Live Drawing Event & Exhibition - Taku Obata

Taku Obata Live Drawing Performance: Sunday 1 March 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
 Pop Up Exhibition: Opening 4 March 6:30 - 8 pm   Show runs till Sun 8 March

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 City & Guilds of London Art School 2019.