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'Sleepy Bat' by Takahiro Komuro
Exhibition
'Phantom Cave' by Takahiro Komuro
15 Dec 2023 – 28 Jan 2024
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 17 Osborn Street
- London
- E1 6TD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Aldgate East station - 1 min away
From small vinyl toys to large life-sized creations, Komuro’s sculptures blur the boundaries between fine art and design, and balance fantasy with horror. Embracing childhood fantasies, his sculptures inspire a feeling of nostalgia and unease all at once.
About
Takahiro Komuro, a sculptor based in Tokyo, Japan, is strongly influenced by 80's fantasy and science fiction films, anime, novels, vintage American action figures, and Japanese soft vinyl monsters. He extracts and reconstructs these elements into sculptures and artefacts of beauty.
For his solo exhibition ‘Phantom Cave’, Komuro was inspired by the space of our gallery, its length and brick walls, which he reimagines as a cave where his sculptures come to life. However, this is not a simple cave, but a phantom cave, meaning that it exists somewhere between reality and fiction, inviting the audience to enter with their imagination and allow themselves to experience the surreal vision of the artist.
Komuro trained at the Sculpture Department of Tokyo University of the Arts. He has since founded TkoM Factory inc. He has exhibited internationally across Japan, South Korea, USA and Europe.
