(openPR) - December 2009, Berlin art space "Kunstraum Richard Sorge" presents a large exhibition of Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Hiroki Otsuka's paintings and murals, titled "Everything to More".
Hiroki, a well-known erotic Manga artist for more than 13 years, cooperates on Jeremy Wade's Manga-inspired Berlin theater production "there is no end to more," which will later be presented at the NY Japan Society. On November 28, a day after the premiere performances of the piece in Berlin, Hiroki's exhibition will be unveiled at Kunstraum Richard Sorge.
In his drawings and paintings, Otsuka makes an elegant transition from erotic Manga to disturbing erotic fine art, applying intriguing gender twists to his uninhibited explorations of sexuality. His works "delve into our own experiences of the carnal; whether straight, gay, trans-gendered or otherwise, these works speak to the diversity of sexuality," Warhol Museum curator and expert for Japanese modern art Eric C. Shiner has written.
After Tokyo, Otsuka has lived in San Francisco, and is currently based in New York, where he has worked for the Takashi Murakami studio and exhibited with such artists as Yoko Ono and Yasunao Tone. He has recently executed large scale murals for the Japan Society (NY). Otsuka's work can currently be viewed in "Making faces : Depiction of women in Japan from Edo to Today" at the Pittsburgh University Art Galleryat the Pittsburgh University Art Gallery.
Opening reception: Sa. Nov. 28, 7pm, w. DJ, video screening, special facade projections. Special after-party on the premises.
Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Old Brewery, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin
Transport: Tram M5, M6, M8. S-Bahnhof: Landsberger Allee.
Located in a romantically crumbling historic Berlin-Friedrichshain brewery that hosts many art spaces and music studios, Kunstraum Richard Sorge reaches a young, and international audience, but adventurous discerning art lovers as well.
Kunstraum Richard Sorge's large, white, yet still funky space is snugly hidden inside the building's Street-art covered walls. Its industrial charm and monastical feel create a fitting ambiance to experience art.
Modeling itself after a - probably misguided - fantasy of egalitarian GDR exhibition customs, the artist-run space focuses its exhibitions on subversive crafts, club/vj culture, kinetic- and light art, queer/feminist art and subcultures.
Like the spy Richard Sorge, the art space independently works from a marginal, yet cosmopolitan position to ultimately save the world.
Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Landsberger Allee 54, 10249 Berlin
Tel: +491723118432
Email: richard.sorge@nym.hush.com
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