Japanese Portraits: Ryuichi Ishikawa, Shinichiro Uchikura, Yosuke Harada I once referred to the tendency among the generation of photographers from the likes of Takashi Yasumura (b. 1972) to the subject of my previous column, Yosuke Takeda (b. 1982), which wasView More >
II. The Makes (2009), HD video, 26 min. All images: Courtesy Eric Baudelaire. ART iT: It seems that Japan, specifically your residence at the Institut Français in Japan’s Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2008, was a big experience for youView More >
In Kumamoto-shi Museum of Contemporary Art gallery III, I hold “パープルーム size 学II” exhibition as the 100th exhibition. “パープルーム” is “the protean ideal community” where intersection させなから, artists oneself create an exhibition, an atelier, a class, a homepage, publication, cookingView More >
A LANDSCAPE, CUT AND FOLDED By Andrew Maerkle The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011), Super 8 and HD video, 66 min. All images: Courtesy Eric Baudelaire. Beginning his career in artView More >
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS By Andrew Maerkle Installation view at the Yokohama Triennale 2014. All images: Photo courtesy Elias Hansen. Born in 1979 in Tacoma, Washington, and now based in Upstate New York, Elias Hansen is known for his installationsView More >
21 C. UILENSPIEGEL By Andrew Maerkle Flatbed Trailer (2007), installation view at the Yokohama Triennale 2014. Photo ART iT. Known as an art world trickster, Wim Delvoye has made works ranging from X-ray photographs of people having sex to gasView More >
THE WORLD’S LARGEST CINEMA By Andrew Maerkle Staircase (2005). Photo Kioku Keizo, Courtesy the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. All images: ©Leandro Erlich Studio. Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Leandro Erlich makes works that combine elements ofView More >
BUILT WITH YOU IN MIND By Andrew Maerkle Art Bin (2010/14), installation view at the Yokohama Museum of Art. Photo Yuichiro Tanaka, courtesy the Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale. Born in 1963 and based in London, Michael Landy is bestView More >
Spirited movie director Michel Gon Dolly known as music video of Bjork and movie “エターナル sunshine.” By “a round-the-world trip of Michel Gon Dolly,” I introduce the world of his original imagination entirely in display space varying in two. PartView More >
The Japanese conceptual artist On Kawara died in New York City at the age of 81, it was learned on Jul 10. Born in 1933 in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, Kawara began his career as a member of Tokyo’s postwar avant-gardeView More >
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES By Andrew Maerkle 21KE (2010), animation, 27 minutes. All images: Courtesy Sun Xun and π Animation Studio, Beijing. Born in 1980 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, and educated at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Sun Xun isView More >
8th Berlin Biennale 29 MAY – 3 AUG 2014 http://www.berlinbiennale.de/ Messen Dahlem – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Beatriz González Particular Photographs – Model A (2014) Anri Sala UNRAVEL (2013) Anri Sala UNRAVEL (2013) Iman Issa, From the series Lexicon (2012-ongoing)View More >