Keiichi Tanaami + Fujio Akatsuka’s "TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!! That's All Right!! " Exhibition

Just as the era of gravure printing was coming to a close at Shueisha at the end of 2021, Keiichi Tanaami in collaboration with Fujio Akatsuka created monumental gravure printed works (later titled Tanaami!! Akatsuka!! / Revolver).

However, production did not stop after this work was completed. Tanaami had dreamed of becoming a manga artist since he was a child, and the passion that had been quietly building up over the years exploded. He began his project during the COVID-19 pandemic, and by the end of 2022, he had made more than 400 reproductions of Picasso's work, along with a large variety of other works. In addition to two-dimensional works on canvas and neo-silk, he created hanging scrolls, neon art, three-dimensional works, and even a "tearoom in a face," based on the character whose face became a house in Tensai Bakabon. All these works are exhibited at Parco Museum Tokyo (Shibuya Parco 4F).

In conjunction with the exhibition, Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage has published Keiichi Tanaami’s TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!!/That's All Right!! Pre-sales will take place at the venue.

This large A3-size art book features colorful new works, primarily collaborations with Fujio Akatsuka, in which Keiichi Tanaami's imagination explodes. The cover is specially designed to transform into a large poster when opened. The power and magic of the new pictorial worlds created by Keiichi Tanaami are conveyed through the extensive use of single- and double-gate folds. In addition, Tanaami himself visited the printing site in Toyama and directly poured special-colored inks onto an offset printing press in an active form of “live printing”. (This process was conducted on December 21, 2022.) The inks overlap and mixes in the machine over time, producing pages with different printing results. It is an experimental endeavor in which each book is slightly different. The logo is stamped in gold leaf on the cloth cover. The books are finished with a codex binding that allows each page to be fully opened.

• Limited to 999 copies. Price at the venue: ¥9,990
• Due to the unique specifications of this art book, each copy is printed slightly differently. For this reason, there are no plans to sell the book in general bookstores nationwide. Please note that in the future, we plan to sell these books at galleries and select bookstores. We appreciate your understanding.

A special edition sets of the neo-silk prints and art books will be available for pre-sale at the venue.

In addition, a large art book created from misprinted gravure works and bound by Misuzudo in Nagano, Japan, with an original custom case made by Aero Concept will be on display.

Venue: Parco Museum Tokyo (Shibuya Parco 4F)
January 21 (Sat)–February 13 (Mon), 2023; 11:00 am–9:00 pm

• Admission ends 30 minutes before closing.
• The exhibition closes at 6:00 pm on the final day.
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