
Exhibitions by Japanese artist showing around the world.
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- Kyohei Sakaguchi “Practice for a revolution” at Watarium museum
- Feb. 03, 2013
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- 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.
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- Yoko Ono “WATER SOURCE”at Gallery 360 degrees, revived the prism light house.
- Jan. 23, 2013
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- 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.
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- "Her name is Abstra" at Daido warehouse, Kyoto
- Dec. 14, 2012
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- 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.
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- Japanese galleries opened branches at Gillman Barracks, Singapore
- Nov. 30, 2012
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- 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.
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- Hiroshi Fuji “Where have all these toys come from?” at 3331 Arts Chiyoda
- Oct. 30, 2012
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- 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.
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- Yoko Ono's TO THE LIGHT at the Serpentine Gallery in London
- Sep. 16, 2012
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- 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.
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- "Shuffle II" at Art Fair Tokyo
- Apr. 24, 2012
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- 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".
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- Photo report: Art Fair Tokyo
- Apr. 06, 2012
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- 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...
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- Nobuya Hoki at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto
- Mar. 01, 2012
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- 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.
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- "DOMANI, The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition" at The National Art Center, Tokyo
- Feb. 16, 2012
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- 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.
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- "Kenji Yanobe : Sun Child, Taro's Children" at Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
- Jan. 14, 2012
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- 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.
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- "Nobody's fool" by Yoshitomo Nara
- Sep. 10, 2010
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- 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.
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- "Umep" by Kayo Ume
- Aug. 30, 2010
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- Kayo Ume is a photographer born in 1981, who captures the funny sceneries we must have seen in our everyday life.
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