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2018/12/28
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Our gallery is closed from 25th December to 10th January. (Office opens from 7th January) From 11th January, "Yuma Tomiyasu- Making All Things Equal / The Sleepwalkers" will start. Warmest wishes for a happy new year.
2018/12/22
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Bunpei Kado will participate in the group exhibition "Reborn - Update for the Future Part Creating Ⅱ the Next" at Fukui Fine Arts Museum from January 3 -February 6, 2019! photo: Bunpei Kado "Sky Town"(detail), 2011 For available works of Kado, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■Reborn - Update for the Future Part Creating Ⅱ the Next Date: January 3 -February 6, 2019 Hours: 9:00 am -5:00 pm Venue: Fukui Fine Arts Museum (3-16-1 Bunkyo Fukui-city, Fukui) Admssion: 100yen
2018/12/13
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Kouseki Ono has been participating in the group exhibition "Possibility of modern Prints" at Chigasaki City Museum of Art from December 9, 2018 - February 3, 2019. For available works of Kouseki Ono, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■Possibility of modern Prints Date: December 9, 2018 - February 3, 2019 Hours: 10:00 am -5:00 pm Venue: Chigasaki City Museum of Art (1-4-45 Higashikaigan-kita, Chigasaki-shi, Kanagawa Prefecture) photo : Hundred Layers of Colours no.126, 2016, 900 x 750 mm, screen print
2018/12/05
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Hisaharu Motoda and Oscar Oiwa will participate in the group exhibition "Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History" at The Shoto Museum of Art from December 8, 2018－January 31, 2019. Ruins and ancient remains had been depicted repeatedly in landscape paintings throughout the history of Western art. Admiring the views of ruins and drawing them – this aesthetic was transmitted to modern Japanese art through contact with Western culture. From Hubert Robert the painter and Piranesi the etcher, renowned painters of ruins in the eighteenth century, Constable from the nineteenth century, Henri Rousseau, Magritte and Delvaux in the twentieth century, artists have drawn ruins. Some Japanese painters have also followed this theme: Aodo Denzen in the Edo Period, Fujishima Takeji and Oka Shikanosuke in modern times, and Motoda Hisaharu, Oscar Oiwa and Nomata Minoru in the present day. For some reason, people have been fascinated by the sights of the distant past or distant future that has been destroyed or will be destroyed by the passage of time. This exhibition gathers works depicting ruins and city landscapes in the past or near future, from old Western masters to contemporary Japanese art, to provide insight into this phenomenon. For available works of Motoda and Oiwa, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■Beyond the End: Ruins in Art History Date: December 8, 2018－January 31, 2019 Hours: 10:00 am -6:00 pm (10：00 am- 8:00 pm on Friday) Venue: the Shoto Museum of Art (2-14-14 Shoto, Shibuya, Tokyo) Admssion: General: 500 yen (400 yen); University Students: 400 yen (320 yen); High-School Students/Seniors 60 and Older: 250 yen (200 yen); Elementary/Junior-High-School Students: 100 yen (80 yen) *Numbers inside parentheses ( ) are admission fees for groups of ten or more and for Shibuya residents. photo : Hisaharu Motoda , Revelation-KabukichoⅠ, 2004, lithograph, 520 x 730 mm
2018/11/24
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Exotic x Modern: French Art Deco and inspiration afar presents Mounir Fatmi’s newly produced video “Human Factor”. As his solo show at Art Front Gallery toward the end of 2017 showed the “Periphery Vision” the through his installation and photos. This time, he prolonged into the old days of 1920 in search for periphery of that time, the North Africa and Indochina, decomposing “L’inhumaine” by Marcel L’herbier (1923) considered as manifesto of Art Deco. Fatmi grouped the creator such as Paul Poiret in the gorgeous and modern installation of that time, while trying to show another facet of Art Deco influenced by colonial influence. In fact, according to Fatmi, great painters as Henri Matisse or Paul Clee stayed in North Africa for their creation, and it is well known that African