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:
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
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
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.
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
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
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 in
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
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 cracks
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,
The lost world of the radio cassette player HITACHI TRK-W4U, (ca.1984), 50 x 15 cm Whenever a story like “Pakistanis collect stolen cars to secretly ship offshore” or “Bulk bicycles found bound for North Korea on the Mangyongbong-92”
Video WallPaik By Barbara London A version of this text previously appeared in the publication The Electronic Super Highway – Travels with Nam June Paik (Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, and Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, 1994). The author has revisited