"Repeating ceaselessly, in the dark, dark night. Decisions were made only and solely to ensure our survival. This was long, long ago in a time much, much before time, when I did not rely on landscapes to distinguish myself from the stones, birds, animals, and rivers."

'imshow: Hak-hyun Kim, Osamu Sakuma (Rondade)', curated by Kakeru Okada at kanzan gallery, Higashi Kanda

“These are paintings about human attention, who or what we pay it to and who pays it to us. They’re observations of the quality of that attention and the grappling with attention’s attendant power and inequality.  I’ve been considering the relationship between the ‘in here’ and ‘out there’, as straining vocal sounds bleed through concrete,

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'imshow: Yusuke Endou, Shingo Kanagawa, Osamu Kanemura', curated by Kakeru Okada at kanzan gallery, Higashi Kanda

Lavender Opener Chair is an artist run space in Nishi-Ogu, Arakawa-ku run by artist/curator Yohei Watanabe 渡邉 庸平, alongside Yoko & Tatsuhiko Togashi 冨樫 of Tohmei Diner 灯明

Yohei Kobayashi at mumei, Kiyosumi-shirakawa

For the uninitiated, artist Noriyuki Haraguchi (b.1946) is pre-eminent; a leading figure from the Mono-ha movement who, although in his mid-70s, continues to make work with the ferocity of his 20 year-old self. As a sculptor, painter and installation artist, his works are alternative talismans for a televisual age — something interstitial, existing between the

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The “striking difference” here is perhaps the reddest herring: Are all these different people actually the same person? Who cares. The show has a very big heart. Contrastissimo Rasa_EL_FabulaMark HandJean-Gwénolé FleuriotElke LenteLa Flûte EnchantéeJoseph Beuys From The GraveJordi Villafranca July 19 – August 16, 2020 http://www.4-6-4-9.jp/contrastissimo-%40-4.6.4.9.html

Architect Ryoji Suzuki extracted the realm of architectural film and suspenseful material mainly from commercial cinema at the same time incorporating experimental films such as La Région Centrale (1971/Canada/Michael Snow) and Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976/France/Marguerite Duras), which in themselves are architectural films that exist only in the realm of a material suspense.

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During the 1960s the painter and installation artist Kōji Enokura, a key figure within the Mono-ha movement, had made a series of abstract watercolours prior to his first solo exhibition in 1969 at Tokyo’s Tsubaki Kindai Gallery. A selection of these paintings are now on display at Space 23˚C in Todoroki. Each painting focuses on an undefinable

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