“Mr. Günter, The Cat Show” exhibition by Javier Calleja in Tokyo, Japan – StreetArtNews

Following passing via Almine Rech Paris with “This Is Your Fortunate Day” and his recent collaboration with Hypebeans, the prestigious coffee retailers in Hong Kong and Seoul, on June 25 Javier Calleja arrived in Tokyo to inaugurate a new solo exhibition curated by Nanzuka, “Mr. Günter, The Cat Show”.

Conceived as an installation, the exhibition options Günter Gambita, Javier Calleja and Alicia Gutiérrez’s cat. With a mischievous gaze Günter freely “walks” via the Parco Museum to make himself current in every corner of his owner’s exhibition. At the exact time, he looks to become the perfect “host” to make way for a assortment of operates that include things like new sketches, paintings, and a huge wood sculpture, never in advance of exhibited in Japan.

In addition, welcoming the website visitors, a substantial sculpture of the feline has been set up on the avenue that gives entry to Parco Museum. “I am delighted to present this crucial member of our family members in Japan”, the artist mentioned about this presentation. Javier Calleja’s get the job done is characterised by his potential to imprint shock and touches on humor in everyday facets of our day by day lives. A recognised admirer of the surrealism master René Magritte, as well as this kind of artists as Yoshitomo Nara or Chris Johanson, Calleja has been equipped to masterfully incorporate his approaches into contemporary portraiture until finding his have hallmark by means of his large eye people.

The match that he establishes concerning colors or scales and the expressions of his people or the texts that accompany the performs, is just one of the much more distinctive characteristics of Calleja’s exercise. It is this capability to facial area problems via insightful creative imagination as properly as his premise to deal with any vital aspect with positivity, that feeds the contagious fascination and empathy produced as a result of his function.

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