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After his successful first solo exhibition at Micheko Gallery in February 2012, we are delighted to show a new set of artworks by Kenichi Yokono to his collectors in Germany and beyond. Yokono, born and residing in Kanazawa, Japan, uses traditional woodblock cutting techniques to question in his very own, eccentric manner the way of life of Japanese suburbia. As icons of more or less subtly expressed cruelties and menaces, his works represent an unsettling contrast to the sugary and doe-eyed characters of Japan’s ubiquitous manga and anime culture of the so called “Cool Japan”.

Although …