Download Print Erase Performative Installation

Masaru Iwai at TSCA for Performative Installation of "D.P.E." series.
Masaru will perform "D.P.E. "irregularly during exhibition dates.
If you wish to see his performance, please ask to the gallery before you are coming.

Dates：Sat, Nov 12nd - Sat, Dec 10th, 2011
Vienue：Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
TEL: +81(0)3-6278-0136
EMAIL: gallery@tsca.jp

Opening reception for the artist starts from 6 to 8pm today.
We hope to see you at the gallery today.

Venue: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
1F Tsukiji KB Bldg., 1-5-11 Tsukiji, Chuo-city, Tokyo


Download Print Erase. –The Most Common Names in America–
D.P.E. (“David” Google images Top 10, No. 1)
2011
21 × 29.7 cm
Pigment ink-jet print, glow paper and bleac

Artist:: Masaru Iwai
Titile: Dancing Cleansing
Venue: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Opening reception: Saturday, November 12

［Press Release］
Masaru Iwai was born in 1975 in Tokyo. He completed his doctorate degree in Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2009. Iwai incorporates the juxtaposition of cleaning/trash into his artwork under the overarching theme of “cleaner’s high”. Using a broad array of mediums such as installation, video, and performance, he makes a display of the desire intrinsic to our daily lives to clean, and furthermore he shifts the focus by questioning that cyclical action. Iwai’s solo exhibitions include Clean up 1. 2. 3. at Art Center Ongoing in Tokyo (2009) and Cleaner’s high #1 at Otto Maintzheim Gallery in Tokyo (2008). Group exhibitions include Re:membering – Next of Japan at Alternative Space LOOP in Korea (2009) and Double Cast at Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo (2007).

The upcoming exhibition follows the 2010 two-artist exhibition Spontaneous Order with Mitsunori Sakano, making it Iwai’s second showing at TSCA and his first solo exhibition here.　In recent years, Iwai has expanded his activity beyond Japan, including a residency in Taiwan and a group exhibition in Georgia. Iwai’s creative process involves gathering ideas from the various places he goes and using them in a way that connects each exhibition with the next to create a continuing story. While research is an important component of this process, the actions of “cleaning” and “washing” are universally understood and so delving into these concepts, no matter where the footage is shot or the cultural backdrop of that place, there are points that sync with the viewer’s own experience.

Dancing Cleansing, the title for this exhibition, will also be made into a series of works, starting with this solo exhibition. Production of the featured video work “Dancing Cleansing – Okinawa, Hip Hop” began in 2009, shot in Okinawa after first researching the topic. In it, the protagonist Akemi, who started up her own dance studio when she was young and now teaches dance to children, goes through town mopping in rhythm. Interviews with Akemi appear in a documentary about Akemi’s classes that opens in theaters coinciding with the exhibition. The theme of “cleaner’s high” carries over into the Dancing Cleansing series and showcases Iwai’s skill in visualizing concepts as he tackles the problems facing Okinawa today.

Rafael Rozendaal in a Nokia Advertising.

For more information, please visit Rafael Rozendaal's website.

「Dancing Clensing -Ballroom Dance-」

Masaru Iwai is looking for hundred volunteers who will help with performing for his new art work.

DATE: October, 10th, 2011 2-4PM
In the event of rain, it will be postponed till November 6th.
VENUE: Meet at in front of HINODE CHO Station on KEIKYU MAIN LINE. at 1:30PM.

For more information in English, please contact to info@cpue.org (CPUE)

If you wish to join this project, please send your information to cpue2011@gmail.com including your name, phone no., email address. And enter "出演希望"(apply for performing) on title box,

Detailed information is in below (in Japanese)
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ボランティア出演者募集 「横浜の下町で100人でダンスしましょう。」
来たる10月10日に横浜若葉町で撮影を行います!!