masks were the inspiring source for Picasso or Fernand Leger. Also it should be noted that Surrealists were anti-colonial movement although they were contemporary to these movements. Fatmi tries to show the link between primitivism and colonial Art Deco through his “Human Factor”. So far, Fatmi has tried to present his multi-rooted identity by means of experimental videos. Going back to the twenties and thirties this, he shed light to another “periphery” in the history. As he believes, a culture can only exist viewed from another angle or culture. Geometrical drawing overlapped with the beautiful art deco scenery will give you a feeling of newly produced fragments of vision. For available works of Fatmi, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■EXOTIC × MODERN: French Art Deco and inspiration afar Dates：Saturday, 6 October, 2018 - Monday, 14 January, 2019 Venue:Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum(5-21-9, Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo) Opening Times:10：00–18：00 (Last admission: 17:30) Nov. 23, 24, 30 and Dec. 1, 7, 8 opening until 20:00 (Last admission at 19:30) Closed:Closed on Oct.10 & 24, Nov. 14 & 28, Dec.12 & 26, Dec. 28 – Jan. 4 & Jan. 9 Website : https://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/en/
2018/11/23
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We are pleased to announce Cai Guo-Qiang's solo exhibition "Flora Commedia" at The Uffizi Galleries in Firenze, Italy. November 18, on Piazzale Michelangelo, Cai Guo-Qiang ignited the daytime explosion event City of Flowers in the Sky, inspired by Botticelli’s Renaissance masterpiece Primavera and overlooking the city of Florence, to splendidly unveil the exhibition. Flora Commedia was born from a visit to the Uffizi Galleries in 2017, which included the Boboli Gardens of the House of Medici, the Pitti Palace, the Department of Prints and Drawings. The artist uses flowers as a vessel to manifest the spirit of the Renaissance: its desires and pleasures, its connection with nature, the awakening of humanity and its new perception of the human body. Flora Commedia is a part of a broader multi-year exhibition project for Cai Guo-Qiang, An Individual’s Journey through Western Art History, which has arrived in Florence after the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Museo Nacional Del Prado in Madrid, and then in February 2019 will be at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, before ultimately returning to the East as a culminating presentation of this odyssey. Involving different aspects of the artist’s creativity, the exhibition joins his outdoor daytime explosion event with the intimate moments of igniting gunpowder on canvas and paper. Cai’s technique, refined and complex, established a close exchange with Nature while juxtaposing with the masters of the past in the museum’s nearby rooms to trigger a dialogue with the surrounding art. ■Flora Commedia Date: 2018/11/20 - 2019/02/17 Venue: The Uffizi Galleries in Firenze, Italy
2018/11/08
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We are pleased to announce Takako Azami's solo exhibition @ ATLIA, Kawaguchi Art Gallery from 27th Oct - 9th Dec 2018. For available works of Azami, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■ Takako Azami's solo exhibition Date: 27th Oct - 9th Dec 2018 Hours: 10:00-18:00 (10：00 - 20:00 on Saturday) Venue: ATLIA, Kawaguchi, Art Gallery (1-76 Namikimotomachi Kawaguchi-city, Saitama, Japan) Admssion: free Website(jp): atlia.jp (Photo: Persimmon Tree, Night / 200×200 cm / Japanese hemp paper on panel, Japanese ink , pigments, glue / 2012)
2018/11/03
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Shinji Ohmaki's solo show Suikoy is now on view in collaboration with National Culture and Art Festival Oita 2018. The location is surrounded by beautiful mountain and water streams and called as Suikyo Hita. The artist carried out the area study strolling about the town to generate a new site-specific work inspired with the history or culture that the area has fostered. The subject is the "Forest of Water" reflecting the Suikyo or the title of the exhibit, which is unique to the Ohmaki's art.
2018/11/02
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We are pleased to introduce Takako Hojo's New work.
