ART TAIPEI 2024 | COMBINE/BAMI gallery

Takumi Kama

A stage in the deep forest

Acrylic color・Cotton on wood panel

116.7 × 91 cm

2024

Takumi Kama is an artist born in 1985.
Japanese painter Takumi Kama uses acrylic paints to reproduce animals and insects with amazing precision and realism.In an increasingly modernized and nature-destroying human society, animals are the most affected by the destruction of nature, and wild animals have their existence zones reduced. Takumi Kama, a painter from Osaka, Japan, cynically and brilliantly depicts the future landscape of our entire life form as humans destroy the natural world and invade the lives of animals.

 

Takumi Kama seems to empathize with many animals and expresses it strongly in his paintings, which are filled with a variety of animals in unnatural and strange environments. Using animal life as the main focus, he creates stimulating sub-senarios that metaphorically suggest or comment on the relationship between the deceptions of human society and the animals' primordial environment.

 

The main focus of his art making is to focus on the humorous aspects of his work. He explains in his statement that the goal of his paintings is for people to enjoy them and have a few laughs.

 

What is simple, clear, and most important to me is how my work can stop someone in their tracks, draw them into an unexpected world, and even stop time. You should laugh and be a little scared. Humor for everyone is a very important part of life. It doesn't need a reason or an explanation, otherwise it wouldn't be funny. Look at the work, look at the title, and if you can understand it, you can understand it. I just want you to laugh freely and enjoy it.

 

I depicted a mysterious stage featuring a horned owl living deep in the forest.
By incorporating contrasts between natural and artificial trees in various places, I visualized the situation of these owls losing their habitats due to deforestation.