The pleasure of 1 + 1 > 2 Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi From comical yet somehow subversive works boldly combining familiar manufactured goods such as PET bottles and action figures, to a magical series wildly joining wood inView More >
Echoes between West and East Text: Yanashita Tomoko In a meadow surrounded by the Alps, a lone female plays the cello as if engaging in a dialogue with her own echo. The sound rings out beautifully. But equally memorable areView More >
Disarmingly pragmatic about the Indian art boom Text: Chaitanya Sambrani Portrait: Nawa Makiko Widely hailed as the most prominent Indian artist of his generation on the international circuit, Subodh Gupta is a representative of the new Indian artist: ambitious, worldly-wise,View More >
A world of ‘quiet mystery’ Text: Uchida Shinichi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi If there were such an activity as creating quietness, then Michaël Borremans’ paintings could well serve as a model. The figures in his paintings, which are depicted with aView More >
On This is Me, This is You Text: Matsuura Naomi This is Me, This is You consists of portraits of a young girl shot over a period of about two years. The photos were taken two at a time usingView More >
Exhibiting the ‘now’ Text: Iida Shihoko Portrait: Nagare Satoshi On a wet spring night at the scene of his solo show, Wolfgang Tillmans stood surrounded by starstruck admirers. Flashing the same charming smile as his previous trip to Japan fourView More >
The balance between ethics and aesthetics Text: Matsuura Naomi Confronted by the deluge of images in the modern world, New York-based Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar remains steadfastly skeptical of their use as spectacle. Taking images that offer a fragment, aView More >
Creative endeavor as game spectator Text: Yanashita Tomoko Portrait: Inoue Yoshikazu Tao Soju presents his work as head of OkamePro, an imaginary entertainment production company, and as one of the company’s stable of artists. The company has its origins inView More >
‘Once in a lifetime’ art marking time and memories Text: Ozaki Tetsuya Portrait: Ishikawa Natsuko Many of Miyanaga’s works, pale and ephemeral, vanish over the space of a few weeks. Take for example her objects made from napthalene. The semitransparentView More >
A drop of humor for parched minds Text: Kojima Yayoi Portrait: Nagare Satoshi “I call these my instant diamonds. I collect plastic packages with nothing written on them. They’re no longer of any use, but when light shines on them,View More >