Watanabe is a young painter plays with that human being's perception. Many colorful shapes are floating in his painting. One shape looks like a bird when another looks like an umbrella. He told us that what you will find depends on your own experience.
Artist talk titled "Artist studios today" by Kohei Nawa, Yusuke Komuta and Naoki Tomita was held at G-Tokyo. As we may imagine as a typical artist who works lonely in a studio, their styles are not like that. Nawa's studio works as a team to solve problems and respect each abilities to overcome any difficulties. Other two young painters have opened a new space last year and looking for their new way as a creation space.
At a first glance, it is hard to tell how Yuko Someya's work was created. It may look like a painting but actually a collage of papers cut out or torn. Her work stands out not only for its dynamic structure, but for its details such as hand written patterns and textures of paper. She talked about connections or relations which have been changed since internet came to our life.
Takuro Kuwata is a young artist who works in ceramics. He has developed his own style originally starting from traditional techniques. During the interview, he shared his ideas behind joyful colors, forms and materials which distinguish him from traditional ceramic art. His works are powerful and happy. He respects and enjoys the power of nature by bringing its characters directly into his work.
While interviewing Nagashima, one question repeatedly came up in my mind. "Do I really understand my own character?" She told me about her interest toward the subconscious part of human beings. Her work provides a place for viewers to think about who they are.
Tomoko Fukushi's works are drawn on a white board with a black parmanent marker. "Why drawing on a white board?" may be one of the questions the viewers ask themselves. This question is a good point to start a journey through the life of an artist who tried to find her own expression.
Makiko Kudo's painting recalls your memory and opens your inner sense. Kudo has a very sensitive perception to discern what she likes and what she cares from her surroundings. She depicts what she felt carefully but dynamically on a canvas. Through the interview, you will know how many of her memories are hidden in one painting. And that must be the reason why her paintings stimulate your inner sense.
Opened his own gallery in 1996, Tomio Koyama has been one of the most important gallerists, especially known as bringing Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara to the world wide audience. Through the interview, he told us the importance of doing what others are not and having your own way of thinking.
Girls with flowing hair, blossoming flowers in pink and purple, green and cream polka dot dresses, birds and lions inhabit Sakae Ozawa's paintings. The colorful, fantastic themes in her paintings overwhelm you and strike you as overly girly-girly at first. But getting to know the artist, you realize that her paintings are anything but saccharine fairytales.
Kyotaro Hakamata is an artist known for his colorful striped sculptures. His work stimulates our imagination. In this interview, he told us that his creation is based on the tolerance of uncertainty. Don't let your imagination limit your creativity.
Kyohei Sakaguchi is a young provocative artist proclaimed that he will be a president of a "new government" which he formed by himself. He explains it as a performance art based on his pure and fundamental questions such as "Why do human beings need money to live?" or "Why lands are owned by people?" You may have a practical answer but let's rethink through Sakaguchi's exhibition with blank slate of a mind.
Yoko Ono's exhibition "WATER SOURCE" held at Gallery 360 degrees in Tokyo. The first section features two walls with participatory works called "TIME TO TELL YOUR LOVE" and "MY MOMMY IS BEAUTIFUL". In the second section, sparkling prisms titled "LIGHT HOUSE" were floating in the dark, which is the second time to be installed since 1966, London.
Sekine only uses pencils -- and a stylus at times-- to create her work. What a simple medium! But her expression is broad and far from what I could have imagined as a work created by a pencil.
Miwa Yanagi, internationally renowned photographer and video artist, is currently directing the "Railroad Art Festival Vol.2 - Theater of Station" in Osaka. It is a unique annual art festival focusing on "railroad and its culture".
12 artists group exhibition under the theme of "abstract art" is now open at an old warehouse in Kyoto downtown. The exhibition is independently run by the artists themselves to raise a question to us of what the abstract art means today.
Mr. Mori is a tall, gentle-mannered gallerist with a discerning eye. He defines fine art as objects that appear between artists and physical objects or sceneries. The artists he represents are dynamic but some what humorous at the same time. We asked how him developed his perception towards art.
After viewing the details of her drawings up close, one shouldn't be surprised by Naoko Sekine's large hands and elegantly long fingers, despite her petite stature. Using only pencils--and a stylus at times--she fills up large canvases with both powerful fish scale-like imprints and soft puffs of graphite clouds.