CPUE2011 "Drop me!"に出展いたします、岩井優の新作「Dancing Cleansing -社交ダンス」 のボランティア出演者を急募します。
商店街の一角を100人の出演者が思い思いのダンスを繰り広げます。男女・経験不問です。(当日簡単な動きを指示します)


《日時》
2011年10月10日(月・祝)午後2時~４時 (雨天時は11/6(日)に順延、現場状況により中止又は順延の可能性有り)
《アクセス》
横浜駅より京急本線 金沢文庫行き「日ノ出町」駅から徒歩10分
《集合》
13:30に京急本線「日ノ出町」駅改札前に集合(現地までスタッフ が誘導します)
撮影場所は横浜市中区若葉町３丁目交差点付近、または「似て非Works」の近くです。

《概要》
若葉町でダンスを!「社交」ダンスを！　―かつて多くの人が楽しんだ社交ダンス。その社交ダンスも横浜のダンスホールがきっかけとなって広がっていきました。この町で制作することによって起こりえる機能的な側面を考えながら、掃除／ダンスを楽しくできればと思います。撮影後は町がきれい、なんて。

■近くでは「黄金町バザール」「漂流する映画館」もやっています。「横浜トリエンナーレ」も開催中。１人でも多くの方にご参加いただけますよう、よろしくお願いします!!

参加可能な方は氏名・電話番号・メールアドレスを明記の上、件名に「出演希望」と記載し、下記アドレスにご連絡ください。
多摩美術大学芸術学科展覧会設計ゼミ
cpue2011@gmail.com


■展覧会詳細
・タイトル：　CPUE2011 "Drop me!"
・会期： 2011. 11.17(THU)~11.23(WED)
・会場： 似て非 Works
・参加作家：岩井優、SONTON、岩崎岳留、松延総司、山本聖子、中島崇
・コンセプト：特異な文化、歴史的文脈を持った町と、６組の作家とのコミュニケーションによって、どのような影響を与え／受け合うのでしょうか。本年度のCPUEは、展覧会の新たな方法論を探求するための実験的なプロジェクトです。

・問い合わせ：
E-mail：info@cpue.org（広報担当：島田）
URL：http://2011.cpue.org/
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Born 1978, Tokyo. Studied media art at Tokyo Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts.
Honjo photographs landscapes and buildings in the context of communities and human intervention, presenting them as though they were phenotypes observed within nature. He has garnered attention for his soft pictures, which he creates from a constructed layering of elements, including his preference for film, use of 4x5 large format cameras, aerial shooting, and his worldwide selection of shot locations. His photography book, small planet, received the 32nd Kimura Ihei Award, and his works are housed in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The upcoming exhibition of Honjo’s works will be held at two galleries. On display at the nap gallery will be his most well-known works, aerial shots of residential neighborhoods in Skåne County, Sweden. On display at TSCA will be new works alongside unpublished works from 10 years ago, shots of residential areas in Tokyo cut off from the ground. Through Honjo’s filter, sky and ground, opposite though they are, become one. We invite you to take this opportunity to see Honjo’s work on display at the two galleries.



LIGHT HOUSE Tokyo
Dates: September 24 - November 5, 2011
Venue: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art


Light House Skåne
Dates: September 24 - November 5, 2011
Venue: nap gallery

Opening reception for the artist: September 24th, 2011 6-8PM
Venue (Opening reception): Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

Matsuyama Tomokazu at Joshua Liner Gallery. For more information, please visit www.joshualinergallery,com.




East Weets Mest
Dates: September 8 - October 8, 2011
Venue: Joshua Liner Gallery


(c) Tomokazu Matsuyama

［Press Release］

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present East Weets Mest, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Matsuyama’s wildly colorful art relocates traditional Japanese icons and imagery into a broader international mix of styles, signs, and symbols. The spoonerism of the show’s title, East Weets Mest, playfully mimics this relocation and subsequent homogenization of cultural material, which Matsuyama identifies as a key force in contemporary life. “Urban centers are becoming increasingly familiar, with their patchwork of intermingling cultural signifiers,” says the artist. “This chaotic mix has become the everyday, where traditions and local signifiers dissolve into one another to make a unique new shape of today’s culture.”

