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Johnnie Walker of A.R.T. curated the inaugural exhibition at the newly opened Weekend Museum based at the United Nations University in Omotesando. The first artist to be presented was Takanobu Kobayashi whose monosyllabic canvases served a as backdrop for the opening of Tokyo’s newest museum of contemporary art.
Johnnie Walker with Julia Friedman.
Here are some images of the Butoh dancer who preformed at the opening:
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Last Thursday, November 25th, marked the 40th anniversary of Mishima’s suicide. Unfortunately, I could not be at the event (I just returned from LA and had to be in the lecture on the day), but Jeffrey Chiedo of Motus Fort kindly shared the pictures he took. I am posting a selection below.
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on November 26, 2010, 6:04 PM,
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Motohiko Odani.
The preview crowd.
The artist and the exhibition curator, Natsumi Araki, presenting the show.
Images courtesy of the gallery.
In his new exhibition at the
Kodama gallery Nakayama works with early Modernist landscapes and still lifes (think Cézanne), presented and framed as they would be at the turn of the twentieth century, adding geometric fragments of brightly-colored tape. The effect is very interesting, not in the least because it recalls Suprematist geometry. This overlapping of tape shapes and the painted fragments seems like a tongue-in-cheek art-historical commentary more than anything else. Very interesting works, I only wish the artist had skipped the glazing—it is certainly not a part of old-fashioned framing and it interferes with looking at the objects.
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