Joan Jonas interview with ARTiT 　
REFLECTIONS FROM THE MIRROR ROOM

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Luc Tuymans
"The Spill"



2013.3.23
18.9x11.6cm 72P ISBN: 978-4-902070-42-2
￥1,500.-

Teacups 2012, oil on canvas, Triptych: 65 x 117 cm

Luc Tuymans "The Spill"

23, March 2013 - 2, May 2013

Video still from Reanimation, 2012


Joan Jonas "Reanimation"


Opening Saturday, February 2, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Joan Jonas. This will be the artist’s fourth solo show at the gallery, and will present a multimedia installation of her most recent work Reanimation, featuring her latest videos, drawings and sculptures.

Born in 1936 in New York, Joan Jonas studied art history at Mount Holyoke and later sculpture at Columbia University; she was involved in the 1960s and 70s experimental dance and performance movement and worked with artists such as Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Philip Glass. Jonas works in a variety of mediums in various locations: indoor and outdoor performances; videos through monitors, as well as projected and overlaid; drawings in the studio and in performances; photographs and props documenting the performances that have taken place. Through these wide-ranging forms, Jonas makes references to a plethora of sources, from Icelandic folklore (Volcano Saga, 1985-1989) to H.D and Greek mythology (Lines in the Sand, 2002), to Aby Warburg (The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2005) to formulate her own visual narratives.

Inspired by the 1968 novel Under the Glacier by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, Reanimation is composed of videos employed in a performance that was first presented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall of 2010. The performance then incorporated live camera animation method developed for Reading Dante (which was presented at the Yokohama Triennale in 2008), and overlaying of her earlier videos such as Disturbances (1973) and Melancholia (2005), as well as a collage of objects, images and words. The performance was later staged at documenta 13 at Kassel, Germany in 2012, accompanied by live music of jazz pianist Jason Moran and Glacier, new video shot in the Arctic Circle; Jonas also presented installations in the windows of a small house in Karlsaue Par. The single-room installation at Wako Works of Art is deliberated so that the audience will now experience the work from inside.

Jonas’s recent performances include Lines in the Sand at Documenta 11, Kassel (2002), Kitchen, New York and Tate, London (2004); The Shapes, the Scent, the Feel of Things at Dia:Beacon in New York (2005, 2006) and House of World Cultures, Berlin (2008); Reading Dante at the 16th Biennale of Sydney and Yokohama Triennale (2008); and Reanimation at MIT (2010), documenta 13 (2012). She has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2006), MACBA, Barcelona (2008) and Museum of Modern Art, New York (2009-10). She also has an exhibition They Came to Us Without a Word at CCA Kitakyushu, where she stayed for their artist in residency program.

This exhibition is made possible by the generous cooperation of Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu.

Please join us for a reception for the artist on Saturday, February 2, from 6pm to 8pm.

For full press kit and reproduction quality images, please contact the gallery at +81-6447-1820 or info@wako-art.jp.

A memory exhibition of the 20th anniversary of the open corridor held, a catalogue of Gerhard Richter "New Strip Paintings and 8 Glass Panels" become the release in the beginning of February.
I add it to a plate and the display scenery of the "Museum Visit"22 point announced in Tate modishness in Richter most new work "Strip" of the first public exhibition in Japan and three-dimensional work "8 Glass Panels", 2012 of eight pieces of glass, and a text by Sumi Hayashi (independence curator) is recorded in the production process of the work. Forest size Shiro dealt with the design.


I start selling by subscription at our art gallery.
Because it will be (January 26) until tomorrow, the exhibition come by all means at this opportunity.


※The details inform it later in HP on a sale date.

このたびワコウ・ワークス・オブ・アートでは、開廊20周年記念展『ゲルハルト・リヒター　New Strip Paintings and 8 Glass Panels』の会期中、当画廊発行の既刊書籍を特別価格の１２００円でご提供いたします。
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展覧会：
Gerhard Richter ゲルハルト・リヒター
“New Strip Paintings and 8 Glass Panels”
会期：１２月８日～1月２６日

また、１２月下旬にはゲルハルト・リヒター展覧会カタログの刊行も予定しております(価格未定)。
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Gerhard Richter　
"New Strip Paintings and 8 Glass Panels"



December 8, 2012 - January 26, 2013
closed on Sun., Mon. and national holidays

*Winter Holidays December 28 - January 7

Seven Yokoi greens "POWDER"
Saturday, October 20, 2012 - Saturday, November 17



Nana Yokoi
Candle
2012, oil on canvas
53 x 45.5cm


I start first private exhibition "Powder" due to seven Yokoi greens on Saturday, October 20, 2012 by ワコウ works of art.

Early in production, seven Yokoi greens which made a picture by the drawing a work made drawing itself a work later and gradually enlarged expression means by performing the production of the painting more.

