Aya Takano is a prominent Japanese artist known for her unique blend of Surrealism, science fiction and Japanese pop culture. She is associated with the ‘superflat’ movement, a postmodern art style founded by Takashi Murakami, which emphasises two-dimensional imagery influenced by manga, anime, and Pop art. Aya Takano’s work offers a glimpse into the artist’s private world of fantasy that travels through space and time.
Born in 1976 in Saitama, Japan, Takano graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 2000 and subsequently worked as an assistant to Takashi Murakami. With Murakami as her first mentor, Takano is undoubtedly influenced by the leading Japanese artist in her exploration of the two-dimensionality of figuration. In fact, her sources of inspiration are wide-ranging, from erotic stamps dating from the Edo period to Impressionism, Osamu Tezuka to Gustav Klimt.
Juxtaposition is central to Takano’s aesthetic approach; a jarring mismatch of atmospheric realms is often seen in her work. She explores the liminal spaces between countryside and city, fantasy and reality, nature and culture, child and adult, leisure and labour.
At the same time, Takano exhibits a strong desire to reinvent and reclaim the highly gendered otaku culture (geek culture) through a feminine perspective. Drawing from the concepts of escapism and fantasy in shojo manga (girls comics) of the post-war era of the 1970s, Takano’s images establish a kind of psychological sanctuary for her audience to surpass the conventions of social constraints by employing vaguely familiar but distant settings, all of which are transmuted into her delicately painted and vividly coloured canvases.
Takano’s work has been exhibited internationally in Paris, Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong. In 2011 Christie’s sold a monumental canvas by Takano entitled You Want to Get Out of Here, Don’t You? (2007) for HK$3,380,000, setting a world auction record for the artist.
Aya Takano’s rich and complex visual language is a successful union of her imaginative genius and mastery in painting. Takano anchors the quality of her work by the breadth and depth of her pictorial world and the capacity of an imagination that is unmistakably revelatory of the perceived complexities of our everyday world.
高野綾
The Wind Came. The Vast Sky was a Light Blue. She Sees a World that Envelops the Entire Stratosphere.
高野綾 （1976年生）
所多瑪和蛾摩拉之地
高野綾
天天都是嘉年華
高野綾 (日本，1976年生)
千年螺旋的秘密：大塚
高野綾
Nomads, Who Are Excellent in Battle
高野綾
密室— 常春藤屏風
高野綾
東京鐵塔
春松之房
高野綾
高野綾 （1976年生）
馬鈴薯
高野綾 (日本，1976年生)
北京的魚真美味
AYA TAKANO (B. 1976)
Power Spot 2: Keishin Hospital, Aliens
高野綾
無題
Aya Takano (b. 1976)
I had a dream, in the aftermath of the disaster, water was gushing out from the mountains, and formed a pond
高野綾 (日本，1976年生)
千年螺旋的秘密︰田代太田
Aya Takano (B. 1976)
Let’s go into the World
Aya Takano (b. 1976)
Jump
高野綾（1976年生）
無題
高野綾
白狗
高野綾
無題
高野綾 (日本，1976年生)
上升，浮動能量和鮮花
高野綾 (日本，1976年生)
金刀比羅宮之子：風景中的亭閣
摩羯座
高野綾
高野綾 (1976年生)
呼喚貓頭鷹的她凝望遠方。四周的建築物熠熠生光。
高野綾 (1976年生)
實驗室裡 (果凍的誕生)
Aya Takano (b. 1976)
Turkish Delight
Aya Takano (b. 1976)
Untitled
Aya Takano (b. 1976)
Untitled
高野綾 (1976 年生)
在古代的伊斯之上 迎接死亡嗎
AYA TAKANO (NEE EN 1976)
CANCER