sculpture
2006 Master Degree at Tokyo Art University, Sculpture
Solo Exhibitions: 2006 SUPER NOISE SCULPTURE, LIVE&MORIS, Tokyo
2008 Our Forgotten Home Task, art project frantic, Tokyo Taisuke Mohri: 1983 Born in Sapporo, Hokaido
2009 Tokyo Art University, B.A. Industrial Arts
Awards: 2008　"Fujino Prize”, Fujino Kinzoku Co. * The text provided by frantic gallery.