Keiichi Tanaami's China show at southern mall

The works of Japanese artist Keiichi Tanaami, 82, often capture an audience's imagination at first glance with their dazzling color schemes and the compact composition of their subjects.

Yet underneath these fantastic and at times weird scenes set out in his vivid creations, Tanaami, a leading figure in postwar Japan's artistic landscape, dwells on the topic of life and death. He juxtaposes elements of pop culture with his childhood experiences of World War II and the hallucinations as a side effect of medication in his 40s.

Tanaami's eponymous exhibition, currently running at the chi K11 art space in Guangzhou, Guangdong province through Sunday, charts his artistic course through his paintings, prints, collages, sculptures and designs since the 1960s.