Jimmy YOSHIMURA
As a member of the young generation of Japanese artists, Jimmy Yoshimura stands out with his interesting representations of characters from different eras. Combining the past and the present, cartoonish subjects and real people from old photographs, Yoshimura makes impressive images, creating new kind of portrait. His work mostly indicates the influences of the western world. Using the traditional language and familiar subjects, his characters are the reflection of changes in Japanese society and culture. Excepting western customs and visual identity they become distorted persons, captured between their ancestors and foreign propaganda……
(Exhibition History after the Biography…)
As a member of the young generation of Japanese artists,Jimmy Yoshimura stands out with his interesting representations of characters from different eras. Combining the past and the present, cartoonish subjects and real people from old photographs, Yoshimura makes impressive images, creating new kind of portrait. His work mostly indicates the influences of the western world. Using the traditional language and familiar subjects, his characters are the reflection of changes in Japanese society and culture. Excepting western customs and visual identity they become distorted persons, captured between their ancestors and foreign propaganda.
Conjoining Tradition and Modern Estetics
After his studies in Industrial Design, Yoshimura began his career in advertising design agency. At the same time, he took an interest in painting which determined his further preoccupations. Discovering his own talent, he started to produce his characteristic paintings representing portraits of Japanese women form different ages and centuries. Using the old black-and-white photographs portraying ancestral scenes and different images of Harajuku girls form nowadays, Yoshimura creates the unique combination of that two, transferring the compositions on canvas. Applying the simple pencil drawings of manga characters that are characteristic of the more recent Japanese tradition, he emphasized their role of intermediate between past and present.
Western Influences in Japanese Culture
Jimmy Yoshimura’s work has been exhibited in numerous shows in Japan and abroad. His seductive and disturbing paintings depict not so attractive changes in society where western influences took over all aesthetic and ethical principles. Photographs of ancestors invoke the old, traditional ideals and in combination with modern make-upped girls with vividly colored hair style and pierced faces represents the contrast of total opposites, although both belong to the same people. Manga characters seem like the mediation between them, the carriers of tradition in contemporary times. Transferring the message or maybe having the conversation with each other, every figure has the inscription in a cloud that refers to their mutual connection.
Promoting the True Values
As a member of Crazy Noodles, Tokyo organization which promotes the creative activities of young Japanese artist who integrate pop culture into their artworks, Yoshimura stands out with his mixture of traditional and modern customs. Working between Tokyo and Paris, those artists are trying to find their piece of recognition, revealing and promoting Japanese culture on very distinctive way. Transferring his unusual combination of images into the canvas, Yoshimura connects the incompatible. Emphasizing these differences, he indicates the ruinous influences of the western culture.
Exhibitons List :
2016
KAWAI Show , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Permanent Exhibition , Galerie Alain Daudet , Toulouse , France
Crazy noodles gang !!!!! , Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Collective Show, Guerrero Gallery , Miami, USA
Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Collective Show , LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Nippon Neo Pop Show, ZK Gallery , San Francisco, USA
CrazyNoodles Show , Gallerie Ariel Jakob , Paris , France
Colorfull, Guerrero Fine Art , Barcelona, Sitges, Spain
Permanent Exhibition, TRIBES gallery, Tel Aviv , Israel
2015
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Dubai , Dubai , UAE
PandaSan and friends , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Permanent show , Gallery Bel Air Fine Art , Crans Montana, Switzerland
Icons PartII , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Magnificient Contemporary Art , Opera Gallery Hong Kong , Hong Kong , China CrazyNoodles Show, Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Collective Show, LTBart Gallery , Ciudad de Mexico , Mexico.
2014
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Hong Kong ,Hong Kong , China
Pop Sculptures , Opera Gallery Paris, Paris , France.
ColorFull , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris, France
Collective Show , Opera Gallery Singapore , Singapore
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Icons , Gallery 32 , TelAviv , Israel
Collective Show , Galerie Absolute , Saint Paul de Vence , France
This is Tokyo , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Permanent Exhibition , BelAirFineArt Geneve , Geneve , Switzerland
Opening Show LTBart Gallery, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Permanent Exhibition , Galerie Alain Daudet , Toulouse , France
2013
Permanent Exhibition Sculptures , Galerie SIBMAN , Paris France.Nippon Pop Show , SIBMAN Gallery , Paris , France
Opening Collective Show , Gallery32 , telAviv, Israel.
Mad Show , Maddog Gallery , Ibiza , Spain
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
2012
Pop Art Show , Luca Fine Art , Verbier , Switzerland
Pop Show , Gallery Bel Air Fine Art , Crans Montana, Switzerland.
CrazyNoodles Show , Gallerie Ariel Jakob , Paris , France
Permanent Presentation , Happy Art Gallery , Cannes , France
Permanent Exhibition Sculptures , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris France.
AnyWhichWay , Galerie BelAirFineArt , Geneve , Geneve , Switzerland.
2011
Collective Show, Rize Art Gallery, Naarden, The Netherlands
Collective Show , Galerie Alain Daudet, Toulouse , France
CrazyNoodles Show , Galerie Marie Ricco , Calvi , France
Pop Art Show , Galerie des Lices, Saint Tropez , France.
Collective Show , Absolute Gallery, Brugge , Belgium.
Show CrazyNoodles , Sibman Gallery , Paris ,France
ColorFull , Galerie Ariel Sibony , Paris France.
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 28 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2010
Nippon Neo Pop in Paris, Galerie Jacob Paulett, Paris, France
Manga in Amsterdam, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Nippon Collective Show, Galerie Ariel Jakob, Paris, France
CrazyColors , Opera GALLERY, Paris, France
LILLE ART FAIR (ARTFAIR), Palais des Expositions de Lille, Lille, France
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 26 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
2009
Nippon 2009, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
From Kyoto to Tokyo, Collective Show, Galerie JacobPaulett, Paris France
The World ... a Cartoon, Willem Kerseboom Gallery, Amsterdam , The Netherlands
Shogun in PokemonLand, Opera GALLERY, Geneva, Switzerland
ARTPARIS (ARTFAIR), GrandPalais, Paris, France
ARTAMSTERDAM (ARTFAIR),RAI Edition 25 , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
SCOPE BASEL(ARTFAIR), KASERN Basel, Basel, Switzerland
SCOPE NEW YORK (ARTFAIR), 355 West 36th Street, New York, USA
SLICK PARIS (ARTFAIR), le 104, Paris, France
2008
NeoPop Made in JAPAN, Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris, France
Tokyo Express, Opera Gallery, London, UK
Inside Japan, La 5eme Galerie, Paris, France
Wonderland, , Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Opera Gallery, Hong Kong, China
ARTLONDON (ARTFAIR), Royal Hospital, London, UK