Painter and ‘counterfeiter’ – On ‘Makoto Aida: Monument for Nothing’ (Part 2) Aida Makoto – Dog (Snow) (1998), mineral pigments and acrylic on Japanese paper and board, 73 × 100 cm. Photo Kei Miyajima, © Makoto Aida, courtesy Mizuma ArtView More >
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The meaning of photography, or, B(latent)-horror effects (2) One can detect in Lieko Shiga’s photographs any number of effects familiar to us from “creepy photography.” Streaming light, water, etc. (ectoplasm, ethereal bodies, mysterious light, blood, liquid, etc.) Above: From theView More >
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Painter and ‘counterfeiter’ – On ‘Makoto Aida: Monument for Nothing’ (Part 1) Installation view of “Aida Makoto: Monument for Nothing” at the Mori Art Museum. Courtesy Mizuma Art Gallery. Photo Osamu Watanabe, courtesy Mori Art Museum. The exhibition “Makoto Aida:View More >
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The meaning of photography, or, B(latent) horror effects (1) Installation view of “Lieko Shiga: Rasen Kaigan.” Photo Lieko Shiga, courtesy Sendai Mediatheque Photographs are endowed with both a certain physical substantivity, to the extent that they are “traces” left byView More >
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A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 10) Nukes and Niigata III Anne Graham – Shinohara’s House (2012) Installation view at the Kozaburo Shinohara House, Gokahama, Niigata. Photo courtesy the Water and Land – Niigata Art Festival organizing committeeView More >
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On ‘reproduction’ – The tea bowls of Kohei Nakamura (Part 2) Kohei Nakamura – Red Raku tea bowl (2012) Kazuo Yagi wrote an interesting essay on the subject of “reproduction”: On Kiyomizu-zaka there was an artist skilled in “reproduction.” HisView More >
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Takashi Azumaya – the ‘being and temperature’ Shinro Ohtake – Dub-Hei & New Chanel (1999) (detail). Installation view at “Art/Domestic – Temperature of the Time” (Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo) Photo: Masataka Nakano, courtesy Setagaya Art Museum. The independent curator TakashiView More >
Rememberance: Takashi Azumaya (1968-2012)
The independent curator Takashi Azumaya died on October 16 of this year. Organized by Azumaya at the Setagaya Art Museum in 1999, “Art / Domestic: Temperature of the Time” remains one of the defining exhibitions of the 1990s. Also workingView More >
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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 >
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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 >