2018/11/02
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Our current exhibit at Anjin cafe in Daikanayama T-site is featuring on the relationship between text and image. Since this cafe space opened toward the end of 2012, it has attracted many guests with its collection of backnumber mgazines in cultural field. Playfulness or decorativeness long cherished in Japanese culture or art is still alive in some of the contemporary art, and it is this character that we would like to present in this exhibit Crossword through books and letters. Some artists handle letters or alphabets to generate new meaning with different materials such as Japanese coins or maps. The newly created image can be read as a symbolic phrases of peace or war, or even Buddhist sutra. Others tries to alter the form of books through folding each pages or pasted the pages with resin to make it appear like sculpture. The printed "I" by drypoint onto a hand mirror in various language will reflect the society we are living. The generation as well as used materials range largly to show the continuous interest on the side of artists in creating the world of crosswords-letter and image today. ■special exhibition "Crossword -letter and image-" Sep.17th(Mon) - Dec. 9th(Sun) 2018 Place：Anjin café at Daikanyama T-site 2nd Floor, Daikanyama, Shibuya, Tokyo Exhibited Artists： Naoyo Fukuda, Yumi Toｈyama, Kiyoshi Awazu, Yoichiro Otani, Michiko Isono, Takahiro Miyahara, Katsumi Asaba, Takahiro Sagawa, Masayuki Kishimoto, Yui Usui, Yukyo Yamamoto, Aya Murakami, Kaoru Murakami, Alisa Chinen, Bunpei Kado, Takanao Kaneko photo: Naoyo Fukuda "Wing The Secret Garden" /h225 x w300 x d85/ book with folded pages
2018/11/01
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Iku Harada participate in Yoro Art Picnic as a member of "Reality Arts". ■Yoro Art Picnic Time： Saturday, November 3 Sunday, November 4 Venue： Yoro Park Lawn, Site of Reversible Destiny Addmittion free Event Overview ~Objective~ This art event is held in collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (hereafter IAMAS) based on Gifu Prefecture’s “City Park Revitalization Initiative” and in line with Yoro park’s founding principle: “pray for health and longevity, and follow the course of nature and history filled with appreciation for life.
2018/10/09
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Art Front Gallery corporate to "Selected Art Fair 2018 SHU SHU SHU SHOW" at Spiral Garden in Omotesando, Tokyo. ■Selected Art Fair 2018 SHU SHU SHU SHOW Dates : Term 1: 20 October(Sat)–22 October(Mon) 11:00–20:00 Term 2: 25 October (Thu)– 28 October (Sun) 11:00–20:00 Closed on 23 – 24 October for a change of the exhibit Venue : Spiral Garden, Spiral 1F (5-6-23 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0062) Admission Free Website : http://www.spiral.co.jp/takeart/index_e.html Artist: Kana Kou (Kana Yoshida) , Tokuro Sakamoto, Hisaharu Motoda,Yukihisa Isobe, Masumi Nakaoka, Tadashi Kawamata, Shinji Ohmaki, Takako Hojo, Leandro Erlich, Teppei Kaneuji Photo: Teppei Kaneuji Model of Unknown Stage (Snowplow) #1 2018, photo: KIOKU Keizo
2018/10/04
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Tadashi Kawamata's newest project is being exhibited in the group show "Altering Home" in Culture City of East Asia 2018, Kanazawa. Artist Statement Kawamata: Kanazawa Squatters’ Project For this international exhibition held as part of the “Culture Citiy of East Asia” program of Kanazawa City, I planned a project of turning an entire building located close to the museum into a work of art. This project was made possible through the good offices of the owner of the Hakuichi Building, who agreed to rent the whole building to me during the exhibition period. I will stay in the building and work on the project while also introducing my earlier work. And I hope to present the building in its entirety, both inside and out, as a work of art. Come to think of it, this creative endeavor is drawn from the series of apartment projects conducted from around 1982 to 1986. The work may appear an abruptly-materialized unknown object, totally incongruous with the surrounding landscape, which includes the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. It is my hope, however, that something different will come into view from this standpoint. But first, come and experience this Squatters’ Building for yourself. KAWAMATA Tadashi, Paris, March 2018 For available works of Kawamata, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■Culture City of East Asia 2018 Kanazawa: Altering Home Period : Sat. September 15 - Sun. November 4, 2018 Hours : 10:00 - 17:00 Closed : Mondays (Open on Sep. 17, 24, and Oct. 8), Sep. 18, 25, and Oct. 9 * It may vary depending on the venues. Venue : Neighborhoods in Kanazawa city (Hirosaka, Teramachi/Nomachi/Izumi, Ishibiki) Admission : Free Planning by : 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa website : English, Chinese, Korean
2018/09/20
