Sweet Summer
Visual Arts
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Whitestone Gallery Hollywood Road is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Osamu Watanabe: Sweet Summer. More than 20 artworks form the artist’s career will be present at this exhibition, including three different series: “Oriental Dream”(based on Japanese traditional culture), “European Fantasy” (focused on iconic architectures and fine art), and “Life” (captured animals from the land and the sea).
Osamu Watanabe born in Yamaguchi Prefecture in 1980, graduated from the Department of Design at Tokyo Zokei University in 2003. He is known as Prince of Sweets in the art scene by creating “Resin Cream Art”: he is one of the leading figure of Japanese contemporary art, especially of “Kawaii Art” which pushes forward Japanese aesthetic of cuteness. Unlike most of other artists, Watanabe uses cream pipe as his instrument to renowned to his unique style. His fixation with all things sweet is traced back to his childhood, when his mother was teacher of a confectionary school. Sweets are always connected to his memory of happiness, which always swells inside.
Watanabe is not just an artist also a dream keeper: from the combination of Japanese artificial renditions of food display and fine art, he creates something never seen. By using of durable media such as resins that enable him to portray dynamic, collective and rhythmical designs, a long-lasting happiness appears with various expressions. Watanabe challenges also to the tradition: he produces a brand-new artwork by transforming masterpieces of van Gogh and Kano Eitoku into his own creative style.
Whitestone Gallery Hollywood Road will cordially invite you to experience this unique dulcet world in full summer of Hong Kong.
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2017" published by Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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