artists for streetsummit 2023 Dotmasters & Hisamura Taku
Dotmasters
UK artist, started painting on the streets of Brighton in the early ’90s. He takes a sideways look at a populist media with a typically English sense of humour. His work is impeccably detailed – his half-tone work, stark black and white street pieces and unique, photo-real colour stencils all create street-based illusions that fool the eye. Invited to take part in Banksy’s ‘Cans Festival’ and featuring in the Oscar-nominated ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, The Dotmaster exhibits internationally.
A driving force behind the Nuart festival in Norway, he has collaborated with grass roots activists, luxury brands, Glastonbury festival, weirdos, developers and drop outs. There is NO subculture ONLY subversion.
Work has been shown at the Cabaret Voltaire, CH, ICA, UK, kunstnernes Hus, NO, Museum of modern art Gulbenkian foundation, PT and London Underground.
Hisamura Taku
Born in Tokyo, 1977. In 2003, inspired by a lecture at Todo School, which I happened to listen to, he began presenting his work. From handmade to DIY craft, I actively choose techniques and materials that are considered to be on the periphery of art, and produces works that are barely viable through the art system, while changing them with a reductive ways.
Recent major solo exhibitions include: “Homemade Sculpture” (AI KOWADA GALLERY, Tokyo, 2016), “Repeat Play”(NADiff Window Gallery, Tokyo, 2020), “One Point Sculptures”(GALLERY ROOM•A, Tokyo, 2021), “One Point Sculptures”(SOMSOC GALLERY, Tokyo, 2022). Recent maijor exhibitions includes: “26th UBE Biennale”(Tokiwa Park, Ube, 2015), “Contemporary Sculptor from JAPAN” (Open House at Central Embassy, Bangkok, 2017), “Dogo Onsenart 2018” (Dogo Onsen and its surroundings, Ehime, 2018), “On the Verge of Fiction” (Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, 2019), “Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021″(Across the 4 wards – Chiyoda City, Chuo City, Bunkyo City, and Taito City – of the Northeastern area of central Tokyo, 2021), “Renew-LAB to begin in the future”(Art-lab Sagamihara, 2021), “Organizing Daily Life”(Hajimari art center, Fukushima, 2022) and more.
