1975 I was born in Kyoto Japan, and grew up in Kyoto.
1994-1998 Kyoto Seika University design manga class.
1997 Established design team"button" activities in Kyoto and Tokyo.
1999 Geaduated from Kyoto Seika University, Work as freelance designer,T-shirts design, graphic design and web design.
2003 Moved my activities to Berlin, participated some group exhibitions.
2004 Got interest in live painting on Karneval der kultur Berlin, Started live painting performance with hagemiho as "Dropshadows", mainly activities in Taheles.
2005 Live painting some events in Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, and at the same time, stearted live painting + visual work with his hand made device called "Guruguru Kun".
2006 Improved "Guruguru Kun" and performed at Bastard, Pefferbank Berlin. then started VJ work,turntable animation featuring obake (ghost) character with "Guruguru Kun".
2007 I participated to ODD as VJ and made PV of the music.
2008 VJ work at Eschschloraque(Berlin),KANIMANI(Berlin), "Ohayo Japan! 2008" in Spinnwerk,Leipzig and "AKROPOLISMULTIMEDIALE" in Palac Akropolis(Praha).
Chuuu was born in Kyoto Japan 1975.His base is now in Berlin.Because of his environment of childhood he had a strong awareness of freedom,creation and making things by himself. He was good in his hands since he was a child,cutting his rubber-robots into pieces and put different pieces together and making a new robot,uncoil a small motor and extend it to make a faster motor,create a small light for playing games in the dark.Since his uncle was an artist he had many chances to see paintings and printings,spontaneously,he started to draw pictures and manga by himself.While majoring manga in Kyoto Seika University (the only university that has manga major in Japan) he bought a computer, learned himself how to use applications and studied design on his own. After graduation,he worked independently by designing and painting. 2003 moved to Berlin and now he is here as an artist.
About his works
Chuuu,the theme of his works are nostalgia-ism and reconstitution.In his paintings and drawings,influenced by Lautrec,Beardsly,Saul Bass,Japanese Ukiyoe and Leonardo da Vinci's sketches,he expresses nostalgia by using techniques such as scraping and scaling paints,use dry impasto material to make crack surface,dye 60 years old paper with tea and use flat touches and intentionally unshaded image.Adding modern elements of manga and anime on those,that is his work.Mostly the background image is blank to accentuate the line of the body or shape.He uses Acrylics,Gouache,Aquarelle,Ink,Colored pencil,Tea,Oil,Magazines and more.
In his video works with the same theme,he made an animation system by using the technique zoetrope(invented by William Horner in 1834) and stroboscope,a turntable that DJ uses and a video camera combination." Turntable Animation" is the name of this animation system,he turns his 12 inch record shape hand-drawing,collage,printed works on a turntable.He has been performing this " Turntable Animation"performance in many different places.Above all,the loop animation of circularized notes is a video performance that is like spinning around the musical notation that has been originated in Europe from the 17th century and John Cage and Marcel Duchamp on a DJ turntable.
2012.07.19-22 "Playground AV 2012" at SAKOG | KULTURWERK, Oberosterreich, Austria
Group Exhibition - NOW IS NOW!
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2012.06.01 "Directors Lounge" at Contemporary Art Ruhr (C.A.R.) - The Media Art Fair, Essen
2012.05.30 "FocusDiversion4.0 - Noize dinner" at Goldener Saal in Tacheles, Berlin
FocusDiversion4.0/ / Kunsthaus Tacheles/May 30 2012/ Our Time Nyc-Berlin.