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【康夏奈 作品展レビュー】彼女そのものが宇宙であったようにおもう(アーツ前橋学芸員・今井朋)

2021/12/31

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【康夏奈 作品展レビュー】彼女そのものが宇宙であったようにおもう(アーツ前橋学芸員・今井朋)

2021年秋にアートフロントギャラリーにて開催した「康夏奈:宇宙からのもう一つの視点」展と、東京都現代美術館にて2022年2月23日まで開催中の「MOTコレクション Journals 日々、記す vol.2」展内で特集展示として出品されている康夏奈の作品について、アーツ前橋の学芸員・今井朋氏にレビューを書いて頂きました。 「康夏奈:宇宙からのもう一つの視点」および、「MOTコレクションJournals 日々、記す vol.2」康夏奈 特集展示 展示風景

Gallery's Picks for the Month (くつろぎの空間アート!ラグジュアリーホテル特集)

2021/12/29

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Gallery's Picks for the Month (くつろぎ空間のアート!ラグジュアリーホテル特集)

今月は、洗練されたくつろぎの空間を彩るホテルのアート作品を紹介します。 あわせてご自宅でも楽しめる各アーティストの作品も紹介。旅の思い出をアート作品に込めて、ご自宅で楽しんで頂くこともできます。 詳細はこちら ■内海聖史 / Satoshi Uchiumi パレスホテル東京(東京都千代田区丸の内1丁目1−1) ■浅見貴子 / Takako Azami アマン東京(東京都千代田区大手町1丁目5−6 大手町タワー) ■鴻崎正武 / Masatake Kozaki セントレジスホテル大阪(大阪市中央区本町3丁目6-12) ■春原直人 / Naoto Sunohara ザ・リッツ・カールトン日光(栃木県日光市中宮祠2482) ■藤堂 / TODO パレスホテル東京(東京都千代田区丸の内1丁目1−1) 紹介作品についてはお気軽にお問い合わせ ください。

Spiral Xmas Market 2021、南青山

2021/12/19

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Spiral Xmas Market 2021, Tokyo

12月26日まで、南青山のスパイラルで開催中のSpiral Xmas Market 2021「Limited Gallery」に参加しています。 ■Spiral Xmas Market 2021「Limited Gallery」 会期:2021月12月17日(金)─26日(日) アーティスト: 原田郁、磯野 迪子、石田 恵嗣、佐治 真理子、藤堂、佐治 真理子、中谷ミチコ、角文平、塩澤宏信、小川剛 開催時間:11:00-20:00 *21日は19:00 クローズ、22日は13:00-オープン  会場:スパイラルエスプラナード(スパイラル M2F) 東京都港区南青山5-6-23 入場料:無料 お問い合わせ:03-3498-1171(スパイラル代表)

レアンドロ・エルリッヒ 《建物--ブエノスアイレス》@ 十和田市現代美術館、青森

2021/12/02

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Leandro Erlich @ Towada Art Center, Aomori

A large-scaled installation with bodily experience has been on view at Towada Art Center since December 1st. Entiled as "Batiment Buenos Aires”, this Batiment is in the permanent collection in the museum. This is the first permanent installation in the world from the series "Batiment", credited work of Leandro Erlich. It is melanged with the batiment or architecture inducing the visitors to the internaility of the work synchronizes the line of Towada Art Center emphasizing the interaction of the audience with the exhibited artwork, offering better appreciation of the art. We hope that you it will attract more attention of the artist.website Related works: 《Batiment II》2004 Inkjet print, framed 1400x900mm price: ASK For available works of Erlich, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here

Gallery's Picks for the Month(いちはらアート×ミックス)

2021/11/27

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Gallery's Picks for the Month(いちはらアート×ミックス)

先日ついに開幕した「房総里山芸術祭いちはらアート×ミックス2020+」からギャラリーいち押しのアデル・アブデスメッド、磯辺行久、冨安由真の作品を紹介します。 芸術祭出品作品の解説とともに、代官山のアートフロントギャラリーで見ることのできる各作家の平面作品も紹介。コレクション作品と空間的な作品の違いもお楽しみ下さい。

冨安由真、アデル・アブデスメッド、磯辺行久 @ いちはらアート×ミックス2020+

2021/11/18

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Yuma Tomiyasu, Adel Abdessemed and Yukihisa Isobe @ Ichihara Art x Mix 2020+

