Soap Bubbles

Harumi Yamaguchi

Soap Bubbles, 1979Price on Request
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
acrylic on board, framedProject Native InformantLondon
Description
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The artwork features a surreal and whimsical composition against a vibrant red backdrop. Numerous transparent bubbles float around, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. The central figure, a woman with striking green hair, emerges from a bathtub-like structure, evoking a sense of playfulness and imagination. The artwork employs a unique blend of realism and abstraction, with the clear bubbles and the woman's detailed features contrasting with the flat, monochromatic background. The artist's intention may be to challenge conventional notions of reality and invite the viewer to explore the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary. ...

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Harumi Yamaguchi
Artist
Harumi Yamaguchi
1941, Japanese

A leading name in the world of Japanese advertising, she pioneered the highly dramatic but elusively flat airbrush aesthetic closely associated with commercial illustration. Harumi Yamaguchi’s practice places her in the vanguard of new painterly practices and as a celebrated documenter of an emerging feminist aesthetic from the 1970s onwards. Born in Matsue in the Shimane prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in oil painting. She began her career as a freelance illustrator, spearheading the advertising for the renowned retail establishment PARCO. From its outset, PARCO was established to combine a commercial retail establishment with a cultural facility, combining platforms such as museums, theatres, and publishing in addition to retail. Yamaguchi’s role as engineer of the project’s mise-en-scène places her in the centre of art and design in Japan. As one of the original gyaru — commonly known also as “Shibuya Girls” rising from out ūman ribu or the feminist movements of the 1970s and generally applied to professionally-empowered but trend-conscious young women— Yamaguchi’s position at PARCO gave her license to portray an emerging cosmopolitan woman, liberated from the vestiges of traditional femininity and empowered through consumerism to define her own individuality. “Harumi’s gals” are often active and in motion — be it throwing a ball or swimming in a crystal blue pool — and returning the gaze of the viewer. As Chizuko Ueno noted in her essay published in connection to “Women of the 70s PARCO Poster Exhibition 1969-1986”, an exhibition that took place at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, “while appearing to adhere to the scenario of male-tailored eroticism, Yamaguchi deconstructs male desire through her exaggerative depictions. As a consequence, the female body is idealised to a realm unreachable by male hands”. ...

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Glass, Summer and Woman
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Pink Sheets
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Dripping
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Dryer
Harumi YamaguchiDryer, 1977Price on Request
Lying on Ice
Harumi YamaguchiLying on Ice, 1979Price on Request
Peeking Lady
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Fight Mode
Harumi YamaguchiFight Mode, 1976Price on Request
Megaphone
Harumi YamaguchiMegaphone, 1975Price on Request
Banana Picture with Lady
Harumi YamaguchiBanana Picture with Lady, 1982Price on Request
Emerald Dream
Harumi YamaguchiEmerald Dream, 1981Price on Request
Rita Hayworth
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Coca Cola
Harumi YamaguchiCoca Cola, 1976Price on Request
Big Court
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Yagasuri (arrow pattern)
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Soap Bubbles
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Project Native Informant
Gallery
Project Native Informant
London

Contemporary art gallery established in 2013 with a strong interest in expanded institutional critique. Project Native Informant works with 16 artists and collectives, producing 5-6 exhibitions per year and hosting performances, concerts, talks and events.