The winning bid for Takuma Tanaka's work "No War!" Sold at Yahoo Auction the other day is 202,000 yen.
We have sent the full amount to Ukraine and will report it here.
It is YouTube that we asked the customers who purchased the work what they thought.
This YouTube is about Takuma Tanaka overcoming the handicap and contributing to the society that he has taken care of in the future.
Please have a look.
"The atmosphere of the underground studio is very good and the location is good. This space
There are quite a few people who want to use it temporarily. "
Therefore, if you wish, we will start a service to rent Tanaka Takuma Studio on an hourly basis.
We will cooperate with the production of a special time like no other.
Please contact us for details such as time zone and price.
tanakatakuma.official@gmail.com
We also accept studio tours.
At Tanaka Takuma Studio, we only want many people to see and buy various services, and we don't want to sell them. However, for those who come for the first time, we received a voice saying that even if you want to enter, you will not have the courage to enter the studio, which also sells expensive works in the basement.
Therefore, we decided to charge 100 yen as an admission fee, and instead, we could relax for about an hour and serve tea and sweets. This is because it is better to pay for it, as in the case of a mini-museum, to prevent customers from bringing souvenirs or being overwhelmed and difficult to enter.
That's why we will create an environment that makes it easy for everyone to come with an admission fee of 100 yen for a while.
I was taking the old bar exam, which was originally unrelated to art. However, I overheard the bar examination and got sick due to stress. As a result, I stopped the bar examination. Also, I was mentally depressed and almost impossible to recover, so I started painting with rehabilitation.
At first, it wasn't an incomprehensible idea to make painting a main business. Inspired by the sale of the oil paintings I wrote on a piece of paper for 1,000 yen, which I happened to sell on the street, I started selling paintings. Mostly on the street. It's been over 15 years ago. After that, overcoming the global recession of subprime mortgages, it was used as a background picture for Oshare izumu and tried to expand overseas. The work was put into the Ulster National Museum in England, and a factory member of Andy Warhol became an agent.
Mother's Day is a special day.
Why don't you give a special gift to moms and moms who are always doing their best with their daily gratitude?
There are many gift candidates in the world.
However, it is difficult to think of a special gift that has been cut out now.
At this Tanaka Takuma Studio, we have prepared a special gift that will leave the era semi-permanently, as if insects were trapped in amber.
It is a special process of portraits of women, etc., and it is made into a work as if it were confined in amber.
This will be a wonderful memory to keep a semi-permanent record of this year's mom.
A new series with the theme of "peace of mind".
Since each person has different feelings for peace, we will make this completely custom-made.
We will produce each item individually, so up to 10 people will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please send us pictures of your important partner, relatives, pets that you love like children, etc.
We will make it with all our heart so that you can spend your days calmly.
We will make your precious things with all your heart as a work that will remain in your heart forever.
If you are interested, please contact Takuma Tanaka Studio.
[Date and time] April 2nd (Sat) to 10th (Sun), 2022 10: 00-17: 00
[Place] In the corridor of Takuma Tanaka Studio
In collaboration with "LEON'S COFFE" on the 1st floor,
We will provide free coffee to the first 100 people.
We have a lot of small works that are easy to decorate, so we have a lot of them.
We look forward to seeing you at the studio on this occasion!
Takuma Tanaka’s works are available on Artsy.net.
https://www.artsy.net/search?term=Takuma%20Tanaka
You can buy works on sale there. Also you can see the record of the works.
Takuma Tanaka’s work “Money Money Shut Up” is sold at 40,000USD.
Takuma Tanaka Solo Exhibition 2021 is now open in Takuma Tanaka Studio, Tokyo.
This is the first time to have solo exhibition since I moved to this studio of mine.
Honored to have many visitors and fans here at the first day reception.
Exhibition is open from 10am to 6pm until 24 Oct.
Adress HULIC-Kanda Sudacho Bldg.B1, 1-14-1, Kandasudacho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN
In 2008, for the first time I went to New York to sell my work.
At that time, there was no iPhone and didn't know where to find galleries, but I decided to go to New York.
I decided to go anyway, because the demand for paintings in Japan had dropped considerably due to the Lehman Shock, and the street sales I was doing at the time and the exhibitions and sales at rental galleries were not doing well.
I had heard that New York was the home of painting, so I decided to check out every place I could find, and I brought a canvas with about a size 10 painting on it, as well as smaller works.
At that time, the situation of galleries in New York was not as clear as it is today through the Internet and other media.
I read in the guide book that the center of the art area was shifting from Chelsea to the Lower East Side, where the Jews first settled in New York, but I had no idea what that meant.
I didn't have much money then than I do now, so I decided to stay at a cheap inn called the Japanese Guest House.
It was 30 dollars a night. After that, I would often use this inn every time I went to New York.
When I landed at John F. Kennedy Airport, I took a shared bus with instructions from the inn.
I took the bus because it was an hour far from Manhattan and I didn't have the money to take a cab.
I don't remember the details of the bus anymore, but there were only colored people on it.
When we arrived at the inn, the driver told us to get off the bus and go here. But there was no sign of the inn.
I panicked, but I got off and looked carefully at the sign and saw the name of the inn in small letters.
To be continued
In this article, I will write about the art industry in the wake of the corona disaster.