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Cartier will open a precious convenience store of iconic jewelry collection "JUSTE UN CLOU" from September 21st at Omotesando for a limited time. Leandro Erlich cloud works are featured for the interior of this store. "JUSTE UN CLOU" is a jewelry born from a creative twist on a familiar object using a nail motif, relating to the theme of "when the ordinary becomes precious ". The space is inspired by the convenience store in Japan providing an elegant space filled with the essence of Cartier. On September 28th, "JUSTE UN CLOU OWNERS NIGHT" will be limited to patrons only of Cartier. "JUSTE UN CLOU" was a collection that was born in 1971 with designer Aldo Cipullo who was inspired by a nail. With the rise of youth culture and the encounter of punk and high fashion, the creative boom arrived in New York’s freewheeling era in the 1970s. Bold, modern, and innovative, this jewelry collection transcends the everyday, making the ordinary exquisite. The new work that appears in September is a SM style bracelet and ring that has been evolved into a slimmer look, giving the impression of a cool, easy, and modern reflection in its finishing. Period: September 21 - September 30 Opening hours: 12: 00 - 20: 00 Location: 5-16-13 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo https://justeunclou.tokyo photo：Leandro Erlich / Frozen Clouds / 2018 / MDF, paint on acrylic board / 230 x 325 x 175 mm Click here to contact Art Front Gallery about Leandro Ehrlich's works
2018/08/31
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We are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan at AUCKLAND ART GALLERY in New Zealand. Using recycled cardboard boxes to create a model city, the artists invite collaboration by providing materials for Gallery visitors to produce their own small cardboard houses, which will be amassed into the installation. Alfredo & Isabel Aquilizan are also going to exhibit their solo show at ART FRONT GALLERY in Tokyo next year. ■From Pillars to Posts: Project Another Country Venue: Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in New Zealand Date: Mon 30 Apr 2018 — Sun 16 Sep 2018
2018/08/29
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Kouseki Ono participates in a goup show the Sacred of Retina in Ginza T-site. Together with Okada and Komuro, Ono elaborates his microcosmos through his screen print works: hundreds of layers of color created by repetitive bodily action of printing with each dot which is actually accumulation of ink. These "pillars of ink" can be transplanted onto cicada shell, for example. The amazing color scheme produced spontaneously is one of the charms of Ono work. Starting with print work, Ono has followed career of both two and three dimensional works. In 2015, he was awarded the VOCA Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes recommended by curators of museums. His work was also associated with that of Claude Monet to join the exhibit Monet's Legacy currently on view at Yokoyama Museum of Art. Ono's work questions the fluctuation of our seeing by decomposing the color into different layers of ink which can be recomposed in our retina level. For available works of Ono, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■ The Sacred of Retina Date: August 28-September 26 10:00-22:30 Venue: Ginza T-site (6th floor in GINZA 6) ■Monet’s Legacy Date: July 14 (Sat.) - September 24 (Mon.), 2018 Venue: Yokohama Museum of Art pic: Kouseki Ono Adabana 2011, 30ｘ35ｘ35ｍｍ, cast-off shell of a cicada, ink, resin, acrylic gouache
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2018/08/22
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SoKo museum shows Isobe works from his early career in 50s to latest Echigo-Tsumari project, as well as special exhibition in gymnasium, which features his environment motif works after 90s. In this article, we would like to introduce you the brand new work "Kiyotsugawa River was once flowing here", which visualizes the former flow of the Kiyotsugawa river which there was ever to school grounds of SoKo with a yellow pole and flag.
2018/08/20
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Guidebook & passport for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 is now available. ■Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 Duration: 51 days, Sun 29 July to Sun 17 Sep 2018 Venue: Echigo-Tsumari Region (Tokamachi city/Tsunan town, Niigata Prefecture, 760㎢), Japan Click here for details
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2018/08/10
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Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art [SoKo] shows Isobe works from his early career in 50s to latest Echigo-Tsumari project, as well as special exhibition in gymnasium, which features his environment motif works after 90s. In this article, we would like to introduce you the brand new work "Floating Sculpture 2018", which reinterprets his roots back to 60s.