The Ichihara Art x Mix 2020+ will be opened on November 19th at Ichihara city, Chiba. We welcome your attention to this art Triennale where artists of our gallery are participating. Ichihara Art x Mix 2020+ Get a glimpse of the world through art in Boso-Satoyama period: 2021.11.19 (Fri) -12.26 (Sun) Venues Areas along the Kominato railway in Ichihara. Goi , Ushiku , Takataki , Heizo, Satomi , Tsukizaki / Tabuchi, Tsukide , Shiratori , Yoro-Keikoku website ■Yuma Tomiyasu area: Heisan HS-7 "Jacob's Ladder (Dream For Ascension) " HS-12 "The TOWER (Descension To The Emerald City) " ■Adel Abdessemed area: Goi GI-7 "Play it Again" ■Yukihisa Isobe area: Tsukizaki / Tabuchi TZ-4"6000年前、養老川の本流がここを流れていた” TZ-5 "養老川を翔ぶ" event: 11.19(Fri.) 10:00-15:00 Ichihara Art x Mix 2020+

栗林隆 @ BankART KAIKO、横浜

2021/11/15

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Takashi Kuribayashi @ BankART KAIKO, Yokohama

Takashi Kuribayashi will participate in the group exhibition "Tanker Project - Prologue: Road to documenta 15 " from Nov. 19. ■Tanker Project - Prologue: Road to documenta 15 period: Nov. 19 (Fri) to Nov. 28 (Sun) Venue: BankART KAIKO (1F KITANAKA BRICK & WHITE, 5-57-2 Kitanaka-dori, Naka-ku, Yokoahama, Kanagawa) Participating artists and groups: Takashi Kuribayashi (Japan), Rai Shizuno (Japan), Cinema Caravan (Japan), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon / France) , Bandjoun Station (Cameroon) , Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba / Spain), ARTISTA x ARTISTA (Cuba)

企画展「Survival Nature」@ 銀座 蔦屋書店

2021/11/12

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"Survival Nature"@ GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo

