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Love Love Show12/Dec/2009 - 14/Feb/2010AOMORI MUSEUM OF ARTSince the 2000s we have often seen words, such as “heterogeneity”, “hybrid” and “cross discipline”, included in titles of exhibitions and presently it is not unusual for us to enjoy looking at artworks of varying fields, including art, design, high culture or subculture...
Tabaimo: DANMEN11/Dec/2009 - 03/Mar/2010Yokohama Museum of ArtTabaimo’s creations have one point in common, whether they were made in the form of images or book illustrations, in that they are expressions of changing images and chains of altered images, and also they were always depicted using a motif of sociality.
THE LIBRARY + at this place24/Oct/2009 - 20/Dec/2009Shizuoka Art GalleryWhen I visit a large-scale exhibition traveling throughout the country, I cannot always help wondering if there is any inevitability that the exhibition should be held in the venue where I visit at that moment. Every year I can easily enjoy viewing a number of ...
SHINCHIKA28/Nov/2009 - 16/Jan/2010Ota Fine ArtsToday we can instantaneously access even to the other side of the world by only clicking a button displayed on the Internet. This may sometimes make us lose our bearings. Throughout a game screen we find there is a world created using CG (computer graphics).
Nobuaki Onishi: Chain19/Dec/2009 - 23/Jan/2010Gallery NomartSix hundred and seventy-two butterflies were pasted on the wall. The reason why I could accurately grasp the number of butterflies was of course not that I counted all of them piece by piece but that they were orderly arranged in twenty-one widthwise and ...
Rei Naito: Tout animal est dans le monde comme de l’ eau à l’ intérieur de l’ eau.14/Nov/2009 - 24/Jan/2010The Museum of Modern Art, KamakuraThe first exhibition room that is on the second floor of the venue is in dim light. The room is illuminated only with fairy lights displayed on a textile laid in a display case. Ribbons and buttons are scattered around the lights, ...
Junsuke Inatomi: Tsuki-yomu-hone19/Dec/2009 - 25/Dec/2009Gallery BuburindoPeering at the inside bottom of the pottery, I found there were stars. The black stars were randomly shining against the white background of the pottery just like the moon floating in the blue sky during the day.
Yoko Ono: “A HOLE”05/Dec/2009 - 25/Dec/2009Gallery 360°Glass plates are displayed not only on the wall but on the table at the center of the exhibition room. It is not difficult for us to imagine cracks found on all the plates were made using a gun because of the existence of a little “hole” in the center of each plate.
Sticky Sloppy Lumpy09/Dec/2009 - 24/Dec/2009TURNER GALLERYUsually, contents of exhibition - exhibits - are not changed significantly after the opening of the exhibition. In other words, artworks displayed at the beginning of exhibition period are basically shown until its closing day.
Makoto Azuma Exhibition at ARKHILLS: Bridge of Plants01/Dec/2009 - 05/May/2010ARK HILLS ARK KARAJAN PLACEIndeed, the title of the works, “Bridge of Plants” (2009), created by Makoto Azuma, and their concept of “working as bridges between cities and nature” would make you imagine in a relatively-easy way the figure of bridges created by using plants...
