‘E-Baka’ May 6 to June 5, 2010 Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo Ash Color Mountain (Work in Progress) (2009- ), acrylic on canvas, 300 x 700 cm. An artist of prodigious technical proficiency, Makoto Aida generally employs his talent to perverseView More >
Reviews
‘Rem(a)inders’
April 10 to August 29, 2010 Galleria Continua, Beijing Michelangelo Pistoletto – Rem(a)inders (2010), metal Buddha sculpture, used clothes, electrical components, wood, variable dimensions. Since it opened in 2005, the Beijing branch of Italy’s Galleria Continua has been known asView More >
Morimura Yasumasa A Requiem: Art on top of the battlefield
11 March – 9 May 2010 Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography http://syabi.com by Yamagishi Kaoru A Requiem: Remembrance Parade/1945, USA 2010 Since the mid-1980s Morimura Yasumasa has explored the possibilities of Japanese artistic expression beginning in the imitation of WesternView More >
APT 6
The 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art 2009.12.5 – 2010.4.5 Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) http://qag.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/current/apt6 by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Gallery of Modern Art First staged in 1993 and being held for the sixth time,View More >
Medicine and Art
Imagining a Future for Life and Love 2009.11.28 – 2010.2.28 Mori Art Museum (Tokyo) http://www.mori.art.museum by Hashimoto Kazumichi (Researcher, Studies of Culture and Representation) Photo Watanabe Osamu, courtesy Mori Art Museum Contrary to what its subtitle suggests, Medicine and ArtView More >
8 Days – Beuys in Japan
2009.10.31 – 2010.1.24 Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito http://www.arttowermito.or.jp/art by Sanbonmatsu Tomoyo (Associate curator, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama) SHIGEO ANZAI 2 JUNE 1984 The Japanese introduction to Joseph Beuys (1921-86) began in the 1970s throughView More >
Naito Rei
Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l’eau à l’intérieur de l’eau 14 November 2009 – 24 January 2010 Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura http://www.moma.pref.kanagawa.jp by Shirasaka Yuri (Art writer) The spirit 2009 (2006 -) Photo Hatakeyama Naoya TheView More >
Tabaimo: Danmen
2009.12.11 – 2010.3.3 Yokohama Museum of Art http://www.yaf.or.jp/yma by Shinsan Nameko (Manga artist, columnist) Akunin Installation view of Yokohama Museum of Art 2009 © Ufer! Art Documentary, Courtesy the artist and Gallery Koyanagi In Danmen Tabaimo has delivered a showView More >
CREAM International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama
2009. 10.31 – 11.29 Shinko Pier, BankART Studio NYK, Tokyo Geidai Graduate School of Film and New Media (Bashamichi Campus), Nogeyama Zoo http://ifamy.jp/ by Uchida Shinichi (ART iT) Graffiti Research Laboratory (GRL) Photo: Kioku Keizo Courtesy: International Festival for ArtsView More >
Lyon Biennale X
The Spectacle of the Everyday 2009.9.16 – 2010.1.3 La Sucrière, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bichat Warehouse, Bullukian Foundation (Lyon, France) http://www.biennaledelyon.com/contemporaryart2009/ by Yu Hsiao-hwei (Paris-based independent art writer) Founded in 1991, the Lyon Biennale is celebrating its 10th anniversary withView More >