この度、アートフロントギャラリーは銀座蔦屋書店 ATRIUMにて14人の作家の作品をお披露目することになりました。新作・近作を含め57点の平面・立体作品になります。 . 「Survival Nature」、生命と自然を改めて見つめなおし、パンデミックも経験した今どのように人間が生き延びていくかをアートを通じて問い直す展示となります。レアンドロ・エルリッヒやクリストなど著名作家から若手まで多種多様な作風が一堂に会します。 . 会期:2021年11月13日(土)~23日(火・祝) 会場:銀座蔦屋書店(GINZA SIX 6階ATRIUM <アーティスト> ⼤岩オスカール (おおいわ・オスカール) 1965年⽣まれ。NYを拠点とし、政治や社会批評的⽬線も含め、空想的でカラフルな平⾯を描く。⾦沢21世紀美術館にて個展(2018)、現在MOTでコロナ禍での⽣活を描いた隔離シリーズ展⽰中。 Christo (クリスト) 1935-2020年。建造物や⾃然を梱包するサイトスペシフィックなプロジェクトを⽣涯続けたパイオニア的巨匠。没後の今年、遂にパリの凱旋⾨をキャンバスで包んだ作品が実現、クリストのドローイングやエディションものに国内外の注⽬が集まっている。 Leandro Erlich (レアンドロ・エルリッヒ) 1973年⽣まれ。⾦沢では21世紀のプール作品をはじめ、新設のKAMU Kanazawa等⾒ることにより知覚を揺るがすようなイリュージョンを仕掛ける。森美術館個展(2018)、前橋の⽩井屋ホテルにも常設。 ⻄咲知美 (にしざき・ともみ) 東京⽣まれ、2014年東京藝術⼤学⼤学院先端芸術表現科修了。美容と医療の狭間にあるような美しい器具を通じて、美に対する意識の社会的あり⽅を視覚化する気鋭の作家。 康夏奈 (こう・かな) 1975-2020年。⾝体を使って⼭や海を体験しながら⾊彩豊かな⾵景を描いてきた康。瀬⼾内国際芸術祭(2013)、MOTアニュアル(2014)などで注⽬され、没後東京都庭園美術館企画展(2020)、東京都現代美術館にて⼤型インスタレーション展⽰中。 春原直⼈ (すのはら・なおと) 1996年⽣まれ。登⼭体験やスケッチをもとに主に⼭岳⾵景を描き、墨や顔料などを⽤いながらも⽇本画の枠を超えようと⽴体作品など様々なアプローチを模索。⽇経⽇本画⼤賞展⼊選(2021)など最も旬な若⼿作家。 ⽯⽥恵嗣 (いしだ・けいじ) 1975年⽣まれ。イギリスに留学し、50年代のイギリスの絵本や図鑑にヒントを得た、物語性の強い油彩で⾒る⼈を⽇常とは異次元の世界へと誘い出す。アートフロントギャラリーで初個展し、今後の活躍が期待される。 Adel Abdessemed (アデル・アブデスメッド) 1971年⽣まれ。アルジェリア出⾝でフランスを拠点に活動、故国から離れ政治・歴史・⽣と死など普遍的なテーマを扱うが多彩なメディアでウィットに富んだ作品。ヴェニスビエンナーレ(4回)、ポンピドーセンター個展等、⽇本では奥 能登芸術祭・妻有・森美術館開館展などで知られるようになった。 ⾦⽒徹平 (かねうじ・てっぺい) 1978年⽣まれ。⽇常的なイメージを様々な素材を⽤いてコラージュ⾵に繋ぎ合わせることで現存の⽂脈を読み替える。ヨコハマトリエンナーレ(2020)、六本⽊アートナイト(2018)に参加。 鴻崎正武 (こうざき・まさたけ) 1972年⽣まれ。雲間に点在するキメラ⾵の動植物や未来の乗り物などが画⾯を埋め尽くす。代官⼭T-SITE Anjin café の壁画を制作(2011)、⽇経⽇本画⼤賞展⼊選(2021)。 ⾓⽂平 (かど・ぶんぺい) 1978年⽣まれ。⽇常のありふれた事物の思いがけない組み合わせから新たな意味をひきだす、主にポップなイメージの作品が多い。第1回ccc AWARDS グランプリ受賞(2013)。 原⽥郁 (はらだ・いく) 1982年⽣まれ。コンピューター上の3D仮想空間を現実の絵画として描き出し、現実世界と仮想空間が⼊れ⼦構造となっている作品が多く、鑑賞者に⼆つの世界を往来するようなイメージを提⽰する。 藤堂(とうどう) 1969年⽣まれ。欧⽶や⽇本の⽯を切断し、切断⾯に積層ガラスを挿⼊、磨き上げた作品で知られる。最近は都市の⽡礫も作品化。東京、京都、台北などのホテルにコレクション多数。 Eko Nugroho (エコ・ヌグロホ) 1977年⽣まれ。インドネシアを代表するアーティスト。広い社会的視点に⽴った平⾯や⽴体等を制作。2019年瀬⼾内国際芸術祭に招待され、空き家でインスタレーションを⾏った。

大巻伸嗣 : Contemporary Art Exhibition「崖と階段」、横浜

2021/11/10

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Shinji Ohmaki: Contemporary Art Exhibition「崖と階段」in Yokohama

Shinji Ohmaki is participating in the exhibition in Yokohama. ■Contemporary Art Exhibition「崖と階段」 Period:October 22nd (Friday) -December 5th (Sunday), 2021 Venue:azumagaoka articulation(3-7 Azumagaoka NIshi-ku Yokohama kanagawa) <Artists> Jun Ishikura Shunsuke Imai Shinji Ohmaki Erika Kasai Takahiro Koga Kohei Sekigawa Tohru Nakazaki Kyotaro Hakamata Felice Beato Sora Yu 画像: 「崖と階段」展示風景、2021、Photo by Ken Kato

