Mizuma Gallery - Singapore

I had a real crush on the exhibition ART BIT MATRIX TOKUSATSU to VIDEOGAMES at Mizuma Gallery.

It wasn’t a photography show but a plunge into a parallel universe, a jubilant and uninhibited dialogue between painting, Japanese pop culture, video games and contemporary art.

Mizuma Gallery

Everything here celebrates the pixel, the light, and the art of subversion.

It carries that unmistakable tone of Japanese pop art, mixing the sacred and the trivial, nostalgia and technology.

I loved this blend of irreverence and depth. The works play with codes, break them apart, yet retain the precision of line and gesture so present in traditional Japanese art.

Where’s Godzilla ? Hayaki Nishigaki

Here, a diptych playfully pastiches the elegance of Edo screens, sneaking in a mischievous, almost endearing Godzilla.

There, a blue painting looks like it was born from an indie game, somewhere between pixel art and digital meditation.

Mandala Verse, Takakurakazuki

A mandala filled with yokai and digital avatars traces the contours of a world where the sacred takes the shape of a video game.

The whole exhibition feels joyful, irreverent, yet perfectly controlled, one foot rooted in tradition, the other stepping into the future.