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Artists' Profile

Daniela Comani / Italy

She is an Italian artist who was born in Bologna, 1965. She entered Academia di Belaldi in Bologna, after graduated from there, she interested in oriental culture. When West Germany and East Germany unified before long, she moved to Berlin. While she was studying abroad at HDK (Berlin College of Art), she experienced a cycle of political change. Afterward, she had been elected the exchange student to the Fine Arts, Surikow Institut. When she came back to Berlin, she entered HDK again. Now, she has been living in Berlin since she graduated there, and continues to create artworks. She got well the relationship between inner side of human and sex, and created artworks, which was named “Double-Drawing”. In her late artworks, she took a photograph herself, and acted both sex. It is an approach that reveal a principle of gender.

Irene Murphy / Ireland

She is an Irish artist who was born in 1962. She had graduated the Cork Art College, and established the C.A.C. (Cork Artist Collective) with artists who lived in Cork. She created many art works at C.A.C., that is ground of her activities. In early times, she made drawings, afterward she created a installation that inquired into a relationship between daily life and beauty. In recent years, she did a performance using her body, and held exhibition in Amos Anderson Art museum, in Finland.

Mick O’Shea / Ireland

He is an Irish artist who was born in Cork, 1958. After he graduated in physics at Cork Institute of Technology (C.I.T.), he intended to be an artist. That is a different point from other artists. He is also a founding director of C.A.C. He has been distinguished that he takes the knowledge of science, like physics and chemistry, in his representation, and psychology and sense of human are enhanced to higher field by using technology. In recent years, He created “Noise Music” by his original techniques. He has held the concert with his friends in many EU countries.

Kenji Endo / Japan

Born Saitama prefecture, 1967. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University and completed graduate studies at the Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music. Endo's work since has focused primarily on the solid figurative arts. In 1999 he was awarded the Musashino Art University Paris Award and traveled to France on the grant from the Award and Japan Foundation. He joined artist-in-residence programs in Berlin in 2000 and in Ireland in 2001 and has pursued ambitious creative activities in Japan and overseas, including one-man exhibitions in Japan.

Hironari Kubota / Japan

He is a Japanese artist who was born in Nagano Prefecture, 1974. He graduated from Musashino Art University graduate school Art and Design, and migrated to France supported by Paris award which held in Musashino Art University. His main subject of art works is “Pharos”, which is concerned with sexual organ worship, and did various representation, for example, execution of sexual organ of male, participation of Suwa-Onbasira-festival. In France, denying his concept of execution, He had tattooed on his back. He has been creating artworks energetically, for example, to hold the exhibition himself in Mexico, to win a prize in world meeting of sculpture of linga in Korea, to make artworks in Germany and France, and so on.

Hideki Nakazawa / Japan

He is a Japanese artist who was born in Niigata Prefecture, 1963. He graduated from the Medical Dept. of Chiba University, and worked as an ophthalmologist for a few years afterward. However, he made a comeback to art which he had always pursued since his school days. What he chose at that time was commercial illustrations. He introduced a pop sense to the early-stage computer graphics, and also showed his talent in making CD-ROMS. However, he turned to a pure artist in 1997, and thereafter, he created logical works in succession using letters or go-stones. In 2000, he published “Method Painting, Method Poem, Method Music (Methodicism Manifesto)” under the observation of a poet and a musician. In 2002, he participated in the program of ISCP, New York, sponsored by the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for artist. He wrote a hand-written book, “Text on Modern Art History”, that was published by Tom’s Box. And he obtained patents of “Device for processing a 3-D image” and “Solid Object Generation” both in Japan and the U.S.A.

WoongJong, Yoo / Korea

Woong- Jong Yoo is Korean artist who was born in Seoul in 1972. When he was student, his major was surrounding sculptures. He graduated from the Seoul municipal University and completed a postgraduate. His master’s thesis’s title is “The Study about Man Ray’s Production of Work of Art”. After he finished the master’s course, he doubted an established theory of sculpture. Being conscious of a field of natural environment, he started producting works of art that contains anti-sculptural expression. And he took a course in picture at Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Italia on a scholarship. In December 2004, he wrote a thesis, Nomadism of the Art, and got a diploma. He expresses relationships between society and an individual by mainly video installation. And he is involved in artistic activity in Korea and Milan. Now he is lecturer of installation at the Seoul municipal University.

Jacqueline Hassink / the Netherlands

Jacqueline Hassink was born in Enschede, Netherlands, in 1966. She studied photograph in Hague Royal Academy of Arts in Rotterdam. In the series of “Queen Bees”, she compares private space and public one of women who reached the top of the economic world. She uses very conceptual ways to search for the problems in the social framework such as individual and commonalty. She held an exhibition at Colette in Paris and took part in the photograph’s festival in Arles. Now she lives and works activity in the USA and Europe, and teaches at Harvard University as an invited artist.

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