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until 26.10. | #4376ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 13. September 2024 the exhibition Blessings and Curses of this World by the artist Gajin Fujita.
Gajin Fujita (born 1972 in Los Angeles, USA) plays with the codes of American popular culture and interweaves them with visual elements from the diversity of ethnicities and cultures in a globalised world. By fusing multinational corporate logos with motifs reminiscent of Edo period woodblock prints and ukiyo-e paintings, and tribal graffiti that form the backdrop for Raphael’s cherubs, a truly contemporary cosmos of interconnectedness opens up. Fujita’s works are the expression and result of a contemporary, multi-layered cultural and pictorial production; in their “all-over”, his pictorial spaces reveal the simultaneity of the extremely contradictory cultural signs of reality. The consistently popular work of the Californian painter is thus in tune with the times without losing sight of history. Christopher Knight from the Los Angeles Times praised Fujita’s painting as “the most important representation of graffiti’s influence on art in the 21st century”.
Gajin Fujita’s works are represented in important public collections, including in the United States and Australia: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney; the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena; the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento; the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio; the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita; the Hunter Museum in Chattan-ooga; and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City
Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. September – Saturday, 26. October 2024
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Title image caption: Angel‘s Eye View, 2024, Spray paint, 23.75K gold leaf, 12K white gold leaf and paint markers on five wood panels, 182,9 x 279,4 cm / 72 x 110 in
Exhibition Gajin Fujita – Buchmann Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
