published: Apr 23,2009

09/APR/2009-26/APR/2009
SPIRAL
Ink and pencils – these materials bring us an image that is black in color. Clearly
however
it cannot be said that black is ""a single color""
as the colors of ink differ between manufacturing areas or eras and the blackness of pencils varies with their hardness or make.

published: Apr 21,2009

03/APR/2009-09/APR/2009
ELMO LEWIS Gallery
""TOTAL"" is a kind of project exhibition
which is also organized as a presentation party of Elmo Lewis Inc
a company which has started to import and sell planters made by VesseL USA Inc. Works created by Makoto Azuma using planters and paintings by Kensuke Sasaki are displayed together in this exhibition space

published: Apr 3,2009

24/JAN/2009-28/FEB/2009
Kodama Gallery | Kyoto
Under the knees
there is a space that forces us to kneel down and get on all fours in order to go forward...The action of getting down on all fours reminds us of crawling along into a secret base in the woods
made when we were children.

published: Mar 31,2009

14/MAR/2009-10/MAY/2009
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
I feel that this exhibition only serves as a group show that features a set of rising artists who have been featured in various magazines
such as ""Bijutsu-techo""
which does not exactly match the exhibition theme of ""alien world"" . Why?

published: Mar 27,2009

04/MAR/2009-06/MAY/2009
The National Art Center
Tokyo
Artist File 2009 has no unified theme
which is said to be its main characteristic; however
my impression is loose
the same or looser than the last exhibition. But why were these particular nine artists selected when such criteria could be met by anyone?

published: Mar 26,2009

07/MAR/2009-10/MAY/2009
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
We share much time with our mothers and fathers
and this provides us with many memories and experiences. However
we share little or no time with our ""grandmothers"" until they approach the end of their lives. The time they have lived is much longer than us due to the length of time between our respective births.

published: Mar 26,2009

18/MAR/2009-24/MAY/2009
Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM
This is a comprehensive exhibition of Azuma’s private gallery activities of twenty-four exhibitions up to the present exhibition of artworks using plants. The gallery was operated by Azuma himself for two years from April 2007 to March 2009 in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa.

published: Mar 16,2009

17/FEB/2009-01/MAR/2009
neutron kyoto
Ofune is an outstanding artist with spatial composition capability. Without the black frame a size larger than the artwork
the space would have been extremely monotonous. Every time an artwork was found it expanded the existing space.

published: Mar 12,2009

09/MAR/2009-14/MAR/2009
Gallery Q
Three months have passed since his last solo-exhibition. Although the interval has been short
we see progress that four out of the six artworks constitute a pair of paintings composed of a duo of a masked and an unmasked woman.

published: Mar 2,2009

15/JAN/2009-22/FEB/2009
The Sato Museum of Art
""Natsunosuke Mise Exhibition: Summer in Winter"" held at The Sato Museum of Art. There was exhibited the ""Staring at Gap"" series
""J"" and even his atelier. We unconsciously kept the images produced by Mise in our heart while walking in front of ""Strange Scenery""
which is over 30m in length.

published: Feb 24,2009

10/JAN/2009-14/FEB/2009
Roentgenwerke AG
The original Japanese title of ""The unrestricted field of view"" is Juppo-shiya. Juppo means every direction including up-and-down. This word well describes the atmosphere of his pictures.

published: Feb 10,2009

02/SEP/2008-21/OCT/2008
Setagaya Art Museum
Study of ""passage"" by comparing the ""exhibition of Dani Karavan"" (2008) to Wilkinson Eyre Architects’s ""Bridge of Aspiration"" and ""Tadashi Kawamata Walkway"" (2008).

published: Jan 22,2009

03/NOV/2009-21/DEC/2009
Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
Review to the museum exhibition entitled ""Lu Lu Lu Landscape - How I see the world around me -"". What is ""to see scenery"" in this condition? Does my arbitrary look-around from a marathon telecast also count as ""seeing scenery""? An exhibition under the theme of seeing scenery was held outside Tokyo.

published: Jan 4,2009

13/DEC/2008-27/DEC/2008
IMURA ART GALLERY
Mise’s one of the most tipical motiefs
entitled ""J"" - the details have not always been clear since then
but a crown on the head
a body in armor
and a sword on the left side are obvious from the silhouette. This article discusses how he treats this motief this time.

published: Jan 3,2009

15/DEC/2008-20/DEC/2008
GALLERY b.TOKYO
Chida's motief in his painting often has faces not drawn as a visible face or cruelly deformed. What do the people wearing a ""mask"" like face implicate?

published: Dec 10,2008

07/NOV/2008-29/NOV/2008
CASHI
Review to Keita Sagaki's solo exhibition
who is a 24 year-old rookie artist
who has started to be recognized all over Japan through the Shell Art Awards Exhibition 2007 and the 11th Liquitex Biennale.

published: Nov 27,2008

13/SEP/2008-24/NOV/2008
The Museum of Modern Art
Kamakura
If we have any difficulties discussing Keizaburo Okamura (born in 1958)
the only reason should be the overwhelming quantity of his artworks...review to his recent solo-exhibition.

published: Nov 16,2008

28/OCT/2008-09/NOV/2008
neutron kyoto
Review to the solo-exhibition of Ai Chuda (born in 1980) in 2008
""Others inside of me""
held at Gallery Neutron
Kyoto.

published: Nov 15,2008

27/OCT/2008-08/NOV/2008
SHINOBAZU GALLERY
Review to her recent solo exhibition
discussing her changes from ""katari-jima"" to ""sun people"" by vivid yellow and soft form.

published: Nov 14,2008

11/OCT/2008-01/NOV/2008
art & river bank
""window - scape"" (2008) by Susumu Harada is a photo work. He ""look pictures"" of this other scenery
images on TV/computers. Images are so defocused that we cannot specify the place or people but only the light blinking.

published: Nov 11,2008

24/MAY/2008-13/JUL/2008
Suntory Museum of Art
Exhibition review for considering the historical background and a view on woman at that time in Edo period by reading the metaphor meaning of Kosode designs.