Yuichi Sugai installation view. Image courtesy of the gallery.
Art Statements Tokyo went ahead with the planned (then postponed) opening of Yuichi Sugai’s show. For more information visit the gallery website. The show will stay on through April 16th.
Nakaji Yasui, (Gaze), 1931, Gelatin silver print
Nakaji Yasui at Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto
March 25 – May 7, 2011
Opening reception: Friday, March 25, 18:00 – 20:00
Nakaji Yasui was active between the 1920s until the early 1940s, and worked primarily in West Japan; he is known as one of the leading figures in Japanese photographic history. During the early period when Japanese photography began to follow global tendencies, Nakaji Yasui enthusiastically engaged with new art theories, considering at an extremely in-depth level how these theories could be relevantly expanded into Japan at the time. Exerting a significant impact on notable contemporary photographers such as Daido Moriyama, Yasui’s extent work provides an important viewpoint in considering the wider spheres of not only photography, but modern artistic practices. In comparison to his contemporaries, he did not produce many works in his lifetime, and only a limited number of prints exist today. However, with the portfolio—in addition to his representative work, Displaced Jews and the Yamane Circus series—we have included thirty modern prints that narrate the photographer’s wide experimentation. This exhibition seeks to reveal a full, vivid portrait of Nakaji Yasui and the essence of his honed art. Also, with the assistance of Nakao Yasui, we will be specially exhibiting an original copy of the collotype printedNakaji Yasui Complete Works (1942), published immediately after his death.
This exhibition features 30 works included in Nakaji Yasui Portfolio, published by Taka Ishii Gallery in Autumn 2010.
Nakaji Yasui Portfolio
Publication: Taka Ishii Gallery
Editorial Supervision: Yuri Mitsuda (Curator at The Shoto Museum of Art)
Cooperation: Nakao Yasui and Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Print Production: Kazuyoshi Hidai (GINYUDO)
Number of Works: Total of 30 pieces
Print size: 432 x 356 mm
Publication Edition of 15
Essays, commentary and biography are included
Retail price: ¥ 1,500,000- (excl. tax)
Dear Press,
First of all, we would like to extend our sincere condolences and prayers to all those who may be suffering due to the effects of the Great Tohoku-Kanto Earthquake.
ART FAIR TOKYO informs that we have decided to postpone ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 that was originally scheduled from April 1 through April 3 (Preview: March 31).
Although we announced on March 14 that we would go ahead with the fair, the situation in Japan has still remained unsettled for the last few days.
On March 22, Tokyo International Forum was specified by The Tokyo Metropolitan Government to open their space as a shelter for evacuees affected by the earthquake,
and ART FAIR TOKYO Committee sees its situation difficult for the fair to be held at the Tokyo International Forum. As for that, ART FAIR TOKYO 2011 will be postponed.
More details on the postponed holding will be announced as decided.
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Mori Art Museum would like to announce the dates of the exhibitions “French Window” and “MAM Project 014” have been changed. Both will now commence from Saturday, 26 March.
As a mission, we believe that the museum should be a place that encourages many as to enrich their lives spiritually, thereby decided to open the exhibitions. Some of the artworks comprising the “French Window” exhibition will not be shown at the beginning of the exhibition period, however, we are planning on adding more works, depending upon some circumstances. The full dates for the exhibitions are as follows. “French Window”/”MAM Project 014”
Taka Ishii Gallery offers our prayers to all those who lost their lives in the March 11 Tohoku Earthquake and its ensuing aftermath, as well as our sympathy to the survivors and their families.
The solo exhibition of Marijke van Warmerdam scheduled from Mar. 30 at Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi, Tokyo) has been postponed. The gallery will present a memorial exhibition “NOART” from Wednesday, Mar. 30 through April 28 in consideration of those who lost their lives as a consequence of the earthquake.
Taka Ishii Gallery (Kiyosumi, Tokyo) and Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (Roppongi, Tokyo) will be closed through Monday, Mar. 21. Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto will remain open for regular business hours.