2018/08/10
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2018/08/09
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The gallery will be closed from 2018. Aug. 13 (Mon) to 2018. Aug. 17 (Fri). We are going to open again Teppei Kaneuji's solo exhibition from 18(Sat). If you have any inquiry for the gallery, please contact the office. e-mail: contact@artfrontgallery.com tel: +81-3-3476-4868 Teppei Kaneuji participates in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 during our Summer Holiday too. ■Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Echigo-Tsumari Region, Niigata 2018.7.29-9.17 Teppei Kaneuji、 Leandro Erlich、Cai Guo-Qiang、Shinji Ohmaki、Olaf Nicolai、Adel Abdessemed、Yukihisa Isobe、Mounir Fatmi、Tadashi Kawamata、and more Photo: Teppei Kaneuji Games,Dance & the Constitutions(snowplow)#2, 2018, 900 x 1150 mm
2018/07/27
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We are pleased to announce as a special event“ The world of Yukihisa Isobe : From sign to environment ” of the 7th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018. The exhibit of Yukihisa Isobe with his numerous artworks overlaying all the wings of former Kiyotsu primary School now renovated into Yukihisa Isobe Memorial Echigo-Tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art. ■ “ The world of Yukihisa Isobe : From sign to environment ” Dates: 2018. Jul. 29(Sun) - Sep. 17(Mon) Venue: Isobe Yukihisa Memorial Echigo Tsumari Kiyotsu Soko Museum of Art (SoKo), Tokamachi City, Niigata
2018/07/26
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Olaf Nicolai has just completed his artwork "La lampe sur le jour fait une tache …" for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 in Niigata, Japan ! The work of Olaf Nicolai is situated in rice paddy of Village Shimizu, where colorful street lamps form an island with the lamps. The artist remembers the city light of Tokyo including electric signs, and on the basis of these images were created these artificial light in this remote mountainous area. What effect can they have on the secluded village? The artwork can be visited at night view from sunset to 21h. Click for the detailed report of production in Japanese You can encounter with the drawing for this installation work in anjin café at Daikanyama T-site, not far from Art Front Gallery. “La lampe sur le jour fait une tache …" is on view through September 17. Please do not miss this precious occasion. Click here for details Art Passport and guidebook for Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 is available at Art Front Gallery. ■Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 Duration: 51 days, Sun 29 July to Sun 17 Sep 2018 Venue: Echigo-Tsumari Region (Tokamachi city/Tsunan town, Niigata Prefecture, 760㎢), Japan
2018/07/26
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We are pleased to introduce Iku Harada's New works.
2018/07/13
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We are pleased to announce Shinji Ohmaki's installation in France, Paris from 14 July – August 18, 2018 at Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris. ■FUKAMI, une plongée dans l’esthétique japonaise Tradition and modernity, stream and forms, something ephemeral or eternal, are the features often observed as contradictory aspects of one thing. Japanese aesthetic could be called as co-existence of opponent factors. Presented in the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild, this exhibitShinji Ohmaki, Japanese artist, was conceived by Yuko Hasegawa, one of the commissioners of Japonisme 2018 and director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. She tries to induce the spirit of Japanese aesthetic through the balance between tradition and contemporary. To revitalize the vitality which is proper to Japanese aesthetic, the artistic media handed down is visualized in the Jomon pottery, which is put next to the contemporary design of fashion by young Anrealage, inspired by this pottery art. That is a best example to illustrate the collaborative mind of spectrum ranging from painting, installation, photography, mode, sculpture etc) with various concept such as primitism, hybrid, minimalism, alchemy, philosophy of the lightness or of renaissance. The exhibit conveys the essence of Japanese aesthetic which unites tradition and modernity in a new perspective. Dates: July 14-August 18 Venue: Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Organizer: Japan Foundation Initial concept directed by: Masahiko Tsugawa, President, Promotion Committee of Japonisme 2018 Commissioner Yuko Hasegawa, director of Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and professor of Tokyo University of the Arts With the sponsorship of : Avec le concours de Canon Marketing Japan Inc., JAPAN AIRLINES, MHD Moët Hennessy Diageo K.K.
2018/07/09
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We are pleased to introduce some artworks by special exhibition of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 @ Anjin Cafe,in Daikanyama T-site. We have been exhibiting salable small works by artists who participate in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018. ■ special exhibition of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018 Mon. 9 July to Sat. 16 Sep. 2018 Place：Anjin café at T-site 2nd Floor, Daikanyama, Shibuya, Tokyo artist: Olaf Nicolai, Mounir Fatmi, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Teppei Kaneuji, Tadashi Kawamata, Yukihisa Isobe,Kineta Kunimatsu, Michiko Nakatani, Seizo Tashima Official website of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018
2018/07/09
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Our gallery space is now open as : Wed - Sun 11 - 19h (closed on Mon & Tue) For inquiry, our office staff are available at : a-mail: contact@artfrontgallery.com tel: +81-3-3476-4868 Thank you. Art Front Gallery Current Exhibition: Iku Harada : NEW DIMENSIONS Upcoming Exhibition: Teppei Kaneuji : Summer Fiction
2018/06/21
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We are pleased to introduce Rina Tanaka's New works. Tanaka talks about a process of production, her career, and what she pursues right now.
