Visit to BLESSINGS AND CURSES OF THIS WORLD by Gajin Fujita at Buchmann Galerie

“Buchmann Galerie is pleased to announce Gajin Fujita’s first solo exhibition at the gallery for Berlin Art Week.

Gajin Fujita (born 1972 in Los Angeles, USA) masterfully plays with the codes of American popular culture and interweaves them with pictorial elements of the diverse ethnic cultures in a globalized world. Logos of multinational companies are fused with motifs reminiscent of the woodcuts and ukiyo-e paintings of the Edo period, the tribal signs of graffiti form the background for Raphael’s putti, a truly contemporary cosmos of hyper-entanglement opens up.

Gajin Fujita’s extensive painterly work is characterised by its bold mixture of classical Japanese motifs and painting techniques, the dynamic aesthetics of graffiti and diverse references to Western and East Asian painting history. The artist masterfully plays with the codes of American popular culture and interweaves them with pictorial elements of Japanese culture, to which Fujita belongs through his origins, but which he only knows in a mediated way as a native American. The artist draws his concise and powerful work from this experience of a double foreignness.” (Text excerpt from the press release by courtesy of Buchmann Galerie)

More information on the Buchmann Galerie Website.