Published 27 AUG 2024
Gajin Fujita
Blessings and Curses of this World
Opening – 13 SEP 2024, 6-8pm
13 SEP until 12 OCT 2024
GAJIN FUJITA
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
Photo: Studio Fujita
Courtesy the artist and 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 also emphasizes the tension between tradition and the present by using gold leaf for the background, as was used for precious paintings from the Orient to the Occident.