AYA TAKANO - Hot Banana Fudge

Published by Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd., 2000Softcover, 150 pages15.2 x 21 cm | 6 x 8.25 inText in English and JapaneseISBN 9784939148019 About the artist:Painter, illustrator, sci-fi writer and manga artist, AYA TAKANO belongs to Kaikai Kiki, the artistic production studio created in 2001. Inspired by all art forms, from erotic stamps of the Edo Period to impressionism, from Osamu Tezuka to Gustav Klimt, the artist has built a universe all her own. A universe made of infinite worlds, all means of escaping reality, gravity and its restraints, to attain a certain form of transcendence.AYA TAKANO’s inner journeys wind their way into delicate works that convey a disturbing impression, somewhere between eroticism and impertinence. In a bedroom or in the metro, in front of the skyscrapers of a megalopolis or on the moon, naïve and androgynous girls are sketched out in thin, sharp lines. The artist’s mythology has constructed itself little by little, through her creations and visions of the unkn