Ikeda Manabu

Ikeda Manabu Ikeda received critical attention from American audiences following his participation in the exhibition Bye Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, at the Japan Society in New York City in 2011. Holland Carter, writing for the New York Times commented: “For obsessive detailing, nothing tops Manabu Ikeda’s miniaturist ink landscapes and cityscapes. In Existence he presents the world as a giant, decomposing tree. In History of Rise and Fall, it becomes a shifting, clattering architectural
pileup: a million-roofed Samurai castle garnished with cherry trees, fragmented Buddhist sculptures
and ant-size hanged human figures.”