How a cult artist from Japan predicted today’s bleak times
Tetsuya Ishida’s ‘haunting’ paintings of alienation and despair from the 90s are more relevant today than ever, as explored in a new exhibition of the artist’s work in Paris
Black News 
In Japan, the 1990s are known as the “Lost Decade”. After years of prosperity and technological advancement, an economic bubble had burst, causing the economy to crash and sending the country into a period of severe stagnation. The Japanese artist Tetsuya Ishida was in his late teens and early 20s, and his early works bear all the hallmarks of the era’s fatigue and disillusionment. In his paintings, salarymen sleep on benches during their lunch break, wrapped (or trapped) in bagwormhellip;
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