Matter-of-fact supernaturalism View of “Sato Masaharu: Trace – absence of presence/presence of absence” (2021) at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. Photo Naruki Oshima, courtesy Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. Viewing it again today, it isView More >
Minoru Onoda: The pulse of “Theory of Propagation Painting” a half-century later Minoru Onoda – Work 61-11 (1961), 91.4 x 133.1 x 7.4cm, collection Himeji City Museum of Art. Photo Shigefumi Kato. On May 15, 2021, eager toView More >
Art to help us live through these times Mine Oka and Shunzo Sato (Part 2) Shunzo Sato – Wako Dojin (Mingling with the world hiding the light of one’s wisdom and virtue), 2002. All photos: Mami Fukuzoe, courtesy ShunzoView More >
Art to help us live through these times Mine Oka and Shunzo Sato (Part 1) Mine Oka – (left) Night of a full moon – Lake Chapala, (right) Night of a full moon – ¡Adiós!. Installation view at the “98thView More >
ART/DOMESTIC 2021 MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2021, Tomioka, Fukushima. Photo: Noi Sawaragi. For me, it was as if the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 began the month before,View More >
Looking back on 2020: Covid-19 and the changing nature of our faces, hands and breath Michelangelo – The Creation of Adam (detail) (c. 1511). What exactly has changed about the way we go about our daily lives asView More >
“Rei Naito: Mirror Creation” – on a sunny day, on a rainy day Rei Naito – The spirit (2020). Installation view at “Rei Naito: Mirror Creation,” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. All images (except where otherwiseView More >
The COVID-19 pandemic and “Don’t Follow the Wind” – and then there were only “exhibitions that no-one can see” Current state of the Designated Waste Landfill Disposal Center (former Fukushima Eco-tech Clean Center), Tomioka, Fukushima. All photos: The writer.View More >
Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (3) Katsumi Sunamori – From the series “Unzen, Nagasaki” (1993-95) All images: © Katsumi Sunamori Photography Office I came to know about Katsumi Sunamori’s photo series concerning the Mount Unzen disasterView More >
Katsumi Sunamori – Implications of the Scenery (2) From Katsumi Sunamori Kama Tida: Osaka Nishinari (1989). All images: © Katsumi Sunamori Photography Office In my last column, I delved into the question, Who is Katsumi Sunamori? and discoveredView More >