yusuke asai stretches hand painted web within tokyo gallery

yusuke asai stretches hand painted web within tokyo gallery
all photos by ichiro mishima

yusuke asai: creating here
arataniurano, tokyo
now through december 20th, 2014

although he typically chooses to work with organic mediums like mud, japanese artist yusuke asai continues his practice of large-scale, painted installations with paper and marker at arataniurano gallery in tokyo. from now until december 20th, 2015, asai suspends ‘creating here’ above visitors to the art space.

vibrantly colored blue illustrations, rich with abstract geometric patterning and floral and animal symbols, are delineated onto long white canvasses that stretch from the surrounding walls to the floor like a spider’s web. the work extends the surfaces outward towards the audience, enveloping them within the saturated, hand-drawn expanse. imagery of birds, foxes and lizards are carefully interwoven into the realized design, which overall comprises a dense and mesmerizing landscape of imaginary creatures and botanical motifs.

 a dense and mesmerizing landscape of imaginary creatures and botanical motifs is rendered in the gallery

long white canvasses stretch from the surrounding walls to the floor like a spider’s web

birds, foxes and lizards are carefully interwoven into the realized design

the work extends the surfaces outward towards the audience

the artist suspends ‘creating here’ above visitors within the space

the installation continues onto the surface of the floor

the installation in tokyo has been carefully illustrated with paper and marker

floral motifs span the gallery walls

a dense series of imaginary creatures and botanical symbols takes shape within the gallery

layers on canvas stretch the walls outwards towards the viewer