“My idea was to produce a reportage painting that would chronicle Japan’s relationship with nuclear power. I think it’s the same for anybody, but something that starts out as a shocking event will fade from memory over the years. In order to resist that, I wanted to make a reportage painting ghastly enough to immediately recall the terror and foreboding of the time for viewers.”
Halfway Happy Vol.5 Daisuke Takahashi: RELAXIN’
2 OCT – 18 DEC 2021
gallery αM, Tokyo
Curator: Arata Hasegawa (Independent Curator)
Pipilotti Rist: Your Eyes is My Island
20 SEP – 17 OCT 2021
Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
Curator: Oko Goto (Curator, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito)
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 >
Ordinary than Paradise: As if Nothing Happened
29 AUG – 3 OCT 2021
akibatamabi21, Tokyo
Halfway Happy vol.4 Yu Araki
18 JUN – 22 SEP 2021
gallery αM, Tokyo
Curator: Arata Hasegawa (Independent Curator)
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 >
Tokyo is getting a new, citywide art initiative, it was announced Aug. 25. Scheduled for Nov. 4–7, the inaugural Art Week Tokyo will be a showcase of one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic art scenes.
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 >
After a delay due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the winners of the 19th Taishin Arts Award were announced in a livestream presentation on Jul 10. The award is one of Taiwan’s most prestigious honors in the fields of art and culture, conferring NTD 1.5 million to a grand prize laureate and NTD 1 million each to laureates in the visual arts and performing arts categories.
