The first exhibition of paintings and sculptures Takeshi Kitano

Personal exposure of Japanese film director is the Fund Cartier in Paris

Talents Japanese Takeshi Kitano versatile: he and the world-famous director, and comedic performer in the past. Now he appears before the public as a sculptor and painter. Never before had he agreed to submit their work for exhibition, while director of the Foundation Cartier in Paris Herve Shand did not convince China to show their works to the children's audience. Temporarily abandon the Role of director and once again feel like a child Kitano succeeded thanks to its exhibition "The child-painter».

The author seeks to redefine the concept of "art", to deprive him of secular gloss, snobbery, give the new colors and make it accessible to all. And children first. And what children love most? Of course, the game. The spirit of fun and jokes felt in many works of Kitano - for example, in a giant sewing machine Hideyoshi, a complex mechanism which is simple embroidery patterns on the thin ribbon.

But even those works which the author was conceived as a joke, can be a frightening sense. Among the traditional masks, animal hybrids with weapons, comic characters can be found in the installation of a gallows on which the hanged effigy of the author himself - a grim reminder of the inevitability of death. Or, for example, a sculpture of China, kept in the hand of his own brain. So the artist tells the audience about the motorcycle accident in 1994, when he nearly died. Again give life gave new rise to his art.