~AYA TAKANO/update

Aya Takano

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AYA TAKANO at the opening of ‘Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture’,
Japan Society, April 7, 2005
& one of her paintings from that show.
Photos: Nancy Smith

an item on AYA TAKANO first posted on THE BOMB – MARCH 20, 2006.

we can’t get out of our head the buzz that recently surfaced about Ms. Takano from the recent ARMORY ART FAIR 2007, in a NEW YORK TIMES article (published March 3, 2007) – that chronicled the art buying adventures of “new” collector SUSAN HANCOCK.

Her first stop at the fair: ” . . . Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, which is based in
Paris and represents the Japanese artist Aya Takano. Ms. Hancock has been collecting Ms. Takano’s paintings, cartoonish and colorful, for two years.
” … she had already committed to purchasing one large painting.
” … The piece, ‘Stuffed Animal Room’, cost $70,000.
” … “I’m in love with all her paintings, but there were alot … that were very sexually explicit, and I have a bunch of neices who come to visit,” Ms. Hancock said. “The stuffed animals are a lot safer.”

more photos from ‘Little Boy: The Arts of Japan’s Exploding Subculture’,
Japan Society, April 7, 2005
(scroll down – photos start on row: 11)

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin (Paris)