Contemporary Art - GALLERY GLYCINE

Akiko Takeda (1970-)

Born in Tokyo, Japan, she grew up in an artistic family with her father and sister also painters. She graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Japanese Painting Department). In 1995, while still a student, she participated in a group exhibition at the Setagaya Art Museum. After graduating, she received both the Fukui News Paper Award and the Excellence Award at the Fukui Thumbhole Art Exhibition. Inspired by Italian frescoes and icons, the application of rock pigment technique on Japanese paper became an ideal technique to present her vision of the world two-dimensionally, and have viewers bring life to their own story.

Piotre (1988-)

Piotre, or Pierre Ygouf’s alias, is a french artist, born in Caen and trained in design at Paris. Initially struck and shaped by street art and « Throw up », his graphic experiments lead him under Keith Harring’s, Speddy’s and André’s figurative influences. Partly applying Bauhaus’s codes, his work is taking shape of a more abstract approach on colours, following Di Rosa’s, JonOne’s or Cop2 tracks. Prolific Painter, multiplying supports and crossed collaborations, he is developing his vision as well in the proliferation of black and white patterns, composed artworks halfway between comics strip and Jeröme Bosch’s paintings, as in more abstract researches on the confrontation of primary colours, creating graphic chimeras who inhabit his world. On his canvases, which set on an endless universe in expansion, or on walls that he approaches as creations fully integrated in their environment, he questions incessantly the frontiers of our daily routine, inviting the spectators to extend his own experience.

Mr Brainwash (1966-)

Thierry Guetta (1966-), best known by his moniker Mr. Brainwash, is a French-born Los Angeles–based street artist. According to the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Guetta was a proprietor of a used clothing store, and amateur videographer who was first introduced to street art by his cousin, the street artist Invader, and who filmed street artists through the 2000s and became an artist in his own right after an off-hand suggestion from Banksy.

Mr Doodle (1944-)