A world of ‘quiet mystery’ Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi If there were such an activity as creating quietness, then Michaël Borremans’ paintings could well serve as a model. The figures in his paintings, which are depicted with aView More >
Art Works! The world’s largest corporate collection Assembling over 50,000 works and displaying them in its offices rather than shutting them away to gather dust in a vault somewhere: this is how the world’s largest corporate art benefactor shows itsView More >
2009.1.31 – 3.6 Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo by Uchida Shinichi (ART iT) silts, 2009, Installation at Ota Fine Arts Courtesy the gallery [Text in Japanese only] Sawa Hiraki http://www.softkipper.com/ Ota Fine Arts http://www.otafinearts.com/
On This is Me, This is You Text: Matsuura Naomi This is Me, This is You consists of portraits of a young girl shot over a period of about two years. The photos were taken two at a time usingView More >
Invitation to a creative space Since its establishment in 1847, the French jeweler and watch manufacturer Cartier has continued to produce modern jewelry that is ahead of its time. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, which was founded as aView More >
Exhibiting the ‘now’ Text: Iida Shihoko Portrait: Nagare Satoshi On a wet spring night at the scene of his solo show, Wolfgang Tillmans stood surrounded by starstruck admirers. Flashing the same charming smile as his previous trip to Japan fourView More >
The balance between ethics and aesthetics Text: Matsuura Naomi Confronted by the deluge of images in the modern world, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar remains steadfastly skeptical of their use as spectacle. Taking images that offer a fragment, aView More >
Creative endeavor as game spectator Text: Yanashita Tomoko Portrait: Inoue Yoshikazu Tao Soju presents his work as head of OkamePro, an imaginary entertainment production company, and as one of the company’s stable of artists. The company has its origins inView More >
7.12 – 10.12 Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art Won Seoung Won Tomorrow – Village of dogs 2008 LightJet print 120 x 200 cm Group show featuring Korean artists born in the 1970s. The title alludes to antithetical concepts suchView More >
‘Once in a lifetime’ art marking time and memories Text: Ozaki Tetsuya Portrait: Ishikawa Natsuko Many of Miyanaga’s works, pale and ephemeral, vanish over the space of a few weeks. Take for example her objects made from napthalene. The semitransparentView More >