康 夏奈、大岩オスカール @ 東京都現代美術館

2021/11/08

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Kana Kou and Oscar Oiwa @ The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Kana Kou and Oscar Oiwa will participate in the group exhibition "MOT Collection: Journals vol.2" at The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from 13 Nov, 2021. (For available works of Kou and Oiwa, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■MOT Collection: Journals vol.2 Sat. 13 Nov, 2021 - Wed. 23 Feb, 2022 The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo houses approximately 5,500 artworks in its extensive collection, which spans the modern and contemporary periods with a focus on art of the postwar years. Each installment of the “MOT Collection” exhibition introduces artworks in the collection from various themes and angles in its effort to convey the diverse appeal of contemporary art. Under the title, “Journals”, artworks created daily against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic that transformed our lives, the Olympics held upon a global scale, and the ordinary day-to-day, are presented across two floors in the form of an anthology comprising a wide variety of artists. Chim↑Pom’s May, 2020,Tokyo (Okubo Station) - Drawing a Blueprint - (on exhibit until late January 2022), as well as print works “Quarantine Series” and Zeus: the God of Olympia by Oscar OIWA (all on special exhibit) will be presented on this occasion along with a selection of approximately 100 works by artists including KOU Kana [YOSHIDA Kana] (feature exhibit), KAWARA On, Fluxus artists (SHIOMI Mieko [Chieko], Nam June PAIK, etc.), MISHIMA Kimiyo, KWAK Duck Jun, OTA Saburo, KOBAYASHI Masato, Christian BOLTANSKI, Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL, and others. Through this extensive and eclectic showcasing of works, the exhibition serves to illuminate the society in which we live, our daily lives, and the memories that surround them. photo:Kana Kou "Secret of Hanasuwa Island "(installation view) 2013

栗林隆 《大谷元気炉》in 宇都宮市大谷町

2021/11/08

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Takashi Kuribayashi "GENKI-RO OHYA No.2"

Currently on view is the Genki-Ro Ohya, a part of Under Museum Challenge 01 GATE (UMC01_GATE) , a project developed in the site of quarry pit of Ohya stone. Ohya stone is scattered around the area Ohya in Utsunomiya City, and this specific stone has been nominated as Japan legacy. Following the Genki-ro, his previous work exhibited in the Nizayama Forest Art Museum last year, this present Genki-ro allows visitors to experience Sauna, thus inducing five senses of human body. Kurhibayashi is scheduled to participate in Documenta 15 at Kassel in the center of Germany in June 2022. Please pay attention to Kurhibayashi’s artistic activity! ■GENKI-RO OHYA No.2 under museum challenge 01 gate. 30, Oct.2021 ~ 23.Nov.2021(sat/sun only) open 9;30 ~ 16;00. Utsunomiy-city Ohya-town muroyama www.under-museum-project.com underground x Genki-ro experience Artist Kuribayashi has frequently visited Fukushima since the Great Disaster 2011, where he received himself a lot of energy from the local people. He was surprised to know the reality, which was different from what he had learned indirectly from his acquaintance. He created a Genki-Ro or steam sauna, with its herb steam in a construction in the form of an atomic reactor after numerous researches of the nuclear issues in the 10th year since the earthquake. He questions the negative problems into positive solutions inquiring if the people entering into this Genki-ro will come out in better bodily condition. They boil water in a huge pan creating the steam of herb. Visitors can enter inside the artwork, feeling as if they are like “control rod” of nuclear reactor. Just like a sauna, they get refreshed, losing themselves in the steam and mist of messy atmosphere to feel the essence of the work with five senses. Through artwork of Kuribayashi, visitors can feel the grandiose scale of the basement space, feel the cooling water, and appreciate the charm of the space. The present Genki-ro is totally different from the previous version of the Genki-ro, if the system remains the same. Please discover on the spot. Just seeing is believing! 参考:《The Reactor》2019、Stained glass (For available works of Kurubayashi, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here)

Gallery's Picks for the Month (猿楽祭特集)

2021/11/03

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Gallery's Picks for the Month (猿楽祭特集)

11月6日、7日に開催される猿楽祭代官山フェスティバル関連イベント「'80s→NOW ART FAIR 80年代から現在までのコレクションより」の出品作家、作品を一部ご紹介します。 オンラインでもご予約を受け付けておりますので、お気軽にお問い合わせください。 【出品予定作家】順不同 川俣正 / 磯辺行久 / 康夏奈 / 角文平 / 藤堂 / 原田郁 / 冨安由真 / 石田恵嗣 / 中谷ミチコ / 大岩オスカール / 大巻伸嗣 / 河口龍夫 / 竹中美幸 / ロイ・リキテンシュタイン / ロバート・ラウシェンバーグ / アントニオ・サウラ / アント二・タピエス / ウィフレド・ラム / ジョアン・ミロ / エステル・アルバルダネ / 粟津潔 / 管井汲 / 元永定正 / 谷川晃一 / クリスト&ジャンヌ=クロード / ジョゼ・デ・ギマラインシュ / ジミー・ダーハム / 黒木周 ほか ※出展作家は予告なく変更になる場合がございます。ご了承ください。 猿楽祭代官山フェスティバル関連イベント 「'80s→NOW ART FAIR 80年代から現在までのコレクションより」 会期:2021年11月6日(土)、7日(日) 開場:アートフロントギャラリー1F、2F(東京都渋谷区猿楽町 29-18 ヒルサイドテラス A棟)

