THREE DIFFERENT MINDS:

Mucciaccia Gallery London is pleased to announce “Three Different Minds” featuring international artists Nick Atkins, Auto Moai and Aki Yamamoto.
Despite their apparent stylistic difference, the three artists share their very own idea of representing reality through their alter egos.
Nick Atkins, after a series of different animals used in his past productions, is now using cats as main subjects of his works.
Auto Moai is a ghost, or rather the ghost of something in which the artist sees an abstract part of the personality.
For Aki Yamamoto the umbrella is a depiction of himself, littered umbrellas are commonly seen in Japanese cities. Open umbrellas are caught by the wind and often fly away, on the other hand, when the umbrellas are closed, they become somehow forgotten in narrow spaces where they become some sort of ghosts, existing without anyone noticing. According to Yamamoto, umbrellas represent the ambiguity and instability of human existence.
Although they are three different minds, they self explore themselves through painting.

The exhibition will run from Thursday, December 16th, 2021 to Saturday, March 5th, 2022.
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10am to 6pm

For further information please contact: london@mucciaccia.com

ARTISTS BIO:

Nick Atkins (b. Boston, MA, 1982) lives and works in New York. His work, which integrates painting, film, sculptural installation, and fashion, draws on historic references, pop iconography, and his own idiosyncratic visual vocabulary. Both playful and arch, his practice employs techniques of appropriation and montage to disrupt recognizable imagery and storylines.
His large-scale, site-specific installations gesture at world building, often populated by characters and kinetic objects from his imagination. With his sculptures, he frequently contrasts scale and mass with fragility and temporality, using materials and themes that signal ecological concern.
In a wink to the digital realm, his crude, humorous paintings often depict the collision between cartoon characters—expressing joie de vivre and sexual deviance—and real world malaise. For his latest series of paintings, Cleopatra’s Cat, images of Cleopatra are lifted from magazines and posters and juxtaposed to examine questions of iconicity and humor.
In 2004, Atkins received a Design B.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts, New York. His work has recently been exhibited at Mucciaccia Gallery (New York, 2020 and Rome, 2021) and as part of The Newsstand in Ocean of Images: New Photography at MoMA, New York (2015). Since 2013, he has presented his work in guerrilla-style interventions across the United States at venues including Entrance Gallery, Procell, The National Arts Club, James Fuentes, and muddguts. ln 2019, he produced a collaborative clothing collection with Comme des Garcons. He has been a lead graphic designer for Supreme since 2015.

Auto Moai began creating works in monochrome in 2015, has been using a lot of color since 2018, and is known for a distinct style in which a highly anonymous “presence” seems to be standing on the canvas. The artist’s style, which is extremely objective but also appears to be a very personal scene, presents us with views and sceneries that can be found through the removal of elements, such as the relationship between people and the relationship between the painting and the viewer.
Since 2020 the artist has revealed a series of oil paintings and has been working on this ever since. Along with flat surface mediums, she now also works in three-dimensional forms. Recente xhibitions include Buoy (CALM AND PUNK GALLEY, Tokyo) in 2020, How to Talk About Love in a Wrong World (Isetan the Space, Tokyo) in 2021 and (everyday mooonday, Seoul) with Andy Rementer in the spring of 2021.

Aki Yamamoto, born in 1997, is an artist based in Tokyo. During his teenage years, he was heavily influenced by the graffiti culture, and that is clearly shown in his early works such as action photos of graffiti and city exploration, ZINEs featuring his daily snapshots, drawings, and texts, cement sculptures inspired from his drawings and blueprints.
He is currently working on anthropomorphic paintings focused on nostalgic flashbacks that can be triggered when you see discarded things on streets such as umbrellas or chairs.