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Makoto explores society and history and goes beyond "the borders between contemporary and pre-modern, east and west with a body of work that includes pretty young girls, war paintings, and salarymen, Aida's distinctive style featuring bizarre contrasts and scathing critique has earned him a sizeable following among people of all ages." - Mori Art Museum. He graduated from the Tokyo University of the Arts with both a BFA and an MFA. 1965 in Niigata, Japan) is known for his provocative works of manga, painting, video, photography, sculpture, and installation. Tokyo: ABC Shuppan Co., 1996.The present monograph provides a review of Japanese artist Makoto Aida's body of work produced during his 30s, the titles of which have been listed in 'Chapter Headings'.Īida Makoto (b. Tokyo: ABC Shuppan Co., 1999.Īdolescence and Perversion. Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co., 2007.Īpt.Kubo-So#6. Aida is currently a part-time instructor in the Oil Painting Department of Tokyo University of the Arts.īeijing Behind the Art. He is an author of Mutant Hanako (comic), Adolescence and Perversion (novel), and Monument for Nothing (exhibition catalogue), among other publications. His most recent exhibitions include “Wallworks,” Yerba Buena Center of Arts, San Francisco (2009) 17th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2010) and “E-BAKA,” Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo (2010). Aida has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in and outside of Japan. He was initially trained in painting at Tokyo University of the Arts, but has since expanded his artistic range to include photography, sculpture, performance, installation art, urban design, and comic book and novel writing. Makoto Aida was born in Nigata prefecture, Japan, in 1965.

The work treads a moral tightrope by referencing the politically charged figure and at the same time becomes a poignant satire of the pacifist and insular political environment of Japan. He becomes a lazy, sake-drinking old man who, in a drunken stupor, tells the viewer that he has quit being a terrorist and to stop looking for him. In this video shot in an amateurish style, not unlike videos taken by terrorists and sent to foreign media to announce their destructive acts, the artist impersonates the world’s most wanted terrorist in a hypothetical situation-hiding in Japan. Among the recurring themes in his oeuvre is war and nationalism. Single channel video, sound, 8 minutes, 14 secondsĪsia Society, New York: Promised Gift of Harold and Ruth Newman.Ī prominent artist in contemporary Japanese art since the 1990s, Makoto Aida has dealt with subjects considered taboo for many Japanese.

The Video from a Man Calling Himself Bin Laden Staying in Japan, 2005