KOICHIRO TAKAGI Sold at Auction Prices

Born in Tokyo, to learn a variety of materials at the Art School of San Francisco, wide width of style to embroidery from Takagi painting that was returned after the production base for a while NY. But say consistently in a wide range of representation of his work has been included uncomfortable and contradictions of some sort, it is that there is no that the "people" come almost out to the motif.
Motif in many cases, is an animal and anthropomorphic animals, the expression is sometimes cute, sometimes glared the viewer toward the fangs here. There is contained the anonymity and mystique of precisely because it is the work in which the animal to hero, sense of intimacy and discomfort I produce a strange uncomfortable to be mixed.

While drawing a contradiction that you are having feelings or wavering people Takagi of work, it is to express the presence of the utopia that you want to believe that there is never seen. Various speculation that has been hidden in his work of the hero of facial expression as hand lead to utopia is, once again against the inner surface of the viewer, asking what the truth for each of the in fluctuating values ing.

Energetic and active as a painter in the participation and solo exhibition of national and international exhibitions and group exhibitions, BEAMS, and have done many design provides and collaboration to apparel brands such as PORTER and Paul Smith. And it is also introduced to the domestic and foreign media such as the NY Times.

Koichiro Takagi is a Japanese artist, making artworks on the theme, "uncomfortableness".
He creates the bright colored mystic world by distorting and patchworking of the present and the past, the reality and the fantasy.

Koichiro Takagi learned silk-screen printing in San Francisco then he moved to New York after graduation from school, and started his career as a painter.
Enjoying quite different atmosphere from both the east and west coast of the USA, he has been produced a lot of artworks.
In mid 2005 he jumped back to his hometown, Tokyo. He joins many group exhibitions as well as holds some solo exhibitions. He is proficient in graphical design such as Illustration and stenciled spraypainting. Koichiro's designs have been applied to Paul Smith, Beams and others .