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japanese contemporary art: October 2014
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Friday, October 3, 2014. Exhibition: making home in Brooklyn. Nobutaka Aozaki works are likewise ephemeral. Aozaki has created a portrait station inspired by caricaturists in Times Square. Except Aozaki has replaced drawing paper with plastic smiley face bags—onto which the artist Sharpies hair, glasses, etc. The result: a bunch of photos of visitors holding up their bags vaguely in their likeness and smiling. The exhibition runs through January 4th 2015. Exhibition: m...
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japanese contemporary art: September 2013
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Saturday, September 21, 2013. Exhibition: out of doubt. 2010, wire, cement. Installation view: Gallery 604, Busan; photo: Sato Tsuyoshi. 2010, wood, canvas, acrylic paint, silkscreen, mirrored aluminum, wood, paper, plexiglas, MDF, spray enamel, video monitor, formica, glass, lights; photo: Jason Mandella, Courtesy: Sculpture Center, New York. Artforum Sep 2013 issue). Thursday, September 12, 2013. Eikoh Hosoe, Man and Woman #24, 1960. Is inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata, ...
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japanese contemporary art: exhibition: Taro Award
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Sunday, February 23, 2014. Taro Okamoto was an artist leading his era, always challenging towards something new. In 1954, Okamoto published a book called Today’s Art. Subtitled Who will Make History. The Okamoto Taro Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, commonly referred to as the Taro Award. Was established shortly after he passed away. It is one of Japan's most coveted art recognitions and the only one these days that actively encourages radical experimentation.
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japanese contemporary art: June 2013
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Monday, June 17, 2013. Exhibition: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico. Earlier this month I visited Massimiliano Gioni's much anticipated The Encyclopedic Palace. The other Japanese artist in the show is not so unknown and since his works have been sown at last dOCUMENTA (13). One of the most prominent and persistent facets of Ohtake's practice is his series Scrapbooks. Which, since its inception in 1977, has grown into a collection of over 60 individual books, some over seven h...
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japanese contemporary art: into the fog
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Friday, May 30, 2014. Since 1970, Fujiko Nakaya has created numerous site-specific fog installations in cities as far-flung as Sydney, Paris, New York, Bilbao, Shanghai, Toronto, Riga and Japan. She collaborated with choreographers (Trisha Brown), musicians ( David Tudor), other artists (Bill Viola, Robert Wilson, Hiroshi Teshigawara) and architects (Diller Scofidio, Arata Isozaki) to lend her fog to sound, music and dance. Philip Johnson's Glass House, Veil, 2014.
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japanese contemporary art: exhibition: spelndid playground
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Much heralded opening of the Gutai exhibition: Splendid Playground. In Guggenheim preceded by Lee Ufan. Show and Mono-ha exhibition at the Gladstone Gallery, as well as ongoing show in MoMA: T. Okyo 1955-1970. A New Avant Garde. Marks the recent fervor on Japanese postwar art. Polyethylene, water, dye, and rope, dimensions variable. Installation view: Outdoor Gutai Art Exhibition. Ashiya Park, Ashiya, July 27-August 5, 1956. The Gutai group...
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japanese contemporary art: October 2013
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Sunday, October 13, 2013. In their place are meditative, abstract sculptures and installations, strongly influenced by Buddhism, theoretical physics, and prehistoric cultures (and also, it often seems, by other contemporary artists like Hiroshi Sugimoto and James Turrell). They make up an ambitious but disappointing show, which summons big ideas and primal energies only to give them trite, New Agey forms. Continue reading. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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japanese contemporary art: art in action: Eiko&Koma
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Sunday, January 19, 2014. Art in action: Eiko&Koma. 38 Works (1976 - 2011). From Eiko and Koma. Ive recently made this video that features a Japanese traditional art in a unique way. I hope you find it interesting. June 4, 2014 at 8:27 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Write 'n remix short texts about Japanese post-war and contemporary art. View my complete profile. Art in action: Eiko&Koma. Contemporary Art History: Japan. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art.
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japanese contemporary art: July 2013
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Guide to japanese contemporary art. Thursday, July 11, 2013. Art in action: sincere cappuccino. The works I like most is always the art I don't understand, those that stick in mind but eludes in every other way. This is very true of Aki Sasamoto. Whose studio I visited recently. The gallery walls were transformed into a climbing-wall-cum-whiteboard, creating a backdrop for several performances. Sunday, July 7, 2013. Famous supermodel and idol Lilico holds a dark secret that soon is to come out, her seemi...
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