Kosuke Ajiro《Lolo Is Angry》

Kosuke Ajiro

《Lolo Is Angry》

* Exhibited at Art Osaka 2026

Year: 2026

Edition: unique

Size: 450 × 380 mm

Materials: Acrylic on wood panel

Kosuke Ajiro

1980 Born in Tokyo

2000 Graduated from the Visual Design Course, Evening Division, Kuwasawa Design School

Kosuke Ajiro (born 1980) is an artist based in Tokyo. Since childhood he has given form to, and pursued, the "other world" he carries inside him. Working chiefly in acrylic painting, he has also produced ceramic objects and painted plates, doll-like sculptures, animation and music.

"Another world" grows out of the artist's childhood memories, out of the things that have shaped him and out of small events close at hand, yet it is set out through a single narrative: an unknown civilization that reached roughly a medieval stage of development and then, for a time, perished. It is a fiction and, at the same time, the artist's inner reality. Ajiro casts himself as the archaeologist excavating that lost civilization, setting down with his brush, one after another, the distant history unfolding in front of him. The works are ancient artifacts, which is why they carry traces of decay and of age. Each work has its own period and context; the figures and imaginary monsters that appear in it are sometimes given proper names, and every scene depicted carries a meaning. Some account for origins, others are lessons or fables, others no more than a minor incident. These detailed inventions expand to the scale of dynasties, creation myths and entire civilizations, and even the artist does not yet know their full extent. Released from every constraint, "another world" is full of absurdities, and it is no wonder that cruelty and humor, the grotesque and the endearing, live side by side there. The artist often witnesses himself in the form of a "girl" and records her in paint, a doppelganger at work.

Ajiro's work draws on elements of traditional Japanese picture scrolls, medieval European manuscripts and popular religious art from many periods and places, with the influence of Hieronymus Bosch particularly pronounced. In its surfacing of the deep unconscious it can equally be related to Jung, to Surrealist visionary imagery and to Outsider Art, while also showing a close affinity with the character culture of present-day Japan.

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