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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I recently found my photographs of Georges Adéagbo’s London show from 1995. Strange detail jumps out as I look at these again: an interview with writer Kenzaburo Oe being one (we share a birthday; exactly twice my age), and political scientist Suzanne Berger on “Anti-statism” being the other. “This exhibition brought together six contemporary artists,

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“It’s midnight, there’s no one here. The machines break down and start talking to each other.” Eduardo Paolozzi I’ve always appreciated the idea of “slow preparation, fast execution,” but I think this little project may have taken the idea a little too literally. Some of the music in the album ‘NEW CLEAR VISION’ by SITHA

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Koji Nakano, Exhibition中野浩二「彫刻展」XYZ CollectiveMarch 01 – March 23, 2019 http://xyzcollective.org/current.html

西川ひろみ Nishikawa Hiromi 藝術新著　1974年10月号　通巻298号　『増大特集：日本の肖像画」Geijutsu Shincho, No.289, October 1974 (Japanese Portraits) Born in Tokyo 1973, Graduated, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts“New Artist Award”, Kokugakai (National Painting Association) 1974, “Pūruvū Award”, Kokugakai 1975, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts (certification)1976, Aichi Prefectural University of Arts, Graduate studies1980, Enrolls at Japanese Ministry for Cultural Affairs (Bunkachō kokunai)1983, Member of

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We need new skin. It could be something like fur, like the scales of a snake, like the downy hairs of a plant, like glowing glass. It obscures our previous category just as manipulating one of the genes leads to a tomato with a moth gene and a sheep with a frog gene. I am

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Photo report from the September preview, writing for Art Review Asia. Okayama Art Summit 2019: IF THE SNAKEArtistic Director: Pierre HuygheSept 27 – Nov 24, 2019 https://www.okayamaartsummit.jp/2019/

Mika Kitamura, TOPOSAlt_MediumOctober 31 – November 12, 2019

“At the end of the Soviet science fiction film Solaris the astronaut returns home. Everything seems real and normal but somehow he doesn’t trust in anything any longer … What is needed is a new story and one that we (he) can believe in.” HyperNormalisation (2015) If you are lucky, you might stumble across Takashi

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In the remnants of an old Sumo stable (sumo-beya) lives mumei, the artist run space / gallery near the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, Koto-ku. Here, 4649 from Sugamo have set up shop for the month bringing their mystic-nomadic work with them. The main space hosts Yasuaki Hamada’s Neighbors. In one corner lives

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