Aki Kuroda

Aki Kuroda , (黒田アキ or 黒田明比古), born the October 4th 1944 with Kyoto is a painter, Japanese contemporary artist, which lives and works with Paris.

Biography

The father of Aki Kuroda was professor of economy at the university of Doshisha. He is single child and is high in a family very open on the European culture.

He starts to paint as of age the three years and at four years he makes his first oil-base paint. He settles definitively in France in 1970.

He carries out his first personal exposure in 1978 to Kunsthalle in Germany, then in the gallery Maeght (Paris) in 1980 and takes part in the 11th Biennial one of Paris the same year.

Its works did not cease inspiring by the men of letters like Marguerite Duras, Michel Foucault, Pascal Quignard…

In 1985, it publishes a review which it calls Noise , for which took part inter alia Jacques Derrida and Michel Serres.

It is an artist with the multiple facets: parallel to painting, it designs the decorations of the ballet Parade for Angelin Preljocaj with the Opéra of Paris and the Festival of Avignon in 1993.

In 1994, Aki Kuroda takes part in a great exposure within the framework of Biennial of São Paulo.

It carried out the Murals for the University Pôle Léonard de Vinci, the Maison of the culture of Japan of Paris, the coffee of the Musée of Modern art and contemporary of Strasbourg and for the town of Paris in 2000.

He collaborated with architects like Tadao Ando and Richard Rogers in order to carry out paintings in relief in Japan.

Since 1992, Aki Kuroda conceives Spectacles performances which it names Cosmogarden in which it mixes various artistic forms.

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