"Mythopoeia" by Yoshitaka Amano @ Mizuma Gallery, Singapore (June 7-July 14)
Famed Japanese artist, character designer, illustrator Yoshitaka Amano is in town for his first solo exhibition named "Mythopoeia", with the show launched June 7th at Mizuma Gallery, and courtesy of Keh Choon Wee, we have some snaps to share of artwork on display (used with kind permission), with the show exhibiting thru July 14th, 2013. Amano is famous for his illustrations for Final Fantasy, designs for Gatchman, and as well illustrated Neil Gaiman's Sandman: The Dream Hunters in 2000 (Read more via Wiki).
PRESS: 'Mythopoeia is the first solo exhibition in Singapore by the multitalented Japanese creator Yoshitaka Amano (61) from 7 June to 14 July 2013. The show, composed of several large and smaller automotive paint on aluminum paintings, explores the personal mythology nurturing the soul of the creative mind behind worldwide video-game success Final Fantasy.
In the present exhibition gods, heroes, androids, beasts and monsters from every corners of the space-time dimensions and beyond, burst through the pictorial surface in an explosion of acid colours to create “the universe I want to draw, one that none has ever seen; an unimaginable world, beyond time and space, where mystery, fantasy, light and darkness, everything merges in a transcendent and infinite universe” says Amano. “Mythopoeia”, as used by philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien in the 1930s, refers to the creation of mythologies by a single person.' (Read more via Mizuma.sg)
Mythopoeia by Yoshitaka Amano
7 June - 14 July 2013
Mizuma Gallery @ 22 Lock Road,
#01-34, Gillman Barracks, Singapore.
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