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Born in Tokyo, 1968; passed away in 2009. Graduated from Tama Art University (B.F.A, Painting) in 2000. Before entering the university, having personal friendship with hardcore bands based in Detroit and other places, he designed their CD jackets and zine covers. His works on paper were extremely violent yet wonderfully beautiful: through finely-resolved imagery that even exceeded the limits of the naked eye, the noise and the chaos of this world were drawn with utmost preciseness and at a velocity that challenged his physical limits to an unlimited degree. What we see in them are people vomiting and screaming out of a severe disease, being filled with a burning rage, or being aghast at something totally unknown. Showing so many different faces almost to excess, each work confronts us with the true reality of life so vividly and cruelly. It is this vortex of the earsplitting roar and the chaotic events which turns into, as we see it, a nirvana-like tranquil space-time. A highly-trained skill of precise depiction and adrenaline junkie-like sensitive eyes to find Gods in details, even in dots of a liquid crystal display, coexist in Obayashi's body of work.

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