“Takehisa Kosugi 2022” and Kiyoshi Izumi’s SOMA Scene from “Takehisa Kosugi 2022” (Hall Egg Farm, Saitama, October 15, 2022). GC (left) and Kiyoshi Izumi (right) performing Takehisa Kosugi’s South, e.v. (1999). Photo: Kiyotoshi Takashima, courtesy HEAR. TakehisaView More >
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The “failure’ of shosoku – Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver View of the Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver performance Failure due to backroom deal of “BODY” held between 16:00 and 16:30 on Friday, November 13, 2022, at the former Daiichi Bank Yokohama Branch.View More >
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Speed and Eros – Rikako Kawauchi and Phaedrus Installation view of Rikako Kawauchi’s solo exhibition “Colours in summer” at Tsutaya Books, Ginza Atrium, Tokyo, 2022. All images: Shintaro Yamanaka (Qsyum!) ©︎Rikako Kawauchi, courtesy the artist and WAITINGROOM. IView More >
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“Smallness” and “largeness” – On Tatsuo Kawaguchi’s “relations” Installation view of “Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Relation” at Shigeru Yokota Gallery, Tokyo, 2022. ©︎Tatsuo Kawaguchi, courtesy Shigeru Yokota Gallery. I’ve recently had the opportunity to view in succession a number of oldView More >
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Back to ‘The Art of Ground Zero’ – War, Plague, Nuclear Energy MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2022, Tomioka, Futaba, Fukushima. Photo courtesy: MOCAF. On March 11 this year, eleven years after the Tohoku earthquakeView More >
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Matter-of-fact supernaturalism View of “Sato Masaharu: Trace – absence of presence/presence of absence” (2021) at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. Photo Naruki Oshima, courtesy Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito. Viewing it again today, it isView More >
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Minoru Onoda: The pulse of “Theory of Propagation Painting” a half-century later Minoru Onoda – Work 61-11 (1961), 91.4 x 133.1 x 7.4cm, collection Himeji City Museum of Art. Photo Shigefumi Kato. On May 15, 2021, eager toView More >
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Art to help us live through these times Mine Oka and Shunzo Sato (Part 2) Shunzo Sato – Wako Dojin (Mingling with the world hiding the light of one’s wisdom and virtue), 2002. All photos: Mami Fukuzoe, courtesy ShunzoView More >
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Art to help us live through these times Mine Oka and Shunzo Sato (Part 1) Mine Oka – (left) Night of a full moon – Lake Chapala, (right) Night of a full moon – ¡Adiós!. Installation view at the “98thView More >
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ART/DOMESTIC 2021 MOCAF (Museum of Contemporary Art Fukushima), March 11, 2021, Tomioka, Fukushima. Photo: Noi Sawaragi. For me, it was as if the tenth anniversary of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11 began the month before,View More >