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 >
‘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 >
A drop of humor for parched minds Text: Kojima Yayoi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi “I call these my instant diamonds. I collect plastic packages with nothing written on them. They’re no longer of any use, but when light shines on them,View More >
I tend to be in limbo to start with, and insert lies in each piece as I go along. Artist Sawa Hiraki is best known for films suffused with subtle smatterings of lyrical fabrication, commonly set in his own flat.View More >
A message of love for all eternity Text: Yanashita Tomoko Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Myriad lines extend unhesitatingly from the pen, forming repeating, multiplying, intricate patterns. The documentary film NEAR EQUAL KUSAMA YAYOI – I Adore Myself captures the artist inView More >
Things we have no choice but to call art Text: Yamagishi Kaoru (ART iT), Photo: Nagare Satoshi J 2009 (detail) Sumi, whitewash, metallic powder, and acrylic on washi 250 x 400 cm This year, an artist whose work is oftenView More >
A return to sculpture, and new departure for the future Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi Since appearing on the scene as one of a new generation of artists with sculptural roots, Odani Motohiko has continued to create works ofView More >
A bridge between art and pop culture: that what I want to be As China undergoes a process of rapid, radical urbanization and modernization, a young artist born and raised in the dynamic urban center of Guangzhou is building aView More >
I try to place the spectator in the dialogue, to make them find their own orientation. This Bangladesh-born, British artist and movie lover has produced a string of works referencing the history and vocabulary of film, focusing on the 14View More >