中谷ミチコ: 展覧会情報

2021/10/31

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Michiko Nakatani's exhibitions

Michiko Nakatani is currently exhibiting in two galleries. (For works of Nakatani, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here ■Michiko Nakatani "The sky moves" period: 2021, Nov 1, (Mon.) - 2022, Jan 30, venue: CAFE & SPACE NANAWATA(2-4-4 Matsuecho, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-0056) website ■Group exhibitionmado-beya企画 第7回目 「自らの。かたち」展 period: 2021, Oct 9th (Sat) -Dec 26th (Sun) venue: mado-beya(2 Chome-4-3 Central, Ishinomaki, Miyagi 986-0822) website

冨安由真@金沢21世紀美術館

2021/10/27

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Yuma Tomiyasu @ 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Yuma Tomiyasu's solo exhibition is held at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa from Oct. 30th (Sat.) 2021. (For available works of Tomiyasu, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Aperto 15: TOMIYASU Yuma period:2021.10.30 (Sat.) - 2022.3.21 (Mon.) venue: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa In Aperto 15, artist TOMIYASU Yuma will set up artificial paranormal phenomena in a deserted room, allowing visitors to experience that “a sign of presence” forming the line between fictive and real. What Tomiyasu describes through such non-scientific things is a consciousness that emerges beyond body tissue, manifesting when the spirit of artist and spectator infiltrate each other. Her installation in the shape of a room gives the viewer a sense of a real, albeit invisible presence. The gallery space becomes a real dwelling place inhabited by the phantoms of those absent; projecting the presence of matter like a dream potentially perceived via a special, affinitive relationship between artist and spectator, instead of a hostile one mediated by the work. Click here for details (image: "The Pale Horse" ©️Yuma Tomiyasu)

【奥能登国際芸術祭2020+】いち押し4作家の作品紹介記事をアップしました

2021/10/08

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【奥能登国際芸術祭2020+】いち押し4作家の作品紹介記事をアップしました

最果ての地と呼ばれる石川県珠洲市にて、11月5日まで開催中の奥能登国際芸術祭2020+。16の国と地域からから参加している53組(うち新作47組)のアーティストの中から、ギャラリー一押しの4名の作家をご紹介します。 「Gallery's Picks for the Month 」と称して月替わりのお勧め作品を紹介する当記事では、河口龍夫、磯辺行久、カールステン・ニコライ、中谷ミチコの芸術祭での作品解説とともに、代官山のアートフロントギャラリーで見ることのできる各作家お勧めの平面・立体作品をご紹介いたします。 作品のお問い合わせはcontact@artfrontgallery.com もしくは03-3476-4868(担当:庄司・坪井)まで。

金氏徹平@エルミタージュ美術館、ロシア

2021/09/23

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Teppei Kaneuji @ Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Teppei Kaneuji is participating the ongoing exhibition “Glasstress” at Hermitage Museum in Russia. For your reference, glass works “Smoke and fog (Murano)#1-5” at our exhibition Teppei Kaneuji: S.F.(Smoke and Fog) at Art Front Gallery through October 3th were created at a studio in Murano, Venice in Italy. These artworks are composed of blown glass and transparent objects found in every life. They were produced in two sets, one kept by the artist in Japan while the other in the Italian studio. This time, a synchronized exhibit was realized for the first time: one set #1-5 on view in Art Front Gallery while the other at renowned museum of Hermitage in Russia at the same time. Title of the exhibition:Glasstress. Window to the Future Date: 9.11-10.31, 2021 Venue:The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia The latest edition of Glasstress showcases artworks made with glass by contemporary artists. In 2015 the exhibition Glasstress Gotika, was organized by the State Hermitage and held in the Palazzo Franchetti in Venice during the Venice Biennale. The display included items from the museum's collection – armor, religious objects, and other works of applied art made in the Gothic and Neo-Gothic styles – that were presented in a dialogue with pieces created by contemporary artists in Murano. Keneuji participated in both exhibit of 2015 at Palazzo Franchetti and in 2021 at Hermitage. Exhibit in 2021 is mixing it up, bringing Murano to Saint Petersburg with the work of over fifty contemporary artists. Last time the past was the inspiration, this time it's the future. Glasstress. Window to the Future is one of the museum’s largest exhibitions of contemporary art, occupying more than ten halls, including the monumental expanse of the Grand Enfilade and White Hall, as well as the intimate spaces of the Courtyard Gallery and the Red Hall in the General Staff Building. It features more than 50 works created in glass by contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei, Tony Cragg, Jimmie Durham, Jan Fabre, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Vik Muniz, Mimmo Paladino, Jaume Plensa, Wael Shawky, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Kaneuji Teppei, Kaneuji attracting much attention, we appreciate your interest in this international exhibition. The installation view at Hermitage Museum, 2021. The installation view at Art Front Gallery, 2021. image: 《Smoke and fog (Murano)#5》 2015 / glass, glass products, plastic products/ 570x350x350mm (Art Front Gallery, Tokyo)