2018/06/02
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We are pleased to announce Leandro Erlich's solo exhibition in Shanghai, China.
2018/05/30
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We are pleased to announce Leandro Erlich's solo exhibition in Shanghai, China. ■Leandro Erlich: Construction of Reality Duration：June 1, 2018 – October 15, 2018 Venue: HOW Art Museum (Shanghai), No 1, Lane 2277, Zuchongzhi Rd., Pudong New District, Shanghai Organized by HOW Art Museum Supported by Galleria Continua, Art Front Gallery This show brings together over thirty artworks by Erlich, covering his large-scale interactive installations, video installations, and photography, including thirteen monumental interactive installations that offer the audience uncanny experiences via optical illusions. By transforming the architectural spaces through jarring reflections and fascinating labyrinths that disrupt the viewers’ sense of balance and orientation, the artist invites us to question our normal perception of everyday experience. Leandro Erlich: Construction of Reality will be on view from June 1, 2018 through October 15, 2018. Titled Construction of Reality (in Chinese “虚(xū).构(gòu)” – a combination of 虚(xū), meaning illusion, and 构(gòu), meaning construction) this exhibition unfolds the complex duality that characterizes Leandro Erlich’s artistic approach: by way of investigating the ephemeral, illusive aspect of the visual world, he recreates or even reverses the given logic of architectural space. For this solo show at HOW Art Museum, Erlich will present the most recent version of his series Reflective Optical Illusion Building, a new interactive installation in resonance with the historical and cultural landscape of Shanghai. Named Building – Shanghai Bell Tower (Hanging on Time), this piece appropriates the style of the main building of the former Shanghai Art Museum, now known as the Shanghai History Museum. While being “relocated" within the HOW Art Museum’s exhibition space and reflected in large mirrors, this “bell tower”, with its distinctive architectural style of 20th-century Shanghai, will be reactivated through its surreal interactions with the spectators. Within this delightful interruption of normal life, strangers can go beyond its constraints. Other showcased works include Staircase, The Classroom, Lost Garden…, which as a group make up the magical world constructed by the artist.
2018/05/24
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Miwa Taguchi from Taguchi Art Collection comments on the exhibit at Art Front Gallery Hiraku Suzuki: Traffic. Taguchi Art Collection is a collection of contemporary art initiated by Hiroshi Taguchi joined by his daughter, Miwa Taguchi, to include artworks of most demanded work in art scenes today. This collection is currently on view at the Hiratsuka Art Museum.
2018/05/02
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We are very grateful to you for visiting our gallery always. The gallery will be closed as spring holiday from 2017. May. 3 (Thu) to 2017. May. 5 (Sun). Our related artists participates in several group shows here and there during our spring holiday. Please check some more events from following links Hiraku Suzuki participates to Contemporary Art of the 21st Century 2018.4.21 – 6.17 Hitatsuka Museum of Art (Kanagawa, Japan) Opening Hours: 9:30-17:00 (admission until 16:30) Closed Day: Every Monday (open on Monday 30th April) Organizer: The Hiratsuka Museum of Art Special Cooperation: Taguchi Art Collection Cooperation: Shonan Landscape Co.,Ltd. Sponsor: Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co.,Ltd. Curator: Tsuneaki Eguchi (Curator, The Hiratsuka Museum of Art) Shinji Ohmaki participates to Life -- The 100th Anniversary of Chihiro Iwasaki’s Birth Solo Exhibition"Where the Gaze Falls" Period:2018/03/01(Thu) - 05/12(Sat) Venue:Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo / 4-7-2, Shimo-Shakujii, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 177-0042, Japan, Tel. +81-3-3995-0612 Admission:Adults JPY800/ High school students and younger:Free Hours:10am - 5pm. （Admission until 4:30 pm） Closed on Mondays, except4/30. Access The Museum is a 7 minute walk from Kamiigusa station, Seibu Shinjuku Line; a 5 minute walk from Kamiigusa-eki Iriguchi stop, Seibu bus Ogi #14 from Ogikubo station, Chuo Line, or from Shakujii Koen station, Seibu Ikebukuro Line. ART FRONT GALLERY will be opened from May. 6 (Sun), solo show of Hiraku Suzuki. We are looking forward to seeing you again at our gallery. Photo: Constellation #22 / 2018 / 1395x1395mm / sliver ink, earth, chinese ink on paper / photo by Ooki Jingu
2018/04/24
