Komuro’s sculptures blur the boundaries between fantasy and horror. Juxtaposing contemporary characters carved out of traditional materials of wood and bronze.
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Takahiro Komuro (Tokyo, 1985) is a sculptor based in Tokyo, Japan. His work is influenced by 80's fantasy and science fiction films, anime, novels, vintage American action figures, and Japanese soft vinyl monsters. He extracts and reconstructs these elements into sculptures and artefacts of beauty.
Komuro's large life-sized creations are carved from Katsura wood and then hand painted, blurring the boundaries between fine art and design, and balancing fantasy with horror.
Komuro trained at the Sculpture Department of Tokyo University of the Arts up to an MFA level. He has since founded TkoM Factory inc. where he currently produces his brightly coloured gloss sculptures.
Embracing childhood fantasies, his sculptures inspire a feeling of nostalgia and unease all at once. Growing up in the late 1980s and 1990s, a wide range of cultural influences formed the basis of his practice, from sci-fi films like Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and E.T. up to Transformers toys and the design of the Nintendo Family Computer.
His exhibition 'Phantom Cave' transformed the space of StolenSpace Gallery into a melting pot of fantastical, brightly-coloured figures that reside somewhere between reality and fiction. “I am interested in the expression between reality and fiction, so I composed the exhibition based on the image of a phantom cave that appears in London for a limited time only.” –Takahiro Komuro