Formerly a military barracks built and used by the colonial English, Gillman Barracks opened on September 14, 2012, after a $10-million refurbishment to convert the location into a cultural attraction. Gillman Barracks was jointly developed by several government agencies and is meant to strengthen Singapore's position in the international arts scene as an Asian arts hub.
we brought 4 new works by Hiroshi Fujii to Azito collectors. Looking at each birds carefully, you will notice that they are made of toys such as swords, propeller, caps and airplanes. These toys were given by kids and we would like to share the story behind it.
Enormous number of toys were brought to created this view. They don't look like toys anymore but like color palette. It was his solo show focusing on his long time project "Kaekko (= exchanging)" and how these toys could get together. When you continue anything for a quite long period, it will become an enormous power. He has proven that fact.
"The Echo - Although I am still alive" showed the work of 17 young Japanese artists from whom 10 are currently living in the capital of Germany and through them the variety of languages, styles and approaches contemporary Japanes Art has to offer.
Now in its third year, Osaka Canvas Project is the most up-and-coming outdoor art festival in Japan. Using a wide range of outdoor sites and several indoor spaces across Osaka prefecture, it aims to enhance the attractiveness of the region drawn by the artworks.
Sorry for the long absence of new works, but from now we will regularly upload new works! And this time, we are proud to introduce you two works by Yoko Ono, which represent her life.
We had the chance to talk to Sugaya, the owner of Gallery 360 Degrees, one of Tokyo's oldest contemporary art galleries, about their impressive artist lineup and life changing encounters with artists that they have seen through the past few decades.
This is a book about the new generation in Japanese contemporary art after Takashi Murakami, including many artwork images all in color. I interviewed her over skype asking why she started to work on this book and how things went during the process.
NANAZUKA is a gallery found in 2005, introducing artists with novel expression. Some are renown illustrator and fashion designer whom we might have missed to appreciate as an artist. Nanazuka introduces them to place them into the art history...
It's no wonder why the Serpentine Gallery was chosen for this exhibition. As you make your way off the busy, crowded metro and into the relaxing calm of Kensington Park you can already begin to feel your mind letting go of appointments, anxieties, deadlines, and other social pressures.
We have interviewed Yamamoto about the artists, Fukaya and Yanobe before. But this time, we asked her about how she started her gallery and what she cares for choosing artists to represent.
This time artist Tatsuo Miyajima joined efforts with hanbok- Korean traditional dress designer Kim Young-seok to open joint exhibition in an old Korean house situated in Gahoe-dong- historic district in Seoul ,full of traditional architecture...
On 11th March 2012, 6.2 meter (20.4 feet) tall FTP statue was unveiled in the central island of the rotary in front of Hankyu Minami Ibaraki station (Ibaraki city, Osaka). The day marked exact one year since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake
What's wonderful about this exhibit by one of Japan's most popular contemporary artists at a smaller venue like the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art is its intimacy...
We interviewed Mr. Ishibashi who organized this fair and runs a commercial gallery by himself about why he started the fair and how he sees the art industry in Japan...
Japanese controversial artist collective, Chim↑Pom called out socially rebellious artists and is now holding an exhibition. The artists are all challenging social problems that seem too complicated or unsolvable...
When you contemplate Japanese art, what do you see? The comical characters of Murakami and Nara? The dots of Kusama? Or the temples and sculptures in Kyoto? All of the above assumptions are true, but each is still insufficient to cover the full scope of the "Japanese art".
The Japan Cultural Institute in Paris celebrates the 15th year of activity in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower with a program entirely devoted to Japanese humor...
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art intends to give an overview of contemporary Japanese Artwork with a capacious exhibition dedicated solely to Japanese Art from the last 40 years...
Appreciating and experiencing works of art have become more and more accessible. Museums and galleries, that exhibit the works of artists from various nations in intervals...
Art Fair Tokyo which is the largest art fair in Japan, recorded over 53,000 visitors which was the highest number ever. 143 exhibitors were not only from Japan but from other Asian countries...
One of the biggest Japanese art festivals came back with Yayoi Kusama! Roppongi Art Night is an all-night art event whose stage is set in the entire Roppongi area, a famous Japanese town for both night owls and art lovers.
If you are interested in new talent, VOCA is one of the exhibition not to miss in Japan. It is organized by Japanese curators and critics, each of them push in one artist...
When I first saw Tanaka's "blocks" series artworks, it looked like a hallucination. Hallucination of colorful buildings appeared in a white desert. As you may have noticed,...
There is nothing better than a day spent on art-spotting on a gloomy Saturday morning. Emphasizing the fact that this day was the day of my initiation as a writer...
