What if the Power Rangers reformed as a Japanese hiphop crew with degrees in sculpture? Taku Obata’s new show at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, It’s Just Begun, suggests the result would be rather awesome.
Obata formed the hiphop group UNITYSELECTIONS (who performed at the exhibition opening on Saturday night) in the late 90s, and since then he has been refining their tongue-almost-in-cheek styles of dance, music, street art and design, in recent years setting up the sister project HIPHOP SENTAI BBOYGER. Meanwhile he also graduated in sculpture at Tokyo National University, and is proving himself to be as skilled with the chisel as he is with the mic.
His background in dance and hiphop has evidently given him great insight into the form of the human body and the way it moves; the wooden sculptures currently on show have a remarkable sense of motion and energy about them.
See more from UNITYSELECTIONS here.
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