Echoing the Pan-Asian theme of this year's Art Fair Tokyo, which was held earlier this month, Shibuya's shop-based Diesel Gallery is hosting a free exhibition of the visually striking work of Chen Man, a young Chinese artist.
The 32-year-old Beijing-based native of Inner Mongolia uses heavily treated photographs to create lush, glamorous digital prints that are filled with a great deal of wit, humor, and sexiness.
While still a student at Beijing's Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2003, Chen started creating cover-work for Vision, a prominent monthly Chinese art and fashion magazine, spending a lot of time retouching each image to create her inimitable style. She has spun this in two directions, as both a photographer for mainstream fashion and advertising and a creator of fine-art prints. While her commercial work has appeared in Vogue and Elle, and has included such corporate clients as P&G, Adidas, L'Oreal, and Motorola, she also creates signed limited-edition prints that sell for hundreds of thousands of yen.