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Chim-Pom (stylized "Chim↑Pom") is an artist collective formed in Tokyo in 2005, when all the members were in their twenties. The six members are Ellie (エリイ), Ryūta Ushiro (卯城竜太), Yasutaka Hayashi (林靖高), Masataka Okada (岡田将孝), Toshinori Mizuno (水野俊紀) and Motomu Inaoka (稲岡求).[1]

The group is somewhat influenced by Makoto Aida, as three of the members had been apprentices and Ellie had modeled for him.[2] The collective has been described as "neo-Dadaist" and "the enfant terrible of Japan’s art world".[3] Many of their projects have tackled provocative social themes.[4]

History

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Chim-Pom first gained attention in 2006 with a project titled "Super Rat" (スーパー☆ラット), an installation of taxidermied rats captured from Shibuya district, which were painted to resemble Pikachu, the naming a riff on Takashi Murakami's "Superflat" reading of Japanese aesthetics.[1][5] Don't Follow the Wind is long term exhibition started in 2012.It takes place inside the inaccessible radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone formed after the nuclear disaster. Initiated by Chim↑Pom and co-developed with the curators Kenji Kubota, Eva & Franco Mattes, and Jason Waite. They collaborated with displaced local residents and includes 12 artists developing new work inside the zone: Ai Weiwei, Aiko Miyanaga, Chim↑Pom, Grand Guignol Mirai, Nikolaus Hirsch and Jorge Otero-Pailos, Kota Takeuchi, Eva & Franco Mattes, Meiro Koizumi, Nobuaki Takekawa, Ahmet Ögüt, Trevor Paglen, and Taryn Simon.

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

Awards

Public collections

Mori Art Museum (JAPAN)
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (JAPAN)
The Japan Foundation (JAPAN)
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (JAPAN)
Asia Society Museum, New York (U.S.A.)
Queensland Art Gallery (AUSTRALIA)

Publications

"SUPER RAT" (Parco Publishing, 2012)
"idea ink 03 – Geijutsu Jikkohan" (written by Chim↑Pom, Asahi Publishing, 2012)
"Chim↑Pom" (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2010)
"Why we can’t make the sky of Hiroshima 'PIKA!’?” (co-edited by Chim↑Pom and Abe Kenichi, MUJIN-TO Production, 2009)

Discography (DVD)

References

  1. ^ a b Gleason, Alan (August 2011). "Nihilist Moralists for a Traumatized Japan: Chim Pom's "Real Times"". artscape Japan. Dai Nippon Printing. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  2. ^ ""Art Cannot Be Powerless": An interview with Ryuta Ushiro". PBS Frontline. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  3. ^ Liddell, C. B. (8 November 2011). "Art guerrillas Chim Pom stage show in a box". CNN. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  4. ^ Kondo, Hidenori (5 May 2010). "TS57 : Chim↑Pom". Tokyo Source (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Super Rat". Archived from the original on 16 April 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2015.
  6. ^ "Home | Schedule and Program". Archived from the original on 3 August 2017. Retrieved 3 August 2017.

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