The title of this exhibition <Lootone> is taken from the writer name of Fumio Kasama as a Graffiti artist. Each Graffiti artist has his own so-called ‘writer name’ and dares not to use his own family name while he is active.
Kieth Haring, Jan-Michel Basquiat or Bansky are the artists emerged from the Graffiti or Street art world. The border between Graffiti and Fine art, especially in the present contemporary art is getting extremely close and nearly crossing over each other.
This <Lootone> exhibition is the Graffiti artist, Fumio Kasama’s trial to cross over the border to the Fine art side. However, the artist still keeps on having the ‘poisonous’ part of Graffiti, of which challenging sharp horn seems pointing us and asking the question what message the contemporary art should utter. |
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A Gaudily Woman
2008
acrylic on canvas
2000 × 1545mm |
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Girl
2008
acrylic on canvas
1750 × 1405mm
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Fresh Meat in the sky
2008
acrylic on canvas
530 × 455mm (F10) |
| 1969 |
Born in Ishikawa |
| 1990 |
Graduated from Ishikawa National Technical College, Electric Engineering Section |
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| Totally 17 years of Graffiti career |
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| 2008 |
Active as a cooperate designer for "EL. BROWN" (Fashion brand) |
| 2006 |
Live Painting at "TATTOO SUMMIT vol.7", Aichi |
| 2005 |
Appeared on Fuji TV programme "NONFIX Street Panting" |
| 2004 |
Solo Exhibition, Bar "Julep", Ikebukuro, Tokyo
27th Hakua Group Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo |
| 2003 |
Solo Exhibition, Bar "Julep", Ikebukuro, Tokyo
Live Painting at "Shizuoka Street Festival", Shizuoka (after this, invited every year) |
| 2002 |
Painted a car at "COOL@JAPAN 2002", Hong Kong |
| 2001 |
Active as a cooperate designer for "DOARAT" (Fashion brand) |
