GEISAI#2 Photo Report

  • The Jun Miura Award and Yoshimoto Kogyo Award both went to The Peanuts Brothers. A double win!
  • MAYA MAXX gave her award to Kaoru Yamazaki, whose paintings had a stoic feel.
  • The painting unit, “Uriichan Sakuchan” received the Yoshitomo Nara Award.
  • Takashi Murakami gave his prize to the “TOKYO FM” booth. What looks like sliced ham here is actually packaged cd’s!
  • Naritaka Satoh, winner of the Liquitex Award. Like the gold prize winner, he is a graduate of Tokyo University of the Arts.
  • Potato Han, winner of the grand prix at the original Geijutsu Dojo event. In a pun, he has nicknamed himself Jaga(potato)iro.
  • GEISAI-1金賞の西尾さんも出展。
  • Previously an exhibitor at GEISAI#1, Shintaro Miyake this time was featured at Tomio Koyama’s booth. Here we see him showing off his Star Wars tinged heart.
  • At the Kaikai Kiki booth, Rei Sato, who had previously been seen at GEISAI#1, exhibited and sold out her art works.
  • Joji Matsumoto, awarded the Noi Sawaragi and Takashi Murakami prizes At GEISAI#1, once again employed board games as performance art.
  • GROOVISIONS exhibited a “banzai paint” Chappie.Terrific!
  • MAYA MAXX holding a near non-stop live painting session.