Claudio Tobinaga
Bio
A graduate of UFRJ’s School of Music, Tobinaga has attended several courses at the School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage.
In 2018, he held the solo show Colapsos at the gallery Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea. Participated in the group exhibitions “O Ovo ea Galinha” at Simone Cadinelli Arte Contemporânea (Rio de Janeiro, 2019), “Territories” at the Hélio Oiticica Art Center (Rio de Janeiro, 2013) and at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (Kassel , 2011). He has work in the collection of the Museum of Art of Rio de Janeiro.
Statement
My paintings show bodies and symbols of local and mass culture in different contexts, fragmented and juxtaposed. The mains references pertain to the influences of migratory flows that occurred between Japan and Brazil. As a grandson of Japanese immigrants, I have an output that deals with images from Japanese TV shows, magazines and with immigrants. In this sense, my paintings present us with a fragmented identity, a collage of references: a “cultural glitch”.