Yokoi locates a mermaid and a girl, a boy, a butterfly and a moth, a beetle, a bird, a candle or flame in the fantasic world including the poison that I opened to a non-everyday border every day and lets each confront it and it is careful and investigates own and world relation by letting you interfere it depending on the situation that occurred there. In addition, it is many drawing works that it may be said that I do the origin of her expression in the painting work which in late years wrestles energetically that Yokoi chose as a display work in first private exhibition "Powder" at this time when I named the title which reminds you of the scales of the feather of a butterfly drawn on some new works.

Yokoi keeps balance of the form and content in a painting work at the spot where is close to estrangement while investigating the influence that a medium called paint having a feeling of material and the feel of a material that are stronger than a pencil gives the expression world that is warm in フラジャイル which own builds and brings about strong feeling of strain by letting you compete. And, in the drawing work with the pencil, I am given reliable presence by the element of the story that delicate, fresh and young sensitivity has a glimpse behind abundance of detail lined in a high technique and a gesture and the scene setting of a person and creatures to appear and gets and show agreement of the form and content.

A sense of the behavior that got more like a cruel ceremony at the time of girl and biology to come up in a work and the freshness to be common to all works, and to be provided with. The desire to the abbreviation of the explanatory element and the story that a sense of reality that something is right performed brings now. And the world where it is like I / poetry to appear by a technique high and the interaction of the fable-like style. Many every one point that I can never catch elements letting appreciation need time having a long it brings a stare and repetition of the reinterpretation to a person of appreciation only by having had a look at it and brings about a toxic high intoxication state.


Seven Yokoi greens
It was born in Aichi for 1,983 years. Tama University of Arts oil painting specialty is a graduate for 2,006 years. For a main exhibition "インシデンタル a fair" (2009, Suntory museum, Osaka), "from/to #4" (2007, Wako Works of Art), "GRASS HOPPER" (2003, atelier grasshopper, Tokyo), "naive art exhibition" (2004, pepper storehouse gallery, Tokyo).) A private exhibition first this time.

"Two birds, a stone and a horse", curated by Henk Visch
Ayşe Erkmen, Kristina Berning, Henk Visch
September 8 - October 13, 2012

Reception for the artists:
September 8, 6-8 PM


Henk Visch
Miss universe
2011, metal, mixed media
H: 130 cm


Ayşe Erkmen
On Its Own, 2011 (detail)
archival pigment prints mounted on aluminum
29.7 x 21 cm (each)
Courtesy the artist and Rampa Istanbul
Photo by Cemal Emden


Kristina Berning
Untitled, 2012
concrete, wood
coloured plaster
H 209 cm

Opening Saturday, September 8, 2012, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to announce its forthcoming three-person exhibition,

Two birds, a stone and a horse

, curated by the gallery’s artist Henk Visch. This exhibition will present new and recent works by Kristina Berning, Ayşe Erkmen and Visch himself. This will also mark the beginning of the gallery’s 20th anniversary program.

Henk Visch, born in Eindhoven in 1950, has participated in numerous art festivals and has been the subject of solo exhibitions, most recently at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort, has shown at Wako Works of Art in six solo exhibitions. Visch’s sculptures are figurations of man’s vast emotions, psyche and intentions. He utilizes materials such as bronze, iron and aluminium to render his unique sense of the uncanny, reality and humour. This exhibition will present Visch's new drawings and sculptural pieces made of bronze, metal wires and other media.

Ayşe Erkmen was born in Turkey in 1949, and is currently based in Istanbul and Berlin. She has recently represented the Turkish Pavilion in the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), and more familiarly has shown in the Echigo-Tsumari Triennale in Niigata in 2006. Her work is based on the use of readymade materials and their transformation through her site-specific installations, as well as the audience’s mental and physical responses. In this exhibition, she will be presenting a large image installation On Its Own that questions the structure of the online image database uncovered by search engines; a sound installation Ewig Dein (“Forever Yours”), and a sculpture piece.

Born in 1984 in Saerbeck, Germany, Kristina Berning studied with Henk Visch at Kunstakademie Münster, where she graduated with an MFA in 2010. Her objects, made from everyday materials such as wood, plaster and found objects, are assembled fragile and true to the raw materials used; her work challenges the viewers to disregard the notion of mimesis that Western art has long striven to achieve. Berning received the GWK Art Award and exhibited in a two-person show at Museum Marta Herford in 2011; she had a solo show at Kunstverein Greven earlier this year. She is currently based in Berlin. New and recent works by Berning will be exhibited at this time.

In Two birds, a stone and a horse, three artists from differing backgrounds and processes of production, come together in their sculptural installation that exhibit that they are essentially unrestrained and unbound by the conventions of form and presentation.

Please join us for a reception for the three artists on Saturday, September 8, 2012 from 6pm to 8pm.

This exhibition is sponsored in part by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Japan.