Iichiro Tanaka is an upcoming Japanese artist who employes humor into his ceation. Cunning, a bit peculiar and achived with very simple means. Here two of his works as examples.
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| Iichiro Tanaka, Drop-eyed Daruma, 2002, mixed media |
First one presents Daruma, a wish doll which has a face with a mustache and beard but without eyes. One eye is painted on while making a wish, the other when the has come true fills in a single circular eye while thinking of a wish.
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| Iichiro Tanaka, classical music karaoke, 2006, DVD 11.5min. |
The other explores fenomena of karaoke in which the greatest classical music masterpieces has been converted into 'hummable' nonsense momoslyllabes allowing visitors to sing along.
photos from www.yukasasaharagallery.com/artists/tanaka.html
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