90s rock lives on in exhibition. Party on Wayne. Party on Garth.

Melbourne-based visual artist, Masato Takasaka is stuck in the 90s, head banging to the killer guitar solos of Guns ‘n Roses, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Alice Cooper and Def Leppard. He will bring this world of awesome riffs, screaming amps, long hair and black t-shirts back to the stage when he opens his solo exhibition, Post-structural Jam (Shut up! We know you can play), on 10 March at Metro Arts Galleries.

Selected as part of Metro Arts’ Galleries Program 2010, Takasaka will take the viewer back to the halcyon days of the rock ‘n roll gods, sharing a selection of images ripped from the pages of his guitar magazine collection from his high school days 1991- 1994.

Masato has poured over his extensive 90s rock magazine collection as part of his research into the readymade and the already made. Resulting in an exhibition that brings back fond rock memories like a Wayne’s World flashback with Wayne and Garth. Masato Takasaka, like many children of the 90s, was a teenage rock guitar tragic - blasting out ‘epic solos’ and ‘mean riffs’ in his bedroom.

“I even used to play lead guitar in a pub-cock-rock band called Teenwolf from 2002-2005. I got to live the dream! All our songs were about cars, sex, or girls or sometimes all three at once”, says Takasaka.

He has now carried this love of rock music over to his visual arts practice.

“My interest in lead guitar and progressive rock music has lead to assimilating my art practice with the idea of the 'session muso' (whose profession is to play the songs of others 'with signature inserted') with that of the artist”, Says Takasaka.

This is Takasaka’s second solo exhibition in Brisbane, following on from numerous solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne.

Takasaka is keen to bring the rocking guitar solos back to Brisbane audiences.