Heavy Crown -R (2018) Digital Arts by Takayoshi Ueda

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Limited Edition 2 / 6 Digital collage: pigment-based inkjet print on fabric print media, synthetic resin, wood panel (panel mount) ●Picture image continues to the side of the panel. ●State of the work: favorable ●Surface of my work has gloss by resin coating. ●The signature is stated in the thickness[...]
Limited Edition 2 / 6

Digital collage:
pigment-based inkjet print on fabric print media, synthetic resin, wood panel (panel mount)

●Picture image continues to the side of the panel.
●State of the work: favorable
●Surface of my work has gloss by resin coating.
●The signature is stated in the thickness part at the bottom of the screen.
●You can display directly without framing.

*For bio / cv, please visit in presentation.
​​(Photograph of back side of the work also published.)

statement
My works are made up of strips of hand colored paper arranged in a collage.
Every individual shape that forms the image is flexible and rich with variety, and it has recognizable forms that, while based on everyday animals and plants, are unique and extremely solid.
While I was born and raised in an urban area, I spent a number of years living in a mountain village in the countryside during the mid 1990s.
My experience directly observing the diversity of the wild animals and plants and fascinating ecosystem inspired the atypical animal and plant forms that appear in my work.
In addition to that, I also take inspiration from modern animation and movies, on top of the works of the master artists of Japan from the 17th-19th centuries.
The fantastic expressions I use are not simply depictions of the invisible spiritual beings or magical creations that have been present in Asian countries since ancient times, nor are they a counter-expression against the naturalism of the Western world. Instead, my expressions can be characterized as a tribute to the metaphor of biodiversity and the symbiotic relationship it has with the world. In other words, it adds a universal ideology to a generalized model that depicts these many fantastic elements.
The primary theme in the creation of my work is the existence of a new symbiotic space established in the search for new areas where diversity and individuality can coexist. A key element of this work is the linkage and harmony of each individual part.
It could also be called an experiment to visually connect something typically separated, such as different ethnicities or cultures.
It symbolizes a world view established on adding order to individual parts is structurally the same as actual human society.
Moreover, it could also be said that the piece is a visual simulation of a new symbiotic space for its viewers and for me, its creator.

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Takayoshi Ueda is an artist who works creating primarily digital collages in Japan. He was born in 1969 and raised in Osaka, and began studying oil painting at art school in Kyoto. He was deeply[...]

Takayoshi Ueda is an artist who works creating primarily digital collages in Japan.

He was born in 1969 and raised in Osaka, and began studying oil painting at art school in Kyoto.

He was deeply impressed by the expressive ability of the monochrome paint software he experienced while studying there, and began creating with a computer in 1994.

After producing fantastical digitally processed, hand colored material with a variety of painting materials from 1996-2000 called his “Digilo-graphy”, he began transitioning 

into digital collages using atypically shaped plants and animals from 2008.

His current work began with the idea of presenting the illustrations he made for the characters of his children's picture book, (Silent book), in late 2007, as individual 

two-dimensional works.

Further, the diversity of the plants and animals and the pleasure of the ecological system that he observed during his years of living in the forest and mountains of Wakayama 

over half of the 90's, his experience of the fierceness of nature in typhoons and more, and the Buddhist philosophy of life that he ascribes to all deeply affect his work.

These teachings preach the hard to break connection between oneself and the environment, and that the heart and body are one, which are also important elements of his work.

His representative works post-2010 have won the Asia Digital Art World in the still image division, and he participated in the STRICOFF Gallery group exhibit in NY as 

a finalist for the ARTBOX. PROJECT New York 1.0.

Additionally, he has applied graphic design to put a selection of his works onto apparel, etc., since 2011, and has opened an online store.

He has also received a number of awards in the design field, such as winning the GOOD DESIGN EXPO message T-shirts design contest.

He began to create several types of hand made art books in 2014, and has been proactively participating in international art book exhibits, and is currently beginning to 

create a new ZINE that uses the same media that he uses in his actual works.

Ueda currently resides in Wakayama, Japan, where he has his own studio.

He draws and paints his materials there, and also has a system where he can input and output work from his computer.

It is the place from which he announces his pieces and partakes in global activities including groups exhibits and art fairs in a total of 11 countries and regions across Asia, 

Europe, and North America.

Currently, Ueda’s NFT artworks available on SuperRare (https://superrare.com/takayoshi).

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