Obata captivated the audience with a dynamic live performance on March 1, 2020, utilizing spray cans, crayons, Tipp-Ex, and color pencils. Over a thrilling three-hour session, 15 vibrant pieces emerged, each reflecting the energetic rhythm of the moment. The artworks were then displayed, showcasing the creativity unleashed in real-time.
Japanese artist Taku Obata is well-known for creating life-sized sculptures of B-Boy whose work owes a great deal to hip-hop culture and breakdance.
For his drawing, Obata captures, exaggerates and deforms the human body in dance movement, emphasizing the bodies’ forms, poses, and physique, while eliminating the emotional or inner elements of the figure. His drawings are fast and figurative, capturing the visual essence to breakdancing and motion. This drawing exhibition is in conjunction with Obata’s B-Boy sculpture Installation at Japan House London, 28 February – 6 April
Born in 1980 in Saitama, Japan. After graduation from the Department of Sculpture in Tokyo University of the Arts (TUA), he completed the Special Graduate Course (sculpture) at TUA in 2008. The same year, he won the best award in Tokyo Wonder Wall 2008. Obata has had a string of successful exhibitions in Japan and the United States, his work has featured in the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection in 2012 and the duo show Watarium in 2018, Gallerie Bomma 2020 in Paris, International Artist in Residence at
