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@NEW PEOPLE.

Ken Hamazaki joins our festival once again! This year we will see his “IN-FLIGHT PAINTING” exhibit in a pop-up gallery on the mezzanine level of NEW PEOPLE.

With his shaved head, red body paint, and red costumes, Ken Hamazaki is known in Osaka’s Minami Senba district as “The Red Man.” When he was twenty years old, Hamazaki traveled to England and after returning to Japan, opened a gallery to display his artwork in 1992 in Osaka’s Higashi Shinsaibashi area. In 1997, he moved the gallery to Minami Senba, painted the exterior and interior completely red and named it the Ken Hamazaki Museum of Contemporary Art, a title that, in Japanese, has the aggrandizing secondary meaning of the Hamazaki Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art.

www.kenhamazaki.jp