In his dynamic acrylic-on-canvas paintings, Matsuyama blends the aesthetics of East and West, appropriating images from art history—the Edo and Meiji eras of traditional Japanese art, in particular—fused with postwar abstract expressionism and contemporary art movements, American animation, and subculture influences such as street art. Mr. Alpha and Mrs. Omega, for example, is an eye-popping tondo diptych featuring a pair of shishi, traditional temple “lion dogs.” These ancient figures take the form of guardian sculptures at the entrances to shrines, and are found in numerous cultures of the Far East. Signifying the beginning and the end, the eradication of evil, and the ever-expanding cosmos, the temple lion dogs are powerful symbols in Japanese Shintoism, Buddhism, and beyond. Here, Matsuyama’s friendly, Pop-style interpretation of the creatures is abstracted through the use of bright colors and patterned facets, and calls to mind the spirit of works by fellow dog lovers, artists George Rodrigue and William Wegman.

In Toys and Candy, an epic painting measuring 15-x-6 feet, Matsuyama appropriates a classic image of propaganda from the Meiji period—a woodblock from 1894 that depicts Japan defeating its other Asian neighbors. Here, the artist has transformed this nationalist message into a contest among juveniles, their swords beaten not into ploughshares but toys and candy. Awash in whimsical colors, cartoon faces, baseball caps, and popular slogans (“just do it”), the epic work nonetheless harbors disturbing vestiges of the classic print, including an exact likeness of the original composition.

In a further critique of the abuses of power, Matsuyama offers a new sculptural work entitled Money Talks. Here, a traditional Japanese sage/saint, or sennin, is depicted life-size in FRP (fiber-reinforced plastic). But instead of carrying the traditional scroll, a symbol of the saint’s redemption through Buddhist teachings, the artist’s appropriated figure carries a Western-style piggy bank and is accompanied by the figure of a resting deer, a Shinto symbol of salvation. In Matsuyama’s contemporary interplay of East and West, the artist’s relationship to creativity, culture, and commerce is an ongoing question.

Tomokazu Matsuyama was born 1976 in Tokyo, Japan, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Selected solo exhibitions include: In Case You’re Lost, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco (2010); Glancing at the Twin Peak, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2009); Tokyo! Tokyo!! Tokyo!!!, Vacant, Tokyo (2009); Between the Polar, Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Chiba, Japan (2007); and Re-Union, Studio K, Tokyo (2005), among others. Selected group exhibitions include: SugiPOP!–The Influence of Anime and Manga on Contemporary Art, Portsmouth Museum of Art, New Hampshire (2010); Sacred Monsters: Everyday Animism in Contemporary Japanese Art and Anime, Aidekman Arts Center/Tufts University, Boston, and Draw, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City (both 2009); and Brave-Art, Telus Centre, Whistler, BC (2006).

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi "The Four Souvenirs and The Book"　will be on display until September 17th.


Major League Birdwatching / 2011 / production still


Major League Birdwatching, 2011
2 channel video installation, Cap, Vintage wood, Wood, Nail, 2 projectors, PC and Speaker
H92xW100xD50cm

FYI:
Also they are participating Yokohama Triennale 2011.

YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2011 -OUR MAGIC HOUR
Dates: 2011.8.6-11.6
Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art, NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK)

We are pleased to announce our new published book "Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi WORKS 2007 - 2011" .

You'll be able to find our book at our gallery and the shop at Yokohama Triennale for now.
For more information, please ask to gallery@tsca.jp or +81-3-6278-0136


Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011
128×144mm（Case 187×200×25mm）
Color／ 96P
Hardback
With Case and Magnifying
Price: 3900JPY + Tax
Design: Yoshihisa Tanaka
Publisher: Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
ISBN978-4-9905988-00-8

A Spoon Made From The Land, 2009
Video installation/ 11:00min., Iron spoon/ H16xW3.5xD2.3cm
In collaboration with Yamagishi Metal Casting Workshop


Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate "Yokohama Triennale 2011-OUR MAGIC HOUR-"

For more information, please visit Yokohama Triennale's website.

Yokohama Triennale 201 -OUR MAGIC HOUR-
Date: Sat, Aug 6th - Sun, Nov 6th 2011
Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Yokohama