Artist Takahiro Komuro Unveils Trippy Wooden Sculptures in Tokyo

As part of an exhibition titled “Vortex.”

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Tokyo-based sculptor Takahiro Komuro just launched a new exhibition at Ginza Tsutsaya Books Atrium in Japan. Titled “Vortex,” the presentation spotlights life-sized wooden sculptures of surrealist and psychedelic subjects including dragons, two-headed female subjects, and alien-like creatures painted in vivid colors. With this show, the artist aims to subvert religious iconography while introducing figures that may be relics for worship in parallel dimensions.

“In ‘Vortex,’ creatures with an unusual scale from another world are appearing in front of us by using the media of sculpture. Energies of sculptures transcending the time and space are pulling us into the spectacle of different worlds,” said the artist in a statement.

View the exhibition and select works above. “Vortex” is on view until August 25.

For more sculptural works, take a look at Mark Jenkins’ latest outdoor interventions as part of the Rose Beton street art festival in Toulouse, France.

Ginza Tustaya Books Atrium
GINZA SIX 6F,6-10-1
Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tokyo 104-0061
Japan

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