“Even A Doll Can Do It” – Kazuki Takamatsu at Dorothy Circus Gallery

Dorothy Circus Gallery is pleased to present “Even a Doll Can Do It” a brand new body of work by Japanese artist Kazuki Takamatsu who had is first successful solo show with Dorothy Circus Gallery on 2013.

“Even a Doll Can Do it” new series features fiftheen Takamatsu’s powerful depth mapping paintings, once again half dolls female bodies are floating in a private universe coming out from black and white color declinations. 

The artist has his precise understanding and own sensitivity concerning the Japanese young girl’s mood, thoughts and feelings, bringing to life young subjects who carrie both power of Japanese thecnological development and sad aweareness of earthquake and tsunami and Japan’s  high suicide rate.

Using countless transparent layers of gouache and acrylics he creates works that have a dominating presence, able to fully immerge the viewers in the energy found in a methaphorical dance of emphasized juxtapositions.

Takamatsu’s monochromatic palette underlines the good and the evil and the “distance where there is no light and shadow”. 

The artist  merges popular culture with his cultural roots which we see in his teasing Xray lighted school girls showing up guns while wearing an “heavenly aura” upon their heads.

Takamatsu holograph-like effect is executed entirely by hand, and by the methicolous thecnique his water emerged figures seem to move into an intimate room constantly populated by the rebirth of hope and rebirth of sorrow.

During the long awaited and much attended second solo with this italian  Gallery,  Takamatsu, who is in attendance from Japan, will present and sign his first monograph book and limited edition curated by Dorothy Circus Gallery and published by the italian Publisher Drago. 

At the opening the Gallery together with the publisher will take the chance to present as well the 3rd volume of the Dorothy Circus Gallery trilogy featuring a beautiful Kazuki Takamatsu cover and the listed exhibitions inside: “Daphne Descends” – Alessia Iannetti, “13th Fortune”  – Paolo Guido, “God is Her Deejay” – Sas & Colin Christian, Afarin Sajedi, Francesca R. Di Nunzio, “White Elegy” – Kwon Kyungyup, “Because I’m a Doll” – Kazuki Takamatsu, “Hide & Seek” – Natalie Shau, “Lacrima Aquarium” – group exhibition, and focus on Chris Berens,  “The Silent Circus” – Clementine de Chabaneix, “The Trouble with Angels” – Ray Caesar.