クリストとジャンヌ=クロード:梱包された凱旋門 、 パリ、1961-2021

2021/09/18

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961-2021

Christo and Jeanne-Claude ”L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961-2021” L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped (Project for Paris, Place de l'Étoile - Charles de Gaulle), a temporary work of art, will be on view for 16 days, from Saturday, September 18 to Sunday, October 3, 2021. Per Christo's wishes, the project has been completed by his team in partnership with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux (CMN), the government institution that manages the Arc de Triomphe. Christo and Jeanne-Claude long worked for the project of wrapping L’arc de Triomphe, symbol of Paris or even of Western Europe. In 1961, three years after they met in Paris, Christo rented a small room near the Arc de Triomphe and had been attracted by the monument ever since. Then he made a photomontage of the Arc de Triomphe wrapped and collage later. After his beloved wife’s passing away in 2009, he continued the project scheduled in the spring 2020, which was postponed to 2021 because of corona pandemic. Christo himself died at the age of 84 in May, 2020, so he could not see with his own eyes the wrapped Arc. The Arc de Triomphe is wrapped in 25,000 square meters of recyclable polypropylene fabric in silvery blue, and with 3,000 meters of red rope. The long project since 1961 was finally realized. (For available works of Christo, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) Christo and Jeanne-Claude at The Pont Neuf Wrapped Paris, 1985(Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 1985 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) Fabric panels are being unfurled in front of the outer walls of the Arc de Triomphe Paris, September 12, 2021 (Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) Fabric panels are being unfurled in front of the outer walls of the Arc de Triomphe Paris, September 12, 2021 (Photo: Wolfgang Volz © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) Ropes are being installed to secure and contour the fabric on the Arc de Triomphe ( © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) Christo and Jeanne-Claude L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961-2021 Paris, 2021 (Photo: Benjamin Loyseau © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation) image: Christo and Jeanne-Claude L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped, Paris, 1961-2021 Paris, 2021 (Photo: Lubri © 2021 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation)

【藤堂 ✕ Kuon】 NewYork Fashion weekでコラボしました。

2021/09/13

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[Ramon Todo x Kuon ] first collaboration @ NewYork fashion week

TODO’s works emerge in the collection announced by fashion brand, KUON for New York Fashion Week 2021. Under the them of “Color of Light”, new perspective of the work by TODO was expressed through the collaboration. To see Video Click here. If you are interested in TODO's works, please contact us via here For more information about the artist, TODO (Ramon TODO), click the link below. https://artfrontgallery.com/en/artists/Todo.html Instagram account for KUON https://www.instagram.com/kuon_tokyo/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/kuon_store/?hl=en

いよいよ開幕!奥能登国際芸術祭2020+

2021/09/03

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Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+ A foremost art festival at the furthest edge of the world !!

The Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+will be opened on September 4th at Suzu City, Ishikawa, located in the north point of Peninsula Noto. We welcome your attention to this art Triennale where a number of artists of our gallery are participating. Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+ A foremost art festival at the furthest edge of the world. ・Artists 48 artists from 16 countries have been decided. ・Duration September 4th(Sat)-October 24th(Sun) 2021, 51 days ・Venue Across Suzu-City, Ishikawa Prefecture (247.20km²) ***** 新型コロナウイルス感染症の感染状況に合わせて、一部作品の公開が休止されます。詳しくは、お出かけ前にウェブサイト にてご確認ください。 ①石川県内に「緊急事態宣言」が発出されている場合→全作品の公開を休止 ②石川県内に「まん延防止等重点措置」が適用されている場合→一部作品の公開を休止 ③石川県内に特別な措置等の適用がない場合→全作品を公開 ***** photo: Michiko Nakatani 『すくう、すくう、すくう』 (石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開休止) Artworks Teppei Kaneuji『tower(SUZU)』 高屋港、ショッピングプラザシーサイド屋上(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Ayako Kuno『静かに佇む』、スズ・シアター・ミュージアム「光の方舟」(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Miyuki Takenaka『覗いて 眺めて』、スズ・シアター・ミュージアム「光の方舟」(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Yoshitaka Nanjo『余光の海』、スズ・シアター・ミュージアム「光の方舟」(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Tobias Rehberger 『Something Else is Possible』2017 旧蛸島駅周辺(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Yukihisa Isobe『偏西風/対馬海流・リマン海流』 珠洲市民図書館(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開) Oscar Oiwa『植木鉢』 旧正院駅(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_一部公開) Carsten Nicolai『Autonom』 旧粟津保育所(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開休止) Michiko Nakatani『すくう、すくう、すくう』 スズ交通待合所 2 階(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開休止) Tatsuo Kawaguchi『Small Lost Article Museum』2017 旧飯田駅(石川県内まん延防止等重点措置適用期間中_公開休止)

金氏徹平:展示情報 in 東京

2021/08/21

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Teppei Kaneuji’s exhibitions in Tokyo

Teppei Kaneuji is currently exhibiting in two galleries. We would appreciate very much your kind visit to his solo exhibit in Art Front Gallery from September 10th , accelerating expectation with his activities. (photo:《tower (WOODEN BOX)》2021、H79.5 x W40 x D40cm) ■Teppei Kaneuji Solo Exhibition : S.F.(Splash and Fragments) Period: 2021.08.20. Fri - 09.18. Sat Venue: RICOH ART GALLERY (〒104-0061 5-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo San-ai Dream Center Building, 8th & 9th Floor) websitebooking ■Sayaka Murata’s Utopias Violence and the Structure of Normality David Shrigley & Teppei Kaneuji in dialogue with Murata’s worldview Period: 2021.08.20. Fri - 10.17. Sun Venue: GYRE GALLERY / GYRE 3F 5-10-1 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo website 

中谷ミチコ @ 神奈川県立近代美術館、葉山館

2021/08/15

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Michiko Nakatani @ The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama

Michiko Nakatani is participating in the exhibition "Forms in Space: from Alberto Giacometti to Tadaaki Kuwayama" at The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama in Japan. (For available works of Nakatani, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Forms in Space: from Alberto Giacometti to Tadaaki Kuwayama Period: Saturday, April 24, 2021 – Sunday, September 5, 2021 Nakatani's Works: Exhibition Room II August 9th-September 5th Venue: The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama (2208-1, Isshiki, Hayama, Kanagawa 240-0111) ”Wearing Fish Skin" 2010 / 125.8×69.4×11.0㎝ "Traces" 2021 / 85.8×58.6×10.0㎝

金氏徹平 @ 日本橋高島屋、東京

2021/08/13

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Teppei Kaneuji @ Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. in Tokyo

The installation artwork of Teppei Kaneuji is exhibited at Nihombashi Takashimaya S.C. in Tokyo. (For available artworks of Kaneuji, please visit the artist page of Art Front Gallery. : Click here) ■Sikkai period: Wednesday, July 14, 2021 → Tuesday, August 17, 2021 venue: Nihombashi Takashimaya Shopping Center (2-4-1 Nihombashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-8265) photo: Ghost in the Liquid Room (Make-up Shadow / Ground Floor),2021

