photo: SAIKI Taku
Tentenpou
| Artist | DEKI Yayoi |
|---|---|
| Year | 1997 |
| Material/ Technique | acrylic on paper and board |
| Size/ Duration | H147 × W315cm |
| Copyright Notice | © DEKI Yayoi |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2005（作品購入年月日：2005/03/31） |
| Description | Born in Osaka, Japan in 1977. Lives and works there. Deki Yayoi attracted critical attention as the youngest artist to participate in the “Ground Zero Japan” exhibition at Art Tower Mito in 1999, the same year she held her first solo show. She depicts in the real world in the form of paintings the fantasy world of ‘Nanakamura,’ a world that only she can see. Countless spots of color printed with her fingertip cover every inch of her paintings, and within each fingerprint is drawn using a fine brush the face of a human or animal. Deki strives to fill her canvases with depictions of the residents of Nanakamura. The works that result from this method exhibit aspects of an obsessive, other-dimension universe. Close inspection reveals that the single face depicted on the large panel is actually made up of a massive number of small faces. Each of these small faces consists of a fingerprinted contour and facial features painted with a fine brush. The figure depicted in the lower part of the painting was modeled on a musician the artist was infatuated with at the time she created the work. Her obsession with this person finds expression in this ornate fantasy, bursting with color, whose every space is filled with intricate detail. The distinctive features of this work are the physical act of pressing the fingers on the picture plane, the delicate miniaturist technique and the composition in which the micro and the macro worlds coexist. According to Deki, the title “Tentenpou” refers to someone from a dream whose true identity is unknown. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
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