Closing Party for WAKUWAKU SHIBUYA
If you have not seen the WAKUWAKU SHIBUYA at the Tokyo Wonder Site yet this is your last chance. The TWS is holding their closing event on Sunday, February 13. Click here for more details.
Clear Your Calendars: TOKYO FRONTLINE at 3331 Arts Chiyoda
TOKYO FRONTLINE is the new contemporary art and photography fair scheduled to open in the 3331 Arts Chiyoda on February 17th and run throughout the weekend.
According to the press release the new artfair will consists of three sections.
1. THE FRONTLINE will be showcasing young artists both represented by galleries (Tomoko Atsuchi of TARO NASU, Ken Kagami of Taka Ishii, Yusuke Komuta of SCAI THE BATHHOUSE, Tomoko Nagai of Tomio Koyama) and independent (Teng-Yuan Chang, Soichiro Murata, Hiraku Suzuki, Soshiro Matsubara). This part is curated and will be accompanied by an iPad year book app.
2. THE EXCHANGE is a networking space meant to bring together galleries, publishers, art collectives, art foundations, etc.
3. GYM is a sales section, the actual art fair portion of the event, where galleries that range from the young to the more established houses will present and sell their wares. Most participants are from Tokyo, with a sprinkling of galleries from Kyoto, Osaka. The international contingent is represented by Gallery Jinsun and Gallery Godo from Seoul and AFA Macao (Macao, China).
For more information please go to the event website.
Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo – Vernissage
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LG Williams “Salaryman/Superman” at Tana Gallery Bookshelf
LG Williams, Salaryman/Superman, 2011, installation view
Tana’s director Tamura
Williams’s Kyoto Gallery dealer Baron Osuna of Super Window Project (right) and Williams’s Tokyo Gallery dealer Tamura (left)
Still independent curator Shai Ohayon and Beatriz Inglessis
The SHIBUHOUSE gang from left to right: Nakajima-san (aka DOPE MAN), Toshikuni-san and TAIKI-SAN (the 3rd house leader)
Tana’s latest show was a comic-heroic production by a visiting Ozark Mountain American artist LG Williams (born 1969) who utilized every centimeter of the gallery space. The big crowd gathered for the inauguration party could witness the shelf brimming with salaryman’s clothes shed as he took off to save the world.
The exhibition catalogue can be found here.
AES + F “THE FEAST OF TRIMALCHIO”
Image courtesy of AES + F
A Russian collective AES + F has finally made it to Tokyo. Their first show is being hosted by the Hong-Kong based Art Statements gallery. The group of four artists (Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Sviatsky and Vladimir Fridkes) have been in business since 1987, surviving the now-booming, now-dead Russian art market. The current show is centered around their 2009 video installation The Feast of Trimalchio, with a selection of large and small scale digital prints displayed throughout the two floors of the gallery.
On view through March 15th. The gallery’s website has been down for sometime now, their physical address is 3-2-12 Ebisuminami, Shibuya-ku.
Take Ninagawa Opening
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Sachiko Muraoka at Ai Kawada gallery
“sleep on the ground,” oil on cotton, 1620 x 1303mm, 2010
One of the latest additions to the Kyosumi-Shirakawa art complex Ai Kawada Gallery is showing the new works by a young painter Sachiko Muraoka. The exhibition, entitled “weather report” brings together five paintings where flickers of color paint against dark, velvety background (she uses cotton as support), are meant to reproduce memories and sensations. Unfortunately, the reproductions do not do justice to these subtle works, I suggest you see these for yourselves. The show will be open through February 26th.
