Tabaimo biography of albert

The work of the artist Tabaimo, born in 1975 in Hyogo, Japan, demonstrates the fluidity of the relationships between the practice of drawing and the animation film, between Japanese woodcut prints of the Edo period and popular television of the 1970s, while also incorporating other references specific to the cultural history of Japan.

The young Japanese artist not only integrates the history of animation drawing into her art, but at the same time claims allegiance to the famous painter, printmaker and draughtsman Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849), the distinctive style of whose woodcuts likewise influenced Van Gogh.

Via the subtle alchemy of colour and line that potently infuses her animation film aitaisei-josei , created in 2015, Tabaimo breathes a presence and a movement into a nocturnal scene that has become the setting for exalted passions and surreal visions.

The film intersects the stories of two pairs of lovers: Ohatsu and Tokubei from The Love Suicides at Sonezaki (Jap.