• Update Date: 2024.02.07
• Category: Offsite Events Talk Event

Yuichi Yokoyama x Kodama Kanazawa Talk Event

Marking a return after around a decade since the last solo exhibition, Yuichi Yokoyama’s “EARTH DAY” is gathering significant attention. As part of the exhibition, ANOAMLY will hold a talk event on February 17, Saturday.
Featuring Yokoyama himself and Kodama Kanazawa, a contemporary art curator who organized the exhibition Yuichi Yokoyama – I am depicting time: Complete Records of Neo Manga (held at the Kawasaki City Museum, 2010) into the conversation. Kanazawa also contributed a critical review to EARTH DAY, a collection of works planned to be published during the run of the exhibition.
Pre-orders of EARTH DAY are available at the talk event, and Yokoyama’s signing session is also included.

Additionally, there will be a 30-minute Q & A session within the event.
We are collecting questions and concerns you would like to discuss with Yokoyama in advance.
Attendees on the day whose questions or concerns are selected will receive an exclusive present from the artist.
We eagerly invite your participation.

Please do not miss this chance; we look forward to your visit!

Date & Time: 2024.2.17 (Sat.) 17:00 − 18:30
Speakers: Yuichi Yokoyama、Kodama Kanazawa (Curator of contemporary art)
Language: Japanese
Admission: Free
Reservation: Booking through ArtSticker
*Same-day tickets are available. However please be aware that seatings are reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis.。
Venue: ANOMALY, Tokyo
*Additionally, There will be a live stream on YouTube for this talk event. For visitors who are unable to attend on the day, please watch it via the link here.

Speakers Profile:

Yuichi Yokoyama
Yuichi Yokoyama graduated from Musashino Art University with a degree in oil painting. After his graduation, he embarked on a search for his own style of expression in painting while producing pictures of landscapes and people painted on plywood. Beginning around 2000, he widened the scope of his art to manga, which enabled him to “draw time,” and made his debut as a manga artist with the publication of New Engineering in paperback form in 2004.
Yokoyama’s distinctive style characterized by dashing lines, onomatopoeias, and characters crossing borders of gender and nationality has been termed “neo-manga” and is roundly applauded both inside and outside Japan.
So far, he has produced numerous books including PLAZA, Burning Sound, Room, ICELAND, The Room of the World Map, Baby Boom, Outdoors, Garden, and Travel. Many of them have been published in translation in countries such as France, the United States, Italy, Spain, and Russia.
Besides holding big solo exhibitions in Japan and other countries, as exemplified by “Roppongi Crossing 2007” MORI ART MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan (2007); “Aichi Triennale 2013” Aichi, Japan (2013); “Logical Emotion”, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (2014) / Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (MOCAK), Krakow, Poland (2015) / Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale), Land Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (2015); “Tiger Tateishi & Yuichi Yokoyama” Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (2016); “CHILDHOOD: Another Banana Day For The Dream-Fish” Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2018). He has participated in many international exhibitions and group shows, including “Yuichi Yokoyama Neo-Manga Archive: I am Drawing Time” Kawasaki City Museum, Kanagawa, Japan (2010); “YUICHI YOKOYAMA: WANDERING THROUGH MAPS, UNE EXPLORATION A TRAVERS LES CARTES”, Pavillon Blanc, Colomiers, France (2014).

Kodama Kanazawa
KANAZAWA Kodama is a Japanese curator of contemporary art. She got her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts and the Royal College of Art in the UK. After working for 12 years in public museums such as the Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto and Kawasaki City Museum, she began working independently in 2013. She has curated numerous exhibitions in Japan and abroad. 2017 – 2020, she also worked for Towada Art Center as Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs. CIMAM member. Co-chair of Gendai Bijutsu Online Event JP, a digital calendar of online events of contemporary art conducted in Japanese. Code-a-Machine (Kanazawa Kodama + Masui Shinichiro) co-founder and artistic director.