Okuuchi Kano | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Okuuchi Kano
- France
Painter
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Whether it's in Mad, Dr. No or Woman, the stereotypical images make sense for everyone. From close-up or afar, there are several keys to enter each piece.
Having developed a practice as a pair with her husband Olivier Broise, a secondary school art teacher, since 2007, the Japanese artist Kano Okuuchi engages in a reinterpretation of films, adverts and cartoons from the 1950s and 1970s in her compositions. The couple's idea is to revive a collective visual memory by acting of the unconscious and by provoking reminiscence from universal imagery. Revisiting popular imagery, Kano Okuuchi enjoys common references and aesthetic stereotypes in order to propose unique compositions, both new and steeped in everyone's memory.
The pieces by Kano Okuuchi are inspired by the aesthetic of vintage adverts, old American comics and pin-up imagery. Working with collage, painting and the technique of transfer, the artist rigorously orchestrates her compositions. From existing images that she changes and transforms, Kano Okuuchi creates a new fictional territory, a "Frankenstein" style invention in her own words. The artist pre-visualises her canvases on a computer in order to anticipate the different interventions, the different layers of paint, the different stages of the collage. The backgrounds, mainly made up of recovered posters inscribe the process in the tradition of famous poster designers from the 1960s and French New Realism, all the while affirming the vintage spirit of 1950s and 1960s American advertising.
- France :
- Russian Federation (the) :
- 2015Group exhibition at the Open Art GalerieDijon, France
- 2007Pair working with her husband Olivier BroiseHer workshop, France
- 1987First personal exhibitionat the Voice GalleryKyoto, Japan
- 1964BirthKochi, Japan
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77 Artworks
Okuuchi Kano
The Lonely Rider
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADOkuuchi Kano
Maginger Z
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADOkuuchi Kano
Godzilla
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADOkuuchi Kano
Mmm
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADOkuuchi Kano
Nr 399211
13 x 13 cm239 CADOkuuchi Kano
Don't panic
36 x 36 cm999 CADOkuuchi Kano
BLOO
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Iroman
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Deep space
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GIRL'S POWER
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Spring in Japan
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DON'T WASTE FOOD
25 x 25 cm589 CADOkuuchi Kano
5 bombes
19 x 19 cm359 CADOkuuchi Kano
The side up
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TOUCHE !
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The guts
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Always open
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Tackle
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADOkuuchi Kano
Splash !
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Black hole
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Help!
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ROCKET A
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Hurry!
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VICTORY
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Tasty
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Rocket
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Chat noir
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LONELY HUNTER
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Joie
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The phantom
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Cocorico
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ATOMIC PISTOL
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Castrol
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RAS
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Good boy
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Super giant
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French fries
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BAT BEAM
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Vert
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Icecream
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Portrait
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Painkillers 2
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F3#01
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Lone rider
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Overheat
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Rumination
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Secret
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Original
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BOOM !
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Positive face
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Battle
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Blue hair
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Okuuchi Kano
ULTRAMAN VS KAIJU
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Double admiral
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The bowl
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Robot
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CATWOMAN
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KAIJU JAPAN
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THE DARK KNIGHT
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Sun
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