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Ritsushin Orimoto (1946-2025) has presented a wide range of works, including video, photography, graphics, and drawing, focusing on performances that transcend the boundaries between everyday life and art. In the 1990s, he traveled around the world wearing French bread all over his face and attracted attention with his street performance "Bread Man", where he interacted with local people. In addition, his name became known worldwide through the "Art Mama" series, which he collaborated with his mother with Alzheimer's disease, whom he cares for.

In this way, Orimoto not only co-created with various people, but also opened up a creative world of communication with living things as art through improvised contact with animals such as rabbits, pigs, chickens, alpacas, and ducks. He has been at the forefront of contemporary art including the Venice Biennale and has been active internationally for more than 40 years.

With a focus on performances that crossed the boundary between daily life and art, Tatsumi Orimoto (1946–2025) created a diverse range of works including videos, photographs, graphics, and drawings. In the 1990s, he began traveling around the world with loaves of French bread attached to his face, and garnered acclaim for his Bread Man street performances in which he engaged with local people. Another series, Art-Mama, Orimoto collaborated with his mother, for whom he cared after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. These works brought him worldwide fame.

In addition to co-creating works with a variety of different people, Orimoto’s improvisational encounters with animals such as rabbits, pigs, chickens, alpacas, and ducks, gave rise to a unique world of art based on communication between all forms of living things. Participating in events such as the Venice Biennale, Orimoto remained on the cutting edge of contemporary art as he engaged in international activities for over forty years.

Courtesy of Art Mama Foundation

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