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AYA TAKANO

1976, Saitama, Japan  
She lives and works in Kamakura, Japan

site-specific | permanent artwork

Happy and joyous days

2024  
Fresco

 

Painter, illustrator, science fiction essayist, and manga  artist, AYA TAKANO has created a highly personal universe composed of infinite worlds, each serving as a means to escape reality and gravity and its constraints, to achieve a form of transcendence. 

AYA TAKANO’s Happy and joyous days, a permanent  work created for the Palazzo Diedo bookshop, is a  ceiling painting made using the ancient fresco a giornate  technique, taking its inspiration from Venice, the city of water. Unlike traditional frescoes that usually depict gods, angels, or dragons observing us from above, TAKANO’s piece flips the perspective: the viewer gazing upward finds themselves completely immersed in the Venetian  sea, where a manga-style mermaid floats on the surface  with a Venetian Lion and sea creatures, along with a copy of the book The Merchant of Venice adrift nearby. 

Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Perrotin, Paris

Photo by Massimo Pistore. Courtesy of the Artist, Perrotin and Palazzo Diedo / Berggruen Arts and Culture. ©2024 AYA TAKANO/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. © UNISVE - Ilaria Zago

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