Taka Ishii Gallery
The great modernist eccentric Alexei Remizov was a “writers’ writer” whose innovative poetic prose has long since entered the Russian literary canon. Gradually expanding his working methods to make drawing an integral part of the writing process, during the 1930s and 1940s, Remizov created hundreds of albums that combined texts with collages and india ink and watercolor illustrations. (more) Northwestern University Press 7 x 10, 300 pgs, Trade Cloth ISBN 0-8101-2617-6 / $69.95
Skira Editore Milano just published a monograph on British-Iranian artist Reza Aramesh. In addition to several texts, and an interview with the artist, ACTION: BY NUMBER contains a catalogue raisonné of his work from 2002 onwards, including Aramesh’s recent marble sculpture. I discuss the art-historical genesis and cultural meaning of these spectacular and frightening works in my essay “The Meta of Marble.” (pp.124–129). SKIRA Editore Milano Hardcover. 248 pages, 153 ill., size 24x28cm ISBN 978-88-572-5285-8
Between June 2014 and April 2015, Dave Hickey posted almost 3,000 digital comments on social media, prompting nearly 700,000 words in response from art lovers, acolytes, and skeptics. Wasted Words is an unedited comprehensive transcript of these exchanges. This polyphonic digital discourse reveals the range of Hickey’s strong opinions, as he embarks on a crypto-enlightenment project for the benefit of "dunces" and "pricks." Paperback, 586 pages, 2016 ISBN-10: 1517287103
Dustbunnies is an assemblage of “swept up” fragments that came from a vast digital discourse that took place in Dave Hickey’s social media space between June 2014 and March 2015. During that time Hickey posted almost 3,000 comments, prompting nearly 700,000 words in response from art lovers, acolytes and skeptics. Wasted Words, the resulting volume, is an unedited comprehensive transcript of these exchanges. Its pendant publication, Dustbunnies, distills Hickey’s richly aphoristic comments, extracted from various discussion threads. Paperback, 124 pages, 2016 ISBN-10: 152327266X
Over the past seven years Wayne Thiebaud has made dozens of paintings, drawings, and etchings of clowns. Like much of his work, this latest series is in a sense autobiographical. During his boyhood in Long Beach he looked forward to the visits of a traveling Ringling Brothers circus and sometimes helped out behind the scenes in exchange for tickets. The costumes, faces, and antics of the clowns were the beginning of a lifelong fascination for him. The clown series is its culmination, in which the now 100-year-old artist revisits those early memories. In December 2019 Wayne Thiebaud unveiled a selection from his clown series at the San Francisco gallery founded by his son, Paul Thiebaud. The Laguna Art Museum exhibition will be a version of the Paul Thiebaud Gallery exhibition, featuring more than forty works. Fully illustrated with 56 artwork reproductions. Essay by Dr. Julia Friedman. Interview with the artist by Janet Bishop, the Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Hardcover: 100 pages; ISBN-10: 0578798573ISBN-13: 978-0578798578
Celebrating the 100th birthday of one of America's most respected and beloved artists, Wayne Thiebaud 100: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings honors a lifetime of extraordinary achievements across many genres. Best known for his tantalizing paintings of desserts, Thiebaud has long been affiliated with Pop Art, though his body of work is far more expansive, continuing to grow as the artist approaches his milestone birthday. Across the decades, Thiebaud has explored various details of American life through his art from urban views and rural landscapes to clowns and household items all the time continuing to explore the food subjects that made him famous. Wayne Thiebaud 100 accompanies an exhibition of the same name, organized by the Crocker Art Museum. In addition to the 100 paintings, prints, and drawings featured in the exhibition, this publication includes numerous other contextual paintings by Thiebaud, art by the masters who inspired him, and photographs of the artist with family and friends, taken over the course of his extraordinary career. Hardcover : 212 pages ISBN-10 : 1087501172 Dimensions : 9.8 x 0.9 x 11.3 inches ISBN-13 : 978-1087501178
Consuming Russia: Popular Culture, Sex, and Society since Gorbachev Adele Marie Barker (Editor), Eliot Borenstein (Contributor), Julia Friedman (Contributor), Adam Weiner (Contributor), Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky (Contributor), Robert Edelman (Contributor) With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and monolithic state-run marketplace into a virtual maze of specialty shops—from sushi bars to discotheques and tattoo parlors... (more) Paperback: 488 pages Publisher: Duke University Press Books (June 10, 1999) Language: English ISBN-10: 0822323133 ISBN-13: 978-0822323136
“A Powerless Seeker: Merezhkovsky’s Romance as Life-Writing” by Julia Friedman In Symbolism, its Origins and Consequences. Edited by Rosina Neginsky. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2010 Hardcover: 665 pages Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing New edition edition (October 1, 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1443823929 ISBN-13: 978-1443823920
“The Writing-Drawing Continuum of Alexei Remizov,” by Julia Friedman "Elective affinities" - a notion originally borrowed by Goethe for his 1809 novel of the same title from eighteenth-century chemistry - here refers to the active role of the two partners in the relationship of the pictorial and the verbal... In In Elective Affinities: Word & Image Interactions 6, 2008 Edited by Catriona McLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi Paperback: 422 pages Publisher: Rodopi (June 20, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 9042026189 ISBN-13: 978-9042026186
“Alexei Remizov’s Creative Act,” by Julia Friedman. Edited by Maurice Geracht and Frédéric Ogée. In Interfaces: Image Text Language, vol. 29, 2010
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