Uemon Ikeda
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Uemon Ikeda is the professional name of Tatsuo Ikeda (Kobe
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, 1952), a Japanese artist and painter.

Biography

Uemon Ikeda moved from Tokyo
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, Japan
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 to Rome
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 in Italy
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 in the seventies. There he attended Venanzo Crocetti
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’s lectures at the Academy the Fine Arts where he graduated in 1977. In the eighties he met Simonetta Lux, who invited him to participate in the collective exhibition named "Simultaneity - New Directions Japanese Contemporary Art" at Palazzo Braschi
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, Rome (1991), amongst others.

In 1989 he had a solo exhibition, "Uemon Ikeda", at the Gallery Lunami (text Masaaki Iseki) in Tokyo, curated by Emiko Namikawa.

In 1997 he participated at the third festival of art and poetry in Bomarzo "Spells. Scenes of art and poetry. NEAR" conceived by Simonetta Lux and Miriam Mirolla, (Museum of Contemporary Arts Laboratory at the University of Tuscia), Palazzo Orsini.

In 2000 he exhibited in Rome at the Museum of Contemporary Art workshop at La Sapienza University (exhibition) "Uemon Ikeda - Tumble" and wrote a book:

In 2005 he exhibited again at the Museum of Contemporary Art Workshop, University of Rome 1 La Sapienza (solo show)

In 2010 he exhibited at the gallery Hybrida Contemporanea, Rome (solo show) "Jason and the beautiful Medea" curated by Emanuela de Notariis.

In 2011 he had an exhibition at TOKI Art Space, "Golden Fleece - Jason The beautiful Medea", curated by Noriko Toki, former assistant at Emiko Namikawa "Lunami Gallery".

His work has been supported by critics Masaaki Iseki, director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, by Simonetta Lux and Argentinian Carlos Spartacus.

Uemon Ikeda lives and works in Rome, Italy.
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