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Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage will participate in Tokyo Jazz Club, a limited-time cultural event. We will exhibit gravure prints from the collaborative project TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!!—a creative union between Keiichi Tanaami and Fujio Akatsuka. Additionally, we will offer items for sale, including vinyl records featuring original music by Akira Sakata.
Tokyo Jazz Club is a project that builds upon the legacy of the Basel Social Club —an independent platform established in Basel, Switzerland, in 2022.
November is a month when artists, gallerists, and art enthusiasts from around the globe gather in Japan for events such as Art Week Tokyo, DESIGNART TOKYO, and Art Collaboration Kyoto. Across eight floors of the former Capsule building in Kanda-Nishikicho, the space will feature a stage, exhibition areas, listening booths, a whiskey bar, and a game room—creating a vibrant hub for engaging with art and culture late into the night.
Tanaami was born in Tokyo in 1936, graduated from Musashino Art University, and awarded a special prize by the Japan Advertising Artists Club in 1958. Having immersed in American counterculture and pop art since the 1960s, he was an independent artist who had been actively crossing boundaries to pursue his creative endeavors, which range from animation to silk screens, manga-like illustrations, collages, experimental films, paintings, three-dimensional works, and more, without restricting himself to any medium or genre. Inspired by his encounter with Andy Warhol, he had continued to experimentally challenge the major themes tackled by contemporary art today, such as art and design, art and products, everyday beauty, and the public and art, while using the design methodology of editing to the present day. Through more than half a century of creative activities, he has gained a high reputation worldwide as one of the pioneers of pop art, which symbolizes postwar Japan. Tanaami's recent major exhibitions include Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures in Memory (2024, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo), TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!! That’ s All Right!!(2023, PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO, Tokyo)the solo exhibitions Manhattan Universe (2022, Venus Over Manhattan, New York), A Mirror of the World (2022, Nanzuka, Tokyo), Tokyo Pop Underground (2019, Jeffrey Deitch, New York), and Keiichi Tanaami (2019, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland); as well as the group exhibitions Tokyo: Art & Photography (2021, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), The World Goes Pop (2015, Tate Modern, London), International Pop (2015, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA), and many others. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Art Institute of Chicago, M+ (Hong Kong), National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.), and Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art (Berlin).