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Grand Prize at 7th Kaii Higashiyama Commemorative Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition The Kaii Higashiyama Commemorative Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition was established in 2002 by the Nihon Keizai Shimbun to recognize a new generation of up-and-coming nihonga painters. At this 7th Exhibition, Takako Azami's work "Cherry Tree Yogo-Zu" received the grand prize. Azami stated that she was not dreamed at all receiving this grand prize. She believes in further possibility of ink as well as mineral pigments, exploring new way of representation. On her own painting, she says, “When you stand by trees, you feel directly the existence of the trees through soughing of the foliage. I would be happy if the viewer feels the glittering light, wind or energy just I feel the breath in nature. Shuji Takashina, Chief jury and President of Ohara Museum of Art, has long appreciated the unique depicting from the backside. This time, according to Takashina, sophistication of the technique, composition well balanced between the main motif of foliage and blank space around it gained high points from jury. Please click here to see Takako Azami's works and her profile. This exhibition is currently on view from 18-28, May. at the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo. 7th Kaii Higashiyama Commemorative Nikkei Nihonga Grand Prize Exhibition Dates: May 18 (Fri) - May 28 (Mon) Opening Hours: 10:00 - 17:00 (last entry at 16:30) * Open throughout the exhibition Venue: Ueno Royal Museum 1-2 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo,110-0007 http://www.nikkei-events.jp/art/nihonga.html (Japanese) Adults \500, College Students \300, High School Students or younger Free image: Cherry Tree Yogo-Zu, 265 x 570 cm, Japanese hemp paper on pane, Japanese ink, pigment, glue
2018/04/13
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We are exhibiting in Art Front Gallery more than 20 pieces of Aki Yamamoto in current exhibit. In addition, one can see some recent 10 pieces in the office space. We are pleased to introduce a new work "Dawning in Spring" depicting the joyful landscape of the spring season. The works of Yamamoto are based on cutout from landscape that the artist views in everyday life. However, it is impossible to grasp at once to depict every corner of the landscape unlike photograph which, according to the artist, records everything as Vermeer in seventeenth century tried to paint all with emerging camera obscula. For Yamamoto, “seeing” is “missing” or leaving something missing, where her own perspective will be reflected in the picture plane. She prefers taking incomplete herself in her work, rather than depicting everything completely, through “replacing” the incomplete parts with her own color and form. Pic: "Dawning in Spring" 2018, 1940 x 2600mm, oil on canvas During the exhibition period, we schedule a talk session by Aki Yamamoto and Takao Tsutsumi, President of the Sezon Museum of Modern Art. Mr. Tsutsumi is very at home in both Japanese and overseas art scene. He will be presenting his topics on Yamamoto’s work to put her in the context of art today. We wish your kind participation in this event. ■Date : April, 19 (Thu)19:30- ■Admission : Free ■Venue : Art Front Gallery ■Reservation : tsuboi@artfront.co.jp Session will be followed by a reunion at the bistro next to the gallery. (3,000JPY a person) Thank you for your attention. Click here for exhibition
2018/03/16
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At the moment of cherry blossom, we are pleased to exhibit the artworks on Sakura or those inspired with Sakura. In Japanese connotation, Hana or flower has long meant Sakura, and appeared widely in artistic representation. Now the emerging artists try to overcome their predecessor through different materials such as lacquer, ceramic, painting and inkjet print. The painting by Satoshi Uchiumi consists of small dots colored in Sakura gradation. We hope that you will take time to visit our exhibit in anjin cafe in Daikanyama T-site. Pic: Satoshi Uchiumi "Under the colors 2018-04" 450 x 400 mm, cotton cloth, oil and watercolor on canvas ■special exhibition "SAKURA SAKU" 19th Mar. 2018 - 30th June. 2018 Place：Anjin café at Daikanyama T-site 2nd Floor, Daikanyama, Shibuya, Tokyo Exhibited Artists： Gyokuju Funada, Shinji Ohmaki, Tokuro Sakamoto, Satoshi Uchiumi, Kana Kou, Yoichirou Nishimura, Hitoshi Kuriyama, Yui Higashibata, Toshitaka Nishizawa, Naoki Onogawa, Yoko Terai, Kosei Komatsu Please also check the current exhibition at Art Front Gallery: Michiko Isono : Passing By , Miyuki Takenaka : New Story.
