*Complete version of my portion for a list of favourite exhibitions in 2016 on Tokyo Art Beat.
For me, 2016 was the Year of the Woman Artist. These were the artists whose events I most greatly anticipated or talked about. Their art could be seen at small or large galleries and also at alternative spaces. Their careers cover the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries and several countries.
WARNING! This post deals with material of mature subject matter. You should be 18 or older to continue reading.
Megumi Igarashi, also known as Rokudenashiko or 6D745, has been making headlines all over the world with her artwork featuring female genitalia. She gave a talk last Saturday at the Sunday Cafe. That in itself is kind of funny.
Good Sad news! Megumi Igarashi, also known as Rokudenashiko or the “Good-for-Nothing Girl” but more commonly as the “Vagina artist”, was acquitted convicted of the obscenity charges related to the distribution of the data files from a 3D printer used to make a kayak that was a 3D cast of her genitals. (You can tell by the strikethroughs what I thought the verdict should have been.)