Restaurants were particularly damaged by the new coronavirus.
So how was the art industry undergo?
Before the emerge of coronavirus, it was common to visit museums and galleries to view artworks.
However, this situation has now changed.
The pandemic has forced museums and galleries to close their doors.
As a result, artists have lost the opportunity to show and sell their works, and have been put in a difficult situation.
People are now less likely to visit the sites and see the works.
In response to this, the art industry is trying to regain its footing online.
Nowadays, you can freely view artworks online without going out.
And there are some benefits exclusive online, like interviews and discussions of those professionals.
Takuma Tanaka has been presenting and selling his works online for the past three years.
The advantage of online is that you can see the work from a distance without having to visit the studio.
On the other hand, there is a weak point that the texture and size of the work cannot be conveyed.
However, the use of images and video is beginning to make up for this shortcoming as much as possible.
At the Takuma Tanaka Studio, we have taken measures to prevent corona infection, so you can feel at ease when you visit the studio.
If you would like to visit us, please feel free to do so.
That's it for this time. Thank you very much for your time.
Last year, I created a lot of works. However, this year I will be producing fewer and better, condensed works. The number of works will be reduced, so the price will be a little higher, but the workes will be more powerful than ever before.
Originally, I mainly painted with oil. This material takes time to dry. Sometimes I paint on the undried painting but those are the exceptions. Basically, I add other colors after the paint has dried.
Recently, I started painting a series "The Sayings" that is inspired by the sayings and poems of old Japan and China. I started the series with five paintings at the same time, and only one of them turned out well, so I published that one in my online store. The other four are unpublished and I have no plans to sell them.
Because of these process of stricket selection, the works are intended to be more sophisticated. And since I use paints and other materials that cost about 4,000 yen each for a thumb-sized tube, the price of the finished work goes up.
I once considered that it would be better to close the studio and paint calm at home if I use oil painting, just because of the economic aspect. However, the studio is large enough to be able to see my work from a distance. There is also the fact that I have been supported by the people who I met here. If I sell through an art dealer, my share of the profits will be greatly reduced. For these reason, I will continue to work hard in the studio.
In my new series, "The Sayings" I am creating works based on the words of great masters from various countries in the past like Japan and China.
These words makes me feel the great and eternal flow of universal history.
This may be felt differently by different people, but I try to abstract it in my own way so that it sticks deeply in the minds of many people.
In the future, I will select and release only such well-made works, and I hope that it please my cliente.
Takuma Tanaka has started a new series full of love.
Even in this terrible pandemic situation, we never lose the hope.
A interview about Takuma’s vision is now published on Yahoo! Finance.
Takuma's work is now on exhibition in Aoyama, central Tokyo. If you are interested in please visit and see it!
This big work is now under dealing with American collector who recently opened a museum in Australia
How to think that we are less than moss
I happened to watch a news program and saw the snowfall information on my cell phone.
The world is a mess, and everyone is full of complaints. After all, there are risks like hyperinflation. It's no laughing matter for the wealthy. People who don't have money are also not funny. It is society that supports people, but society is also affected by the corona, global climate change, changes in the universe, changes in the sun's activity, and so on.
Humans happen to be living on the surface of this planet like moss in an interglacial period. We may look like we own the planet, but in the eyes of the whole world, we are nothing more than a thickened moss. Furthermore, we are one of the 7 billion or so people in the world, and we are no better than moss.
If you look at it that way, you don't have to be overly happy or sad about the human world, yourself, or the relationships around you.
This way of thinking is a core concept for me. It leads to the story of human sushi, which is also about looking at people from a bird's eye view and reflecting on the brutality of their actions. Also, the Cake Ship series is about a cake and a human being, which at first glance is difficult to connect, but when you look at the elements of the composition, the chemical formula of the carbohydrate cake is (CH2O)n, which is close to that of a human being, which is made up of H2O (human) and C (carbon). In fact, they have a lot in common.
In addition, the chromosomes of women and men are almost the same, and Mona Lisa depicted the faces of men and women on the same screen, and Picasso made it easier to understand.
Furthermore, there is a theory that humans and other living things have almost 99% of their DNA in common, and the idea of trees growing out of our heads was born out of the awareness that if hair can grow, then grass and even trees can grow out of our heads.
Although they are said to be different at first glance, the world is made up of a core of similarities, so if you take this into consideration, the core of my series of works is a reminder to not get too caught up in the details.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
The special sale for December is now started. Please check if .
We have special sale every month.
The works we sell there has much affordable price than usual and there are some works experimental.
Art saved me during the most difficult time of my life. And now, with the support of many fans, I am able to make a living as a painter.
Now it is my turn to help those who have lost hope.
I'm thinking of calling it the Takuma Car Project, where I'll be working with the people who have been suffering from the coronavirus pandemic to make painted cars to sell as a charity project.
First of all, I'm going to auction off my paint car from December 25 to January 10. Since the awareness of painted cars is low in Japan, it will also serve as an advertisement. At the same time, we are asking for people who want to paint on the cars or who have lost their jobs.
In the second half of January, myself and some unemployed people will paint small paintings on the cars of those who want to be painted. Our team will gradually improve their skills, and when we get used to it, we will paint a whole car to make a painted car.