Tokyo workshops.
Mateusz Urbanowicz has lived in Tokyo for several years.
In 2016, he made his debut with a series of ten watercolor plates devoted to old stores in Tokyo.
The drawings, which immediately achieved great success, appeared in numerous newspapers and on television broadcasts.
The author of Tokyo Shops then decided to complete the series with forty new stores, exploring their architectural variations in various Tokyo neighborhoods. The book soon ends up becoming a reference guide for all those nostalgic for old Tokyo.
The bilingual, Italian-Japanese text includes an appendix explaining the technique used to draw the facades and the material adopted to make the drawings, all in watercolor.
Publisher: The Hippocampus
Author: Mateusz Urbanowicz
160 pp.
He was born and raised in Silesia, Poland.
Studied electrical engineering until he discovered that making art can be more than a strange hobby. Completed studies in Computer Graphics at the Japanese Polish Institute of Information Technology.
Thanks to a Japanese government scholarship, he moved to Kobe, Japan to study animation and comics.
He has been working as a full-time background artist at the animation studio Comix Wave Films in Tokyo since 2013.
In 2022 he exhibited a series of photographs at the solo exhibition “BOTTEGHE DI TOKYO” held in Milan.
The event was visited by more than one hundred and twenty-eight thousand guests from many countries.
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