2018/03/01
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We are pleased to announce Shinji Ohmaki's solo exhibition at Chihiro Art Museum. With Chihiro Iwasaki’s world view as a source of inspiration, Shinji Ohmaki, a modern artist, presents a travel experience using 5 senses through large-scale sculptures. Chihiro Iwasaki’s focus throughout her life in painting images of children is linked to a new perspective, arousing “beauty” and “sequence of life” to all people, children as well as adults. Ohmaki also focuses on Chihiro Iwasaki’s “story” and develops space to weave the threads of a new story with the participants as the subjects. Picture books which may be people’s first contact with art are recreated from a new context. Overview: Life -- The 100th Anniversary of Chihiro Iwasaki’s Birth Solo Exhibition"Where the Gaze Falls" Period:2018/03/01(Thu) ~ 05/12(Sat) Venue:Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo / 4-7-2, Shimo-Shakujii, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 177-0042, Japan, Tel. +81-3-3995-0612 Admission:Adults JPY800/ High school students and younger:Free Hours:10am - 5pm. （Admission until 4:30 pm） Closed on Mondays, except4/30. Access The Museum is a 7 minute walk from Kamiigusa station, Seibu Shinjuku Line; a 5 minute walk from Kamiigusa-eki Iriguchi stop, Seibu bus Ogi #14 from Ogikubo station, Chuo Line, or from Shakujii Koen station, Seibu Ikebukuro Line.
2018/01/31
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We are pleased to announce Nozomi Tanaka participates in Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2018 Winter / SNOWART2018. She updates her installation work in 2015 at Matsudai History Museum. This museum building built at the end of Edo era (almost 140 years old) was made especially for snowy area, which has 10m main colmn and fireplace, huge tatami guest rooms. Using whole space in this traditional Japanese building, Tanaka composes the installation work with paper framed lamps and picture scrolls. opening period 2018. Jan. 27 (Sat) - 2018. May. 11. 9:00〜17:00 close on Wednesday venue Matsudai History Museum （3743-1, Matsudai, Tokamachi-city, Niigata） fee adult 300yen, student 150yen
2018/01/15
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QuintetⅣ , Five-Star Artists ■Period : From January 13th (Sat.) to February 18th (Sun.), 2018.(closed Mondays) ■Location : Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art 1-26-1, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8338 Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Headquarters build. 42nd floor ■Open Hours : 10:00-18:00 (Admittance by 17:30) ■Admission : Adults _ 600yen (500yen),University and High School Students (from 16 to 18 years)_ 400 yen (300yen) Junior High School Students (from 13 to 15 years)_ Free , Children (under 12 years)_ Free ( ) indicated discount rates for groups of 20 and more The Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art is proud to present the latest holding of our ongoing series of “Quintet” exhibitions featuring each year a selection of five promising mid-career artists. The first and second editions of the Quintet exhibitions focused on the theme of ‘landscape’, while the third was focused on ‘nature’, and each time large numbers of viewers have appreciated the fascinating reverberations these shared themes create between the works of the different artists. In this fourth edition of the series, “QuintetⅣ,” we present 83 recent or new works by Emiko Aoki, Miyuki Takenaka, Migiwa Tanaka, Misa Funai and Kumiko Moroi. All five are artists who after graduation from art university have continued their artistic activities with strong principle and conviction, showing their works in exhibitions such as our museum’s Outstanding Rising Artists Exhibition and FACE exhibitions, the VOCA Exhibition and the Shell Art Award Exhibition, and in the process have built their own unique worlds of artistic expression. The theme for this year’s Quintet exhibition is “Between the Figurative and the Abstract.” Paul Gauguin said that ‘Art is an abstraction,’ and he sought to bring new concepts and philosophical elements into his painting. Although it is surely with no conscious awareness that they are following Gauguin’s revolutionary precedent, the five women participating in this exhibition are artists whose works, composed of lines drawn from the intellect and colors that flow intuitively from their sensibilities, are created within the amplitude of the world they perceive and the self they must express. Viewing these works, created by artists who are our contemporaries, certainly offers us a profound glimpse into “Zeitgeist” the spirit of the age we live in. In closing, we wish to express our gratitude to the participating artists and collectors for lending us the works on display and to all who have offered invaluable assistance in making this exhibition possible. We also hope that participation in this Quintet exhibition will prove to be a springboard to further achievement and success for these artists.
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