Have You Met Mr. Ryosuke Cohen in Person?

[Kiki]

Hello from Osaka, Japan!

I am wondering who in this group have met Mr. Ryosuke Cohen in person  ? Tomoe-san, a fellow IUOMA member, has met him in person. I have never met him in person yet. I live rather close to where he lives, and wrote to him along with my recent Brain Cell submission art work that I would like to meet him in person and to let me know when the next meetups will be in Japan.

It seems he attends meetups with fellow artists in Japan, like in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. Close to where I live - Osaka :-)

If you have met Mr. Cohen, you are so lucky !!

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

Yes, Kiki, Ryosuke and Noriko visited at my home in Thessaloniki, Greece in October, 2019 and he did his "Fractal Portraits" performances with some Greek mail artist friends.

Then we three traveled by train to Athens and he attended Maria Chorianopoulou's mail art exhibit which was attended by other mail artists, too, including Yuri Gik from Russia. We also went with them to Sounion, Greece, and met with John M. and C.M. Bennett. How lucky we were to have Ryosuke come to Greece in 2019, just before the Covid pandemic:

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

2019 October in Athens, Greece:

see the video:

RYOSUKE COHEN FRACTAL PORTRAITS OCTOBER 2019 ATHENS, GREECE

• Added by Chorianopoulou Maria

[Rod Summers / VEC]

Yes, many times, we are friends in art.

[Cascadia Artpost]

[RJ - Moderator]

Meeting with Ryosuke Cohen and Shozo Shimamoto in Köln (Germany) back in 1990.  Already 34 years ago.....

[Kiki]

@Katerina

@Rod

@Jack

@Ruud

Wow!! How cool you all have met Mr.Cohen in person!! I hope I can meet him this year 2024. I will post photos here too when I get to meet him in person :-)