栗林隆が『完全版マハーバーラタ』の舞台美術を担当

2021/08/02

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栗林隆が『完全版マハーバーラタ』の舞台美術を担当

栗林隆が舞台『完全版マハーバーラタ』の舞台美術を担当します。 (栗林についてはこちら) インド古代叙事詩マハーバーラタ。本作品は、2011年の震災後に演出家・小池博史氏が構想を開始し、2013年にプノンペン(カンボジア)で滞在制作をしてカンボジアとベトナムツアーを行った『マハーバーラタ第1部』。以後、アジア6ヶ国(日本、インド、インドネシア、マレーシア、タイ、カンボジア)から各国のトップアーティストが参加し、シリーズ作品として5ヶ国で7作品を制作し上演した。各国の舞踊文化に基づいた身体表現、それぞれの言語で行き交う演劇、民族音楽からラップまでを取り込んだ音楽など、ジャンルレスに表現を構築する。そしてついに今回『完全版マハーバーラタ』として全編の上演が実現する。 ■完全版マハーバーラタ ~ 愛の章/嵐の章 上演日時: 2021年8月20日:「愛の章」18:00~ 2021年8月21日:「愛の章」12:00~、「嵐の章」18:00~ 2021年8月22日:「愛の章」12:00~、「嵐の章」18:00~ 2021年8月23日:「嵐の章」14:00~※開場は各開演の30分前より、上演時間は各公演約3時間 会場:なかのZERO 大ホール 住所:東京都中野区中野2-9-7 電話番号:03-5340-5000 チケット予約:https://mb2020.info/ticket

今年の越後妻有(中谷ミチコ・河口龍夫・安野太郎)

2021/07/22

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今年の越後妻有(中谷ミチコ・河口龍夫・安野太郎)

今年予定されていた「大地の芸術祭 越後妻有アートトリエンナーレ2021」は延期となりましたが、7月22日より「今年の越後妻有」と題して新作を含めた作品群を公開します。 2大拠点施設の越後妻有里山現代美術館(MonET)と、まつだい雪国農耕文化村センター「農舞台」はこの夏リニューアルオープンしました。また、地域におけるパフォーミング・アーツの可能性を探る拠点「上郷クローブ座」でも新作が展開されます。 各拠点で、ギャラリー関連作家の最新作もご覧いただけます。ぜひお楽しみください。 中谷ミチコ《遠方の声》@越後妻有里山現代美術館(MonET)、十日町 河口龍夫《関係-黒板の教室》@まつだい雪国農耕文化村センター「農舞台」、松代(リニューアル、参考写真) 安野太郎《部屋とピアノの為のコンポジション「偽ハルモニア論」》@上郷クローブ座、津南(参考画像) 「今年の越後妻有」 2021年7月22日-10月31日 お盆期間(8月7日~15日)は定休日に関わらず毎日営業いたします。※ギャラリー湯山を除く ・十日町エリア: 越後妻有里山現代美術館 MonET(火水定休)、絵本と木の実の美術館(水木曜定休) ・松代エリア: まつだい「農舞台」フィールドミュージアム(火水定休) ・川西エリア: 光の館(不定休) ・松之山エリア: 「森の学校」キョロロ(火曜定休)、最後の教室(土日祝日のみ開館)、ギャラリー湯山(7月24日~土日祝のみ開館) ・津南エリア: 越後妻有「上郷クローブ座」(土日祝日のみ開館)、香港ハウス(土日祝日のみ開館) ・中里エリア: 清津峡渓谷トンネル(7月22日~8月15日は事前予約制)

大岩オスカール:旅人生はつづく(東京都現代美術館での展示から

2021/07/15

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Oscar Oiwa: Let’s go on a life trip! Exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

The exhibit “MOT Collection: Journals” will be on view from July 17 to October 17, including large drawings and silk screen by Oscar Oiwa. As entitled, this group show is a kind of anthology composed of pieces created in the daily lives under corona pandemic as well as with the background of Olympic games. Among others, the special exhibit of Oscar reflects the “life trip” of the artist, as he admits, who observes and represents the characteristic of different scenery of respective societies. We introduce the main images as follows. Zeus, God of Olympia landing at Tokyo “Zeus, God of Olympia” 2019 marker pen and charcoal on paper, h300 x w670cm (3 pieces in total) ©OSCAR OIWA This series was first exhibited in the Japan Cultural Institute in Paris in fall 2020 (“Transphere” #6Curator: Aomi Okabe). Memories of the cities in Rio, Tokyo and Paris are collaged, to generate the face image of Zeus, God of Ancient Olympia when installed vertically. The artist finds the similar diligence in athlete and himself targeting the goals as below. I have never had the ambition of becoming an Olympic champion, but just like these atheletes, I strive every day to surpass myself in my work. This parallel has inspired me to create a new series that merges this daily struggle with my travelling life. Three Olympic cities to which I am personally linked – Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris – are at the heart of these paintings, in which I have hidden some of my memories. (fromThe Japan Foundation “Contemporary Artist Exhibition Report Transphere 2016-2020”, 2021, p.222) detail “Quarantine Series” all the silk screen works revealed In 2020, corona pandemic began to spread throughout the world including New York where Oscar lives and works. Main spots such as Times