Observations on Contemporary Art in Japan: Index 6: Collage, Pop Art, Clyfford Still: Kaneuji Teppei’s Post-Something at Shugo Arts 5: For the Shomei Tomatsu: Hues and Textures of Nagasaki exhibition Part III: Darkness and colors 4: For the Tomatsu Shomei:View More >
Yuichi Saito – Detective Konan (c 2005) pen on paper, 39.8 x 54.8 cm, private collection. Held at the National Art Center, Tokyo, the 42nd Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) ran from late October to the beginning of December 2010,View More >
Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part II) ANF 100465 (2010), Single channel HD digital video, 28 min 50 sec. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. At a time when, due to the virtual integration of digitalView More >
TO ENTER A VOID A letter from Hans Ulrich Obrist to Hou Hanru Absalon – Cellule No. 3 (1991), wood, cardboard, white dispersion paint, neon tube, Perspex, 133 x 161 x 240 cm; 34 x 25 x 179 cm. CourtesyView More >
Interior Homelands: Anish Kapoor in Mumbai and Delhi By Aveek Sen My Red Homeland (2003), wax and oil-based paint, hydraulic motor, steel block. Courtesy Anish Kapoor and Lisson Gallery, London. In Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, among the little stories about theView More >
Moving Photographs: Taiji Matsue’s ‘survey of time’ (Part I) JP-22 08 (2005), type C print, 50.2 x 61.1 cm. All images: © Taiji Matsue, courtesy Taro Nasu. Digital photography has routinely been discussed as a pair-concept alongside analog photography, whichView More >
The invisible union of flesh and eye: Jun Tsuzuki’s ‘New Eidos’ All images: Installation view of ” New Eidos” (2010) at Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo. Inside a cube-shaped exhibition space so small two or three people would probably fill it,View More >
To make this list I’m bypassing most art exhibitions, because I didn’t experience 2010 as particularly memorable in terms of purely visual art experiences. However, the year was quite aesthetically memorable for collaborations between visual artists and those working inView More >
Judy Annear is Senior Curator of Photography at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. What follows are her “Things Worth Remembering” for 2010: Yasumasa Morimura, “A Requiem: Art on Top of the Battlefield” Unexpected Visitors Morimura’s exhibition examiningView More >
Hu Fang is a fiction writer and co-founder of Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, as well as The Pavilion/the shop, Beijing. What follows are his “Things Worth Remembering” for 2010, Every Day Except Christmas: January: Miracles that slip through the cracksView More >
Viewing the Setouchi International Art Festival (Part II) Yasuhiro Suzuki – Ship of the Zipper (2010) By now it’s significantly cooler, but the Seto Inland Sea was still gripped by a heat wave when I visited in early September, andView More >
For the forgetting of memory, and the separation of arrival By Hu Fang Full Name Jun Yang and Soldier Woods (2002), DVD approx 9 min. Produced for Manifesta 4, 2002. All images: courtesy the artist and Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing/Guangzhou.View More >