2009.10.27 – 12.20 Shiseido Gallery http://www.shiseido.co.jp/gallery/html/ by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Live in RMB City 2009 Video, 24 min. © RMB City, Courtesy the artist and Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou/Beijing Live in RMB City is a further development on RMBView More >
Reviews
Aqua Metropolis Osaka 2009
2009.8.22 – 10.12 Nakanoshima Park http://www.suito-osaka2009.jp/ by Shinkawa Takashi Yanobe Kenji Lucky Dragon 2009 From midsummer to early autumn, a massive arts festival including several major music and film events ran at various locations around both the Kita and MinamiView More >
Nakaya Fujiko + dNA: MU
Nakaya Fujiko + doubleNegatives Architecture MU: Mercurial Unfolding 2009.9.24 – 10.31 L’Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo http://www.institut.jp/ja/evenements/9141 by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Mercurial Unfolding is a collaboration between the artist known as the ‘fog sculptor’ and an architecture group of self-proclaimedView More >
Ars Electronica / Japan Media Art Festival in Vienna
Ars Electronica Festival 2009.9.3 – 8 Linz, Austria (various locations) http://www.aec.at/festival_about_en.php Japan Media Art Festival in Vienna 2009.9.12 – 20 Vienna, Austria (MuseumsQuartier) http://plaza.bunka.go.jp/vienna/ by Philippe Codognet & Fukunaga Hiroko The small industrial city of Linz is the unexpected venueView More >
Shiota Chiharu: Flowing Water
2009.5.30 – 9.23 Nizayama Forest Art Museum http://www.town.nyuzen.toyama.jp/nizayama/ by Matsuura Naomi Flowing Water 2009 Photo Sunhi Mang Most of us begin life on a bed, sleep on a bed every night, and draw our last breath on one. Shiota ChiharuView More >
Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller
People Playing with the Dead 2009.7.18 – 9.27 Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery http://www.operacity.jp/ag/exh108/index.html by Hara Hisako Konoike Tomoko: Inter-Traveller – People Playing with the Dead 2009 Photo Nagare Satoshi, Courtesy Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery © Konoike Tomoko ThisView More >
Aoki Jun: Midsummer Plants
2009.8.1 – 9.5 TARO NASU (Tokyo) http://www.taronasugallery.com by Hosaka Kenjiro (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo) This summer, six metropolitan art galleries each organized architecture exhibitions under the common title Architect Tokyo. The Tomio Koyama Gallery, for example, showcasedView More >
Platform 2009
2009.9.3 – 25 Kimusa (DSC), Artsonje Center (Seoul) http://www.platformseoul.org/ by Ozaki Tetsuya (ART iT) Kang Jaegu Prologue #3 Portrait Shot 2009, 90x130cm, Inkjet print A group exhibition held every year since 2006 in Seoul’s foremost art district, Samcheong-dong. This yearView More >
Tezuka Aiko: Fragile Surface – Cat’s Cradle
2009.7.16 – 9.9 Kenji Taki Gallery (Tokyo) http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kenjitaki/ by Matsuura Naomi Fragile Surface (body 2) 2009 Stitching with thread pulled out from fabric, embroidery frame, cloth 80.5 x 181 cm At the Stitch by Stitch group exhibition currently on atView More >
Martin Creed
2009.5.23 – 7.20 Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art http://www.hcmca.cf.city.hiroshima.jp/web/index.html by Oshima Santo (Suntory Museum Tenpozan) Installation view of Martin Creed 2009 Courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Photo Omote Nobutada To be honest my first impression, having takenView More >