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Published: June 29 2011

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Soju Tao
In 2002 he earned a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and in 2003 joined the MFA in Painting program at SLADE School of Fine Art before returning to Japan without a degree. Working under the label Okame Pro, Tao makes drawings, paintings, installations, videos and music inspired by the cheap production capabilities of Xerox copy machines. Okame Pro’s 10 employees include artists, poets, musicians and writers, almost all of whom are actually Tao himself.

Recent solo exhibitions include Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery’s “project N” series of solo shows for emerging artists in 2007 and Gallery J☆Chen, Taipei, in 2009. Tao was selected by Sophie Calle for inclusion in the “CHANEL: Mobile Art” art exhibition that toured to Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York in 2008, and that same year was commissioned to make a special design for the Bloomberg BloomBus! shuttle service by the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. In 2009 he was included in the prestigious annual exhibition of emerging artists “VOCA: The Vision of Contemporary Art” at Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.

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Period: Saturday, July 2 - Saturday, August 13, 2011
Venue: Take Ninagawa

Last Updated on July 02 2011
 

Editor's Note by Mizuki TANAKA


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The two paintings that you should not miss are one on a small canvas which seems to get on the palm and the other drawn on a big canvas. The motif of the two works is the same; a yellow cat that stands with foot by two behind wash-line pole. It is a cat drawn like cartoon figure in graffiti-like line. However, the impression of each work is completely different according to the size of the work though both are quite the same patterns. The steady concept kept secret behind a pop style is interesting.


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