Lot 1531: HAJIME EMOTO

HAJIME EMOTO
(B. 1970)
Hammerhead Turtle; Romanian Dragon; Celtic Dragon; Crow Fish (Karasu-uo); Ashura gani; Evil Beast/Skeleton; Chochinimo-modoki; Mr. and Mrs. Frog; Bush Crocodile; & Sansho Unagi
signed 'H. Emoto' in English (on the reverse of each work); each dated '2007; 2007; 2007; 2005; 2005, 2007; 2005; 2004; 2005; 2005' (on the reverse of each work, respectively)
ten mixed media sculptures
34.3 x 25.3 x 9.5 cm. (13 1/2 x 9 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.); 43.1 x 60.4 x 9.6 cm. (17 x 23 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); 43.2 x 60.5 x 9.5 cm. (17 x 23 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.); 28 x 46.5 x 10.5 cm. (11 x 18 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.); 41.8 x 41.9 x 10.5 cm. (16 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 4 1/8 in.); 43
Executed in 2004-2007 (10)

Sapporo, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Animal Fantasy; Animals in Inuit Art and Modern Japanese Imagery - A Muse Land Tomorrow 2009, 9 December 2008-25 January 2009.

'Hajime Emoto', in Gekkan Bijutsu, Tokyo, Japan, December 2005 (illustrated, pp. 156 & 159).
Kobunsha, Shinkaron Freak Out Collection, Tokyo, Japan, August 2006 (illustrated, pp. 73, 171 & 187).
'Specimens of Phantasmal animals', in Mex Magasin, Zurich, Switzerland, November 2007 (illustrated, p. 27).
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Animal Fantasy; Animals in Inuit Art and Modern Japanese Imagery - A Muse Land Tomorrow 2009, exh. cat., Sapporo, Japan, 2008 (illustrated, unpaged & exhibition poster).