Showing - Yoshitaka Amano, Deva-Loka @ Galerie Michael Janssen - Berlin

Mr Manga himself, Yoshitaka Amano, is back with a solo show, ‘Deva-Loka’ at Michael Janssen in Berlin – which is, by all accounts, a fair distance from Amano’s Tokyo and New York homes. Still, that’s not to say his genius won’t be appreciated on European soil; it will. His work is international, and crosses all sorts of boundaries. So, it goes without saying, you don’t have to be a video game aficionado to appreciate ‘Deva-Loka’.

The works presented here are diverse. Think large canvases, aluminum panels, ‘psychedelic ornamentation’ and ‘grim superheroes’. While I’m not so sure about the ‘psychedelic ornamentation’, it’s too close to lava lamp for my liking, I’m always sucker for a ‘grim superhero’, and as for the canvases, well, going by the press images, they're bound to be pretty funky too.

Yoshitaka Amano, Deva-Loka @ Galerie Michael Janssen Berlin, Kochstr. 60 D-10969 Berlin, from January 19 - February 29, 2008