Issue 1: COMMUNICATION ART iT was founded as Japan’s only bilingual contemporary art periodical in 2003, and moved to an exclusively online platform in 2009. The past year’s experience has provided the editorial staff an opportunity to think deeply aboutView More >
Installation/Performance as Hadron By Natsuko Odate Performance still from the installation/performance Secrets of My Mother’s Child (2009). Photo Arturo Vidich, courtesy the artist. Aki Sasamoto is on the move. You could say this is only natural given thatView More >
Photo courtesy ART HK 10. (Hong Kong) Some time during the afternoon of May 25, a loud crash echoed through the third-level halls of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. As soon became clear to exhibitors setting upView More >
On May 30, Italy’s first national museum for contemporary art opened in Rome. Known as MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts was designed by Zaha Hadid, the Iraq-born, London-based Pritzker Prize-winning architect. Opening programs included the unveiling ofView More >
Born in 1972 in Tarnów, Poland, Wilhelm Sasnal is among a new generation of contemporary artists who emerged following the country’s transition from Communist to democratic rule in 1989. He is best known for making paintings that combine elementsView More >
I. Like Everyone Born in the 1940s, My Mother Was a Fan of Elvis Wilhelm Sasnal on the role of chance in documenting the world, and the connections between film, Land Art and painting. Installation view of Untitled (2007),View More >
II. Silent Landscapes Begin to Speak Wilhelm Sasnal discusses visualizing history and the ‘ethos of painting.’ Moscice 1 (2005), oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm. Courtesy collection Fundação de Serralves – Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto. ARTView More >
III. Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Grievances Wilhelm Sasnal addresses the influence of music on his artistic development and walking the line between the trivial and significant. Untitled (2001), acrylic on canvas, 153 x 180 cm.View More >
Wilhelm Sasnal: Overturning the Everyday By Akiko Kasuya Untitled (The Concert) (2009), oil on canvas, 70 x 55 cm. Wilhelm Sasnal was born in 1972 in Tarnów, a small city just outside Poland’s former capital, Kraków. After studyingView More >
12 May – 1 August Multiple venues in Sydney Lightning Fields Illuminated 003 Black and white film with light box 177.8 x 111.8 x 10.2 cm Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi The largest exhibition in theView More >
Art fair Kaneshima Takahiro (b. 1977, Tokyo) Having established itself firmly on the springtime art calendar, Art Fair Tokyo is set to see new leadership when director of FEC (Far East Contemporaries) Kaneshima Takahiro takes over as theView More >
in Japan* Opening this week >Art museum/gallery list Kumazawa Mikiko 6.2 – 7.3 Mizuma Action（Nakameguro）[MAP] untitled (fl.s.d-021) © Yuichi Higashionna Courtesy Yumiko Chiba Associates Higashionna Yuichi: fluorescent / new prints & drawings 6.2 – 7.11 NADiff Gallery（Ebisu）[MAP] Yamashita Ritsuko 6.4View More >