We were lucky to have an opportunity to listen to TOKYO FRONTLINE's organizer, Goto's thought about Japanese art fair and Japanese contemporary art world. TOKYO FRONTLINE's interesting and novel ideas seems to stem from his different origin from the art world.
TOKYO FRONTLINE is a new art fair which focuses on young Japanese artists with future potential. Started last year, second edition of this art fair tries aggressive promotion of artists by developing art goods, collaborating with companies or making a TV show which introducing young artists.
Nobuya Hoki has just finished his solo exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto. He is a Kyoto-based artist who is developing a unique and experimental approach to painting. The exhibition was showcasing a new body of work which represents the distinctive characteristics of his drawing style.
Reika Nakayama, the first prize winner of 2011 VOCA award whose aim is to discover new and emerging talent in the country, is now holding her solo exhibition "Sleeping diary - to paradise -" at Mori Yu Gallery in Kyoto.
The DOMANI exhibition has been held 13 times, and this year marks its 14th anniversary. This annual exhibition is functioning as an opportunity for those artists who study abroad on the Overseas Study Program for Artists to present their study results. This time, eight artists are featured, who recently went abroad on this program and have not yet exhibited their works at the DOMANI exhibition.
Posters of a hauntingly beautiful nihon-ga (Japanese-style painting) depicting a young girl who seems to be searching for something in a dense forest of wisteria while turning her back on an empty cradle appear all over the City of Yokohama and in trains on the Tokyu Toyoko line.
We Are Asia', roared the ad campaign for the second edition of Art Stage Singapore, and Japan was not short on representatives at the island nation's second attempt to establish itself as a vital destination in the Asian art scene.
Her largest-scale retrospective soon open at Tate Modern, the show was recently running at Centre Pompidou, Paris and is traveling to Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Kusama Yayoi's solo exhibition "Eternity of Eternal Eternity" has begun at the National Museum of Art, Osaka in Japan.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography was showing artworks by 5 emerging artists. Although they are all using photograph as a medium, their expressions were beyond our imagination and captured my eyes with excitement.
While Cool Japan and Takashi Murakami's Superflat series have led the charge the world over, blazing the trail for Japanese art on an international platform , another artist has been making inroads into the art scene with less fanfare.
2011 is the 100th anniversary of Taro Okamoto's birth, who gave Yanobe great influence on his life as an artist. In celebration of Okamoto's centenary, several exhibitions have been held this year. The last one is this "Kenji Yanobe: Sun Child, Child of Taro". Colliding with Okamoto's work, Yanobe presents a novel and exciting view before our eyes.
This picture was taken during the WWII in front of a shrine. The family originally lived in Hiroshima prefecture where the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945.
German-based Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi holds his debut exhibition in Kansai region. The show is a part of the art festival which is addressing the theme of "Railway and Travel" and featuring exhibitions, talk and performance events at multi-venues on Keihan railway line.
The National Museum of Art, Osaka is currently presenting an exhibition "Ways of Worldmaking" which showcases recent works by emerging nine artists and groups.
When I visited Tanaami's exhibition in the end of October, these vivid colors jumped into my eyes standing out from the bright white gallery space. I love Tanaami's strong coloration...
Celebrating his 100th anniversary of his birth, 14 Japanese contemporary artists joined the exhibition tilted "Taro Love". It is held at Seibu Department store in Shibuya, Tokyo.
"For me colour photography is about atmosphere, whereas with my black and white work I was focused on shape and tonality. In my black and white work by combining those elements of shape and tonality,
Tigers are making a circle and look like dancing. This is an artwork created by Hiroshi Fuji, combining each tiger brought from children through the project called "Kaekko (swap)".
We would like to introduce the exhibition "Transformation" held at Museum of contemporary art Tokyo. This exhibition included Japanese artists such as Masakatsu Takagi, Motohiko Odani, Naoki Ishikawa, Jyunya Oikawa and Sputniko!.
Takashi Murakami's solo exhibition at Versailles, Paris ended on Dec 12 2010 as it was scheduled. Collected the reviews, photos and reports regarding to this exhibition.
Kenji Yanobe's solo exhibition "Levitation", was held at Yamamoto Gendai Gallery. The selected pieces were from his entirely new series to operate on magnetic energy.
The exhibition was covering every artwork and installations done by Paramodel since 2001. They decorated the entire space with blue plastic rail track and created a new
Kosuke Tsumura designs fashion that is survival-themed, but also works as an artist. In straddling both genres, fashion and art, what exactly would be the uniquely Japanese style he showcases?
