On “reproduction” – The tea bowls of Kohei Nakamura (Part 1) Kohei Nakamura – Wall: Rules of Form (2012). Foreground:Throne of Idea (2004). Installation view at “Art Crafting Towards the Future (2012) at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 9) Nukes and Niigata II Otomo Yoshihide x Ameya Norimizu tachi – Smile (2012). Photographed July 16, 2012. All photos: Isamu Murai, courtesy the Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival organizingView More >
Frames ≠ layers: The photography of Tamotsu Kido Born in 1974 and a graduate of the oil painting course at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music, Tamotsu Kido is familiar to those in the know as a photographer.View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 8) Nukes and Niigata I Still from Casting Blossoms to the Sky. © Nagaoka Film Commission / PSC. August 6, 2012, 8.15am. At this time, exactly 67 years after the dropping ofView More >
Critical Fieldwork 28 Neither decolorized nor faded – The latest color photographs by Daido Moriyama (Part 3) As is well known, Stieglitz “seceded” from pictorial photography that did no more than mimic symbolist or impressionist painting to pursue “the ideaView More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 7) Yusuke Nakahara and Nuclear Criticism II The feeling I get from the artwork at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of spaciousness. The festival is overturning the conventional wisdom that artworksView More >
Neither decolorized nor faded – The latest color photographs by Daido Moriyama (Part 2) Let us summarize the main points so far. 1) Looking back at Daido Moriyama’s “photographs of memories” from the second half of the 2000s onwards, weView More >
Neither decolorized nor faded – The latest color photographs by Daido Moriyama (Part 1) Daido Moriyama – Tokyo (2012) All images © Daido Moriyama, Courtesy of Taka Ishii Gallery and Office Daido. We often say things like “a single photograph”View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 6) Yusuke Nakahara and Nuclear Criticism I Yusuke Nakahara speaking at the symposium The Shape of the Art Museum of the Future (September 2010, Benesse House, Naoshima). Photo Osama Nakamura, courtesy theView More >
Pedro Reyes’ Puzzles By Octavio Zaya Installation view of Mutantes (Mutants, 2012) at LABOR, Mexico City. All images: Courtesy Pedro Reyes and LABOR, Mexico City. The Mexican gallery LABOR has opened its new space with a solo exhibition by PedroView More >
The World of Non-sensuous Similarity: Keisuke Matsuda’s Painting Keisuke Matsuda – Untitled (2008). All images: Courtesy the artist. When viewing an artist’s work for the first time, we inevitably measure their individuality according to some kind of standard of “proficiency.”View More >
A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 5) Iwaki Yumoto III On March 21 of this year I flew to Hakata with the artist Takashi Murakami. We went there to visit the artist Mokuma Kikuhata. As soon as weView More >