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Ryoko WATANABE was born in 1973 in Sapporo, in Northern Japan.
After graduating from Design School, Ryoko Watanabe worked for several years as a freelance computer graphics professional in several design studios of her hometown before venturing on her independent artist career. Ryoko paints the traditional and powerful stereotyped characters of Japan such as the sumotori, geisha or samurai, in front of a detailed black and white crowed. She produces unique and creative concept that nurtures from the Japan culture and yet appears in her work in a different perceptive taking popular culture, as she knows it and integrating it into her works.
Watanabe folds a powerful combination of traditionnal culture with an upbeat modernist life style. Watanabe's work really instills the viewer with a juxtaposition of ancestral characters and todays urban scenes.
Ryoko Watanabe is definitly a refreshing talent in Japan's contemporary scene.
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