Nobody's Fool is the first major New York exhibition of the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara, and features more than one hundred works ranging from his early career to his most recent paintings, drawings, sculptures, ceramics, and large-scale installations.
[through Sep 23] This exhibition place used to be an electric power plant. Yanobe will transform this abandoned building into the "future" place by creating a story and put it as an installation...
[through Aug 1] Takashi Homma has photographed the waves of North Shore in Hawaii since 2000. His new series of "New Waves" taken in 2010, is now exhibited at 1223 gallery in Tokyo....
[through June 8] This exhibition features Kumano, an early video work by internationally renowned Japanese artist Mariko Mori (born 1967, Japan), and a recent ...
As an artist who utilises a unique combination of delicately drawn lines and celluloid picture-like expressions to vividly portray the lives of young female prostitutes, her works
This series of watercolor paintings, however, takes a somewhat different direction from Ikezoe's past works. While most of his previous works were paintings resembling prints on
Beside the 15 Japanese galleries joining the ART HK10, There were many Japanese artists shown by the non-Japanese galleries too. Here are some photo's of their artworks.
Among the 151 galleries participating from 29 different countries, there are 15 Japanese galleries showing in the fair. Here are some photo's of these boothes.
[through May 19] "A towering influence on the evolution and iconography of Japanese contemporary art, Yokoo has straddled the worlds of commercial and fine art since...
By its very nature, collage is a medium which evokes the many possibilities of texture, purpose, and presence. Composed from photographs and original artworks, Kosuke Tsumura's distinctive series, ...
Like a child's imagination coming true, Tamanoi's debut photo series explores what happens when two of his favorite things - candy and horror movies - become one and
One of the most respected young photographers in Japan at the moment, Takashi Homma is extremely honest about his subjects. Highly influenced by the color
A dynamic duo, Keiichi Tanaami and Soji Yamakawa create prints/paintings that appear to pulsate with an electric energy not unlike like that of a neon urbanscape.
Drawn with the intimacy of a needle and the intense concentration of the naked eye, Etsuko Fukaya's etchings appear to challenge the the very possibilities of boundaries and scale.
[through Mar 13] "From Kojiki to Modern Heroism" is a two-person exhibition of new paintings by the New York-based Japanese artists Tat Ito and Hiro Kurata.
[through Mar 13] Daido Moriyama is one of Japan's leading figures in photography. Witness to the spectacular changes that transformed postwar Japan, his photographs
Paramodel is an artist unit formed in 2001 by Yasuhiko Hayashi and Yusuke Nakano. Their title is essentially a manifesto in sum - fusing the words "Paradise", "Paradox", and "Model"...
[through Feb 12] Sunairi has been collecting seeds from hibaku trees in Hiroshima and has distributed them to nearly 400 Tree Project participants in 23 countries.
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Watanabe is a young painter plays with that human being's perception. Many colorful shapes are floating in his painting. One shape looks like a bird when another looks like an umbrella. He told us that what you will find depends on your own experience.
Artist talk titled "Artist studios today" by Kohei Nawa, Yusuke Komuta and Naoki Tomita was held at G-Tokyo. As we may imagine as a typical artist who works lonely in a studio, their styles are not like that. Nawa's studio works as a team to solve problems and respect each abilities to overcome any difficulties. Other two young painters have opened a new space last year and looking for their new way as a creation space.
At a first glance, it is hard to tell how Yuko Someya's work was created. It may look like a painting but actually a collage of papers cut out or torn. Her work stands out not only for its dynamic structure, but for its details such as hand written patterns and textures of paper. She talked about connections or relations which have been changed since internet came to our life.
Takuro Kuwata is a young artist who works in ceramics. He has developed his own style originally starting from traditional techniques. During the interview, he shared his ideas behind joyful colors, forms and materials which distinguish him from traditional ceramic art. His works are powerful and happy. He respects and enjoys the power of nature by bringing its characters directly into his work.
While interviewing Nagashima, one question repeatedly came up in my mind. "Do I really understand my own character?" She told me about her interest toward the subconscious part of human beings. Her work provides a place for viewers to think about who they are.
Tomoko Fukushi's works are drawn on a white board with a black parmanent marker. "Why drawing on a white board?" may be one of the questions the viewers ask themselves. This question is a good point to start a journey through the life of an artist who tried to find her own expression.
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