Themes of life and death, past and future, everyday and festive. A drive to produce art for the next generation. Photo Nagare Satoshi We spoke to the artist selected to represent Japan at this year’s Venice Biennale about her approachView More >
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Ando Tadao and Sugimoto Hiroshi in conversation
Creating an alternative world: What is the ideal art museum architecture? An architect who’s designed numerous art museums and a contemporary artist who brought us the photographic series Architecture and who’s recently branched out into design. Here, these two creatives,View More >
Friends of the arts: Hermes
‘The maison must be constantly filled with art’ Hermes, a company dedicated to the manufacture of high-quality goods by outstanding craftsmen, has grown to become one of the world’s leading luxury brands. In this issue we explore the company’s artView More >
Aoyama Satoru
Stitches in time Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Aoyama Satoru’s astonishing embroideries made using an old sewing machine are frequently described as indistinguishable from paintings. In the intricate detail of his works, invariably one glimpses a more conceptual sideView More >
SANAA
Navigating the future Text: Onishi Wakato Photo Ikeda Masanori “The question is how best to navigate the imminent future, in terms of both plans and the qualities of materials.” When Nishizawa Ryue uttered these words, I felt as though IView More >
Shiriagari Kotobuki’s Unsolicited Proposals: Index
No.1: The staff https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/ro9baVtZumc61zBIfEYJ/ No.2: Contemporary ‘hot spring’ art museum https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/g9HEQDCGvTedNVR4l3oZ/ No.3: Announcing the results of our ‘unsolicited proposal’ selection! (Round 1) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/RgBblqtL2My70znPcC5i/ No.4: Announcing the results of our ‘unsolicited proposal’ selection! (Round 2) https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/admin_columns_e/BMSOYrQoRsAZ9ud06Dgq/ No.5: Announcing the results ofView More >
Hundred Stories about Love
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Shimabuku Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Pulse Room, 2006 Funakoshi Katsura Suzuki Hiraku GENGA (001-900), 2008 Yamamoto Motoi 100 Labyrinths, 2009
Curators on the Move: Index
A correspondence between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hou Hanru Two star curators who’ve worked together on exhibitions such as Cities on the Move, and have each presented a stream of epoch-making shows on cities, culture and life; two minds ceaselesslyView More >
An ultra-brief review of the 53rd Venice Biennale
2009.6.7-11.22 Giardini (Gardens) and Arsenale (national shipyards of the Venetian Republic era), Venice by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) The theme for this Biennale is ‘Making Worlds’. Artistic director Daniel Birnbaum has said this was inspired by Nelson Goodman’s Ways ofView More >
Carsten Nicolai
Crossing genres with ease Text: Kunisaki Susumu Carsten Nicolai came to Japan in December on a live tour for his label raster-noton. 2008 also saw his installation invertone put on display at ICC, and Nicolai himself readily acknowledges his affectionView More >
Roe Ethridge
A fugue of flowers and horses Text: Yamauchi Hiroyasu Off the coast of the US state of Georgia lies Cumberland Island, home to hundreds of once domesticated horses that over time turned wild. Roe Ethridge’s focus on this equine communityView More >
Kaneuji Teppei
The pleasure of 1 + 1 > 2 Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi From comical yet somehow subversive works boldly combining familiar manufactured goods such as PET bottles and action figures, to a magical series wildly joining wood inView More >