Archives: Noi Sawaragi

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

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 >

A Restatement: The Art of ‘Ground Zero’ (Part 4) Iwaki Yumoto II All photos ART iT (March 2012) I returned to Tokyo from Iwaki Yumoto and in the New Year, on Tuesday, January 24, 2012, I set foot for theView More >