December 23, 2024 12:45 pm

DEEPING INTO FEMALE SENSUALITY AND EXPERIENCE: Aya Takano, the dreamy female perception of the world

AYA TAKANO 1/4 – She was born in Japan in a December day, reading stories of exotic animals and natural sciences, like a strong impact on her dreamy perception of the world. This female artist, has reinvented the otaku culture through a feminine perspective. Her childlike, long-limbed characters, live in a suspended state of adolescence.8.2.POST

AYA TAKANO 2/4 – Exotic animals and landforms, combined with an urban city, are common themes in her artwork. Slim bodies, bulbous heads (and large eyes), you can observe inside her paintings. Her drawings and paintings, they are female characters, that float and contort their bodies.

AYA TAKANO 3/4 – She received a bachelor’s degree from Tama Art University in Tokyo. Maybe, you too can feel the childish atmosphere in her paintings. Takano’s worlds, are shiny and futuristic. Her work – as you can see – is a culmination of concrete modernity and the visceral world of nature. They are not children, but not quite women, always, inside her works.16.1.POST

AYA TAKANO 4/4 – Painting, the look of prepubescent girls, Became the target of her works. Its is a very personal style, which does not lose sight of the manga, the Japanese art collection of the seventeenth century. Her work anche delves deep into female senuality and experience.

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