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Exhibition of Shinohara Yujiotoko's couple
"Love Is A Roar-r-r-r! In Tokyo
Cry of love Tokyo Hen "

And contemporary artist Shinohara Yujiotoko who is affectionately known as the Gyuu chan, exhibition of the Tsuma乃Riko's couple Futari "Love Is A Roar-r-r-r! In Tokyo Love cry Tokyo Hen" is 12 than a month 13 days, began in the Shibuya Parco Museum. The exhibition, documentary film that records the love and the struggle of Futari "Cutie & boxer"Than that of December 21,Shibuya Cinema RiseIn that commemoration to be published.

Speaking of Gyuu-chan, you know people would also be many. 12th Yoshimura exine's was exhibited at the Yomiuri Independent Exhibition and Genpei Akasegawa who was held on 60 February, it formed the art collective "Neo Dadaism-organizer's" in Shusaku Arakawa et al young avant-garde artists, its central working as a member such. Among them, it was tighten known the world the name of Gyuu-chan, was a photo book American photographer William Klein have taken "TOKYO" was housed in the (1964 annual) "Boxing Painting".
Photos "TOKYO" (1964 annual / photography: William Klein)

Thereafter, the avant-garde artists of the rebellious Mohawk is, we came in from the art scene on the street performance. And Masaharu Fukuyama in 2004 Pocari Sweat of CM, even people that stores the scenes contest in boxing painting, would be surely many.

Meeting with 乃Riko Mr. NY. 1969, Gyuu chan will visit the United States and started when you study abroad to learn just 乃Riko's also art in the same period. After that, the two of fall in love, get married. Young 乃Riko who was married recalls the life after marriage "It was a series of hardships and trouble." Even while continuing to work as himself artist, a wife, a mother, when to be an assistant ..., I walked while facing a variety of difficulties and troubles. In a sense, it was a 乃Riko's was the presence that hide behind Gyuu chan, worked on Cutie series that was to model themselves in 2006, gradually to demonstrate their own personality. The history of the series is 40 years full of chaos of a couple of artists to each other, which is my alter ego heroine "Cutie", and drawings have entrusted their lives to "Bully" is an alter ego of Gyuu-chan, are spelled in the comics.
"Cutie picture scroll painting" (Shinohara 乃Riko)

For Gyuu chan of style to give An intense seared primary colors on the canvas, work's 乃Riko in the indigo color, is characterized by being drawn in a very soft touch. However, contrary to pretty picture, the contents of which day-to-day naked love with Bree (Gyuu-chan), Cutie is intense and painful to scramble holding a baby in the nude. Those that had been pent up in the inner until now, as if they were at once the explosion. All and expose, cry, laugh and powerful Cutie figure to raise the cry of love, not help but feel the beauty of a true woman.

乃Riko Mr. "artist, strip, do not unless Sarakedasa an inner surface more than naked" called. "I'm young couple when I went to the exhibition in New York came to play, watching the picture scroll of this Cutie & Brie," women married life, burst into tears me so very of "" and reveal the episode. Messed marital life among artists, might be strong a little stimulus to young people. But, while there has been drawn raw human drama, you can feel a kind of seen what piled the years "happy life."

The exhibition is intended to commemorate the movie release, it has been special planning a two-person exhibition, which was held in NY as Tokyo version. Such as the production process has been introduced in Sakuchu, in addition to the epic story of Cutie & Brie on the wall around the person room is drawn "Cutie & Buri picture scroll painting," "Cutie & Brie consists of 19 sheets of drawings (true story) "and the like, 乃Riko's work 15 points. On the other hand, from Ushio's masterpiece such as "motor cycle", 24 points until the latest installment of the three-dimensional works with the motif of "frog" and "Boxing Painting" are on display. Especially boxing painting, but it is often done in the usual ink color, this time is unusual also the point where the color work two points are on display.
"Boxing for William Klein!" (August 20, 2013, Ushio Shinohara)

Top photo, the latest work of boxing painting that was produced for the Gyuu chan photographer William Klein. August 20, 2013, listening to the reputation of the movie that has been published in the New York "Cutie & boxer", but so Klein became your year 85-year-old came in about 50 years to see Gyuu chan. At that time, it's boxing paintings that showed off in front of Klein. The impression of that time, Gyuu chan called "but had taken old enough uncertain even of Klein walk, photographed work was truly" I was surprised to abiding ability and.
"Pokemon Motorcycle" (2000, Ushio Shinohara)

About the last documentary shooting more than four years also continue to follow the husband and wife, to Gyuu chan do not mind that it is alien be taken a. Naked became somehow because "coach was a foreigner, because do not know Japanese (Lol)". On the other hand, 乃Riko Mr. "beginning (Gyuu chan), but had become firmly aware, like shooting is no longer so much aware of him to become long-term. Men and women of the struggle that's the theme that leads to all of the people I think "and was asked to comment.

"Integral What is a couple?" - To stimulate the five senses enough to tingling, it is to feel the love of the depth of the couple Futari. Recommended for married life more than five years of married couple! Exhibition until January 13, 2014 (Monday).

Editorial department · Fuji Itakashi

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