Yosuke Ueno's "Negative Never Again"
Written by Ken   
Friday, 09 July 2010 21:16


It's been almost five years since Yosuke Ueno's last solo show stateside, and for good reason.  With his contributions to the traveling show, "The Animamix Biennial", visiting the MOCA Shanghai, MOCA Taipei, MOCA Kaohsiung, and the Today Art Museum in Beijing, Ueno's been quite busy to say the least.  When we last visited Yosuke in HF Vol. 10, Jen Pappas stated that "It's only a matter of looking, or perhaps a better word is seeing, and taking pleasure in the pieces offered before this puzzle begins to speak for itself.  When working in symbols so perceptively designed, and so thoroughly imagined, everything takes on meaning..."  For Ueno's latest, expect no different, 'Bittersweet' (pictured above) is rife with symbology, both personal and cultural.  From the All Seeing Eye, to the mushroom cloud (perhaps a reference to the ironically named "Little Boy"), expect to look hard and long into Yosuke's work and to be surprised every time you spot something new.  "Negative Never Again" opens tonight at Thinkspace Gallery in Culver City.







 

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