Kazuki Umezawa ArtSlant - Generation Y X Dimension

http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/12580

Kazuki Umezawa, the youngest artist in the group, still seems like an oldster when he speaks of the next generation of Japanese youth whose brains must surely be wired differently from their computer and internet acumen from very young ages. The source material for his expansive flat wall installation, neo-X-death, remarkable for its vibrant pastiche of color and repetition, is the internet from which he grabs and prints out images. Asked why he prefers two-dimensional games in the era of realistic dimensional online worlds of war, he states that, characteristic of his generation in Japan, he chooses to operate in a more fantastic, versus a more realistic, environment for gameplaying. In contradistinction to the Superflat art movement that is largely derived from anime and manga, this work is entirely appropriated from the internet. Subsequently, the artist marks his broad collaged work by hand with ink, acrylic, glitter, and fluorescent paint.