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Fortune Apr 2005
April 9, 2005 © Lunarbase, Inc. All rights reserved. 2004. |
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Opening: Fri, Apr. 8, 6-9PM"Fortune"
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Lunarbase is pleased to present a three person show "Fortune" by Yoshiaki Asai, Chaval, and Patrick Dorian, featuring paintings and 3D figures, depicting the unexplainbale driving force in life.More than most contemporary art movements, these artists' visionary worlds represent the underbelly of current day popular culture for what it truly is: a thought altering, time and space machine to nowhere fast. To bring their visions into reality, these three young artists from different continents take an unconscious collective approach: a fixation with parallel worlds inhabited by conceptual characters. The narrative is enhanced by implantations from comic books, video games, and cartoons.This show is an attempt to find a vision of our future civilizations by examining the common in current day popular culture on a global scale. These young artists fearlessly stretch the boundary between the two and three dimensional picture planes, and suggest the possibility of how art can be a reality when it is recreated in the viewer's mind based on perception. |
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Yoshiaki Asai
Fortune Man, Sushe Girl, and Peace Yoshiaki Asai focuses his attention on a series of characters, from the finger character "Peace" carrying a teardrop eyeball in front and a peace message on its back, to Sushe: a socially confused and very spoiled high school girl. Asai's characters live in a flat world, maintained by angular patterns and irregular edges. His palette is primal, and his narratives reactive or specific to his characters. Asai's Other Works |
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Yoshiaki Asai |
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Chaval Chaval's two main, post chemical war mutants are Pipu, a miraculous mutant butterfly, and Pepo a happy-go-lucky subservient walking pet. these two creatures play out numerous, vaporous fantasies that take the viewer through every emotion from love to lamentation; to peril and peace. For this show, his characters are placed in Zodiac signs controlling the horoscopes that we follow as guidance for decisions. Chaval's Other Works | |
Chaval |
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| Patrick Dorian Pirates and the Unfortunate Art serves as a record of events, or a diary for Patrick Dorian. He situates the narrative in an adventurous story of pirates going after gold, somewhat similar to modern life. His pirate characters are named after his friends and people who have affected him, like Loi, Pete, Sally, etc. , and they act as heroes or villains, and sometimes clowns. This allows him to accommodate his search for beauty in the grotesque and humor in the depraved. Dorian's Other Works |
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Patrick Dorian |
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