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Viz Pictures Continues to Expand the New People Artist Series with the DVD Release of Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau
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posted Mar 5, 2010, 11:25
Perceptive Documentary Profiles The Life Of A Graphic Designer Turned Contemporary Artist
Perceptive Documentary Profiles The Life Of A Graphic Designer Turned Contemporary
Artist
(San Francisco) VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media, LLC, that focuses
on Japanese live-action film distribution, will release the newest volume of
its ongoing New People Artist Series – Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau.
This interesting documentary follows the life of one of the most talented young
artists in Japan today. The DVD is due to release on March 9th and will be distributed
by VIZ Media.
Hisashi Tenmyouya: Samurai Nouveau presents a look into the artist Hisashi
Tenmyouya, a graphic designer turned contemporary artist, and his Neo-Traditional
Japanese Painting style. He uses gold foil and fine brushes to prepare for various
exhibitions while people surrounding the artist share their thoughts. In this
film, Tenmyouya reveals his soul through the melding of modern urban subjects
with traditional painting methods.
In celebration of this new release, VIZ Pictures has scheduled special screenings
of Hisashi Tenmyouya at VIZ Cinema on Saturday, March 6th at 1:00 pm, and Sunday,
March 7th at 3:00 pm. VIZ Cinema is located inside New People, a newly opened
entertainment destination in San Francisco at 1746 Post Street devoted to Japanese
pop culture. For more information about this event, please visit vizcinema.com
or viz-pictures.com.
“Hisashi Tenmyouya has shown steadily since his first show in 1990 at
age 24, including shows at the Whitney in New York and others in Tokyo, Berlin,
London, Paris, Madrid, Kiev and Sao Paulo,” says Seiji Horibuchi, President
and CEO of VIZ Pictures and the founder of New People. “Besides winning
the Taro Okamoto Memorial Award in 2003, he was chosen as one of 14 artists
in the world to participate in the design of the FIFA World Cup Poster for the
in 2006 World Cup. We’re honored to release this new documentary and look
forward to more people discovering the world of Hisashi Tenmyouya.”
Resources:
Viz Pictures: www.viz-pictures.com
New People Artist Series: www.newpeopleworld.com
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