Dates: March 19. Tue – April 13. Sat, 2013
Opening Hours: 12:00 – 19:00
Closing Dates: Sunday, Monday and Public Holidays
5th Floor, 1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto,
Tokyo 135-0024
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Now we are having the show of “The ShugoArts Show recent works / early works”.

press image of THE CRIMSON SUN, 2013
Courtesy of the artist and ShugoArts

Dates: 26 January – 2 March, 2013
Opening Hours:　12:00-19:00
Closing Dates: Sunday, Monday and Public Holidays
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ShugoArts is pleased to present "THE CRIMSON SUN," an exhibition featuring the work of two artists, Taguchi Kazuna and Iwanaga Tadasuke.
This exhibition is the culmination of a an idea that Taguchi had in the spring of 2011, when she was residing in Budapest and Iwanaga was in Kyushu Prefecture researching magic.

Since returning in February 2012 from a one-year residence in Vienna, Taguchi has been experimenting with the use of chemical processing to colorize the silver halide in black and white photographic paper. In her work titled blueness of the blue, which is currently included in the group show "somewhere between me and this world" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the blue-colored image she achieved from a reaction between the potassium ferricyanide and iron ions during toning is still unstable and continues to change. At "THE CRIMSON SUN," Taguchi will display works that have been made using her usual technique of photographing a painting she has made but that have also gone through a further stage of colorizing using developing and toning techniques.

For Tadasuke Iwanaga, this is his first exhibition since the National Museum of Art, Osaka's "Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s," which was held three years ago. "Hexagram," a series he painted in 2007, suggests through the use of color a hexagram being burned or destroyed. Meanwhile, his 2008 work, "Anno Domini 2008," conveys the artist's belief that information conveyed solely by the subtle use of color can nevertheless stimulate and liberate the senses. In "THE CRIMSON SUN" his layering of transparent colors gives way to a complex illusion, by which the colors appear to be continually changing. Titled heptagram, the work takes its name from a shape that is theoretically impossible.
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Born in 1979 in Tokyo. Taguchi graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a Ph.D. in painting. She currently resides and works in Tokyo. Taguchi spent one year in Vienna in 2011 after receiving the "Shinjin" (Most Promising Talent) Award, Fine Art Division at the Gotoh Commemorative Culture Award operated by The Gotoh Memorial Foundation. She has also recently received a scholarship in the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists and is planning to reside in Vienna for a further three years from March. Major solo exhibitions include "It is as it is" at ShugoArts (2009) and "Half in Gray" at void + (2009). Major group exhibitions include "somewhere between me and this world" at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (till Jan. 27), Yokohama Triennale: Our Magic Hour (2011), "Mr. Freedom X" at A+ (2009), and "Trace Elements" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2008) and The Performance Space, Sydney (2008).

Born in 1979 in Saga Prefecture. In 2008, Iwanaga graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a Ph.D. in painting. Since 2001 he has been active in the rock band “Mamidori Ulithi empress yonaguni san.” Major music activities include "123 fairy tail chimidoro phenomenon satan Inferno dress ha cattlemurarete yggdrasill wa sasaru" (2012) and "Summer Mountain, Summer Sea" (as a solo artist, 2010). Major solo exhibitions include "one eyed imp" at LISTE09 (2009), "Sora no yurei ishi no katana, hinoki no bo" (Ghost of Sky, Sword of Stone, Stick of Spear) at T&S Gallery (2008), "TAKJIRO" at magical ARTROOM (2007) and "Henji, mugon," (Reply, silence,) at Gallery Kaku (2004). Major group exhibitions include "Garden of Painting: Japanese Art of the 00s" at National Museum of Art, Osaka (2010). He has curated exhibitions such as "Chisei" (Intellect) at island (2009) and "Mr. FREEDOM X" at A+ (2009). In 2007, he published the manga "Takajiro."

TAGUCHI Kazuna >>

IWANAGA Tadasuke >>

Dates: November 2. Fri – 30. Fri, 2012
Opening Hours:　12:00-19:00
Closing Dates: Sunday, Monday and Public Holidays
ShugoArts
5th Floor ,1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto,
Tokyo 135-0024
tel: 03-5621-6434　
web: http://shugoarts.com
e-mail: info@shugoarts.com

ShugoArts is pleased to present "Silver flame" a solo show of the artist Leiko IKEMURA.

Dates: September 1.Sat – October 19. Fri, 2012
Opening Hours:　12:00-19:00
Closing Dates: Sunday, Monday and Public Holidays
ShugoArts
5th Floor ,1-3-2 Kiyosumi, Koto,
Tokyo 135-0024
tel: 03-5621-6434　
web: http://shugoarts.com
e-mail: info@shugoarts.com

ShugoArts is pleased to present "location / dislocation" a solo show of the artist Mitsuhiro IKEDA.

*The period of Mitsuhiro IKEDA’s solo will be extended from Tue 9th Oct. to Fri 19th Oct. with a new installation.

July 7. Sat - August 4. Sat, 2012
ShugoArts is pleased to present "An Earth of Eating" a solo show of the artist Aki KONDO.


Aki KONDO, An Earth of Eating, 2012, oil on panel, 227.3×436.5cm


Aki KONDO, The Homeland of Cherry Blossoms, 2012, oil on panel, 227.3x909cm

May 12. Sat – June 23. Sat, 2012
ShugoArts is pleased to present “Something on the Planet” a new solo show of Teppei Kaneuji.

March 17. Sat – April 28. Sat, 2012
ShugoArts is pleased to present "LOVE more awful! And more beautiful because painting is all for love, Spring 2012." a solo show of the artist Masato KOBAYASHI.

ShugoArts is pleased to present “recording line of sight,” a group exhibition featuring Chen Chieh-jen, Yukio Fujimoto, Kazuna Taguchi and Shigeo Toya, from February 14 through March 10.


CHEN Chieh-jen　Empire’s Borders II – Passage
2010, Color photograph, 85x150cm, ed.2/7


Yukio FUJIMOTO　light-P
2011, albumen print, 16.1×22.6cm


Shigeo TOYA　Cave
2010, wood ashes, acrylic, 49x73x12cm

ShugoArts is pleased to present "4 artists show -painting-".


IKEZAKI Takuya　Air on The square
2011, cloth pattern, cycad, wood,origami paper, various decorations, used up fluorescent, etc, 70x70x90cm


Tomohito ISHII　Subimage (plant)
2011, oil on canvas, 194x130.3cm


Shinichiro KANO　cartography
2011, oil on canvas, 194x162.5cm


Aki KONDO　Legendary Woman
2011, oil on panel, 91x65cm

ShugoArts is pleased to present "Japanese House" a solo show of the artist Tomoko YONEDA.