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… or Mac Art, however you want to call it. Personally, I find Aya Kato‘ work absolutely amazing. Let me tell you a little about this artist.

The most interesting figure of Japanese digital art has built her own style by merging the traditional Japanese art with manga graphics, Art Nouveau decorative techniques and occidental popular culture.

The second biggest economic power in the world, Japan, entered deep into the global consciousness, constantly developing a type of hybrid culture, perfectly adapted to the modern time of the remixes, sample designs and collages.

Aya Kato is the perfect product of this culture, using her Mac and new media with the same virtuosity with which her predecessors were painting the bamboo canvas in ink.

Kato’s artistic universe is difficult to portray in theoretical terms. She made her debut in music, by doing the graphics for Tori Amos‘ video Sleep with Butterflies, she then moved towards fashion, by designing the prints for the Beautiful/Decay line, she entered the techy world of the gadgets, designing futuristic iPod and laptop cases and she contributed to literature by illustrating various book editions for Edgar Allan Poe and Claire Dean.

But it’s not necessarily these details that made me write about her. It’s her work itself and the fact that I saw her “paintings” exposed all over Bucharest’s apartment houses, printed on huge canvases. Take a look for yourself!