Shun Art Gallery is honored to announce its participation in ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA (AFAF). ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA (AFAF) has been held in Fukuoka since 2015 and is the only art fair in Japan based on the concept of Asia. The gallery carefully planned the Japanese artist Yuki MATSUEDA’s solo exhibition for the fair.

Yuki MATSUEDA 　(b. 1980)

1980 Born in Suikaido City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan 2001 Graduated from the Department of Art and Design, Tokyo University of the Arts 2010 Obtained Ph.D. of the Department of Art and Design, Tokyo University of the Arts.

Currently, being a visiting lecturer at Tokyo University of the Arts Yuki Matsueda is known for his unique three-dimensional pop-out sculptures that are amusing and thought-provoking. As a child, Matsueda spent his days at the printing factory, where his parents ran a small printing business. This was the stimulus of the artist’s creative world. Yuki Matsueda’s practice was born of an accident, his first work Super Egg in 2007 broke the plane of his traditionally two-dimensional work and unleashed the infinite energy of the egg escaping its shell. His practice involves making backing prints and then drawing the object out of its static world through a complex process involving PET casting and shaping.

Through his art of liberating ordinary objects from boredom, and integrating witty humor in it, Matsueda hopes to break the barrier between fine art and design. His soup can series is a re-appropriation of Andy Warhol’s well-known Campbell Soup prints, which represent mass production in a consumerist society. The aluminum can pops out leaving only the label on the print. The lid is left slightly open, to suggest to the viewer that there is a source of energy inside the can.

Matsueda has received several Art prizes, including the 2009 Nippon Paint Design Center Award. His works have been exhibited internationally in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Berlin, Seoul, and Los Angeles.