Taro chiezo biography

Taro Chiezo was.
Taro Chiezo is a Japanese artist based in Manhattan.
Taro Chiezo is a Japanese artist based in Manhattan.

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Taro Chiezo

Using high-tech colors and materials (including transparent Day-Glo plastic and laserdisks), Taro Chiezo created an installation that resembled a space-age playroom in which the futuristic machines and materials are synthesized into deceptively adorable art. Chiezo’s brilliance lies in describing in visual terms the immediate excitement surrounding the prepackaged technologies of television, video, the computer, and the Internet, a visual analogy for the instant (and ultimately unsatisfying) gratification available through electronic media.

The four large-scale paintings in the show featured Japanese cartoon characters found in various sites on the Net. In these oil-based collages on canvas, Chiezo created a painterly vision of jumbled computer- and televison-generated imagery and the mindlessly optimistic consumer culture that produces it. The unlikely combination of “Japanimation” with AbEx techniques and a bright, highly keyed palette of fluorescent paints can be seen as a wry comment on the status of painting itself in a world overrun with compu

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photo: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

TARO CHIEZO

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

1962 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1981-84 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 90’s and : /or 20’s PARCEL and parcel, Tokyo

2012       S-Bahn: video installation, Magic Room???, Tokyo
2008      Two Towers Phantom above Buildings, Mountain, and Water, Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo
Taro Chiezo – Posthuman Artist, Tokyo Wander Site Hongo, Tokyo
2003      Amoras Drawing, Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan
2002      Amoras Project, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo
Project Amoras Age of Meral, Sinkyone Art Space, Osaka
2001      Alien/Encounter Project, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
2000      Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya
1999      Public Ghost: New Paintings 1999, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Public Ghost: Paintings 1996-1999, Dai-ichi Life Gallery, Tokyo
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1997      Robot Love, Kirin Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo
1996      Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
1994      Galerie

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Artist

Taro Chiezo｜太郎千恵藏

BIOGRAPHY

現在はベルリンを拠点に活動
1962 　東京生まれ
1981-1984 　ニューヨーク大学 Tisch School of the Arts

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
1962 　　Born in Tokyo, Japan
1981-84 　　 New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

主な個展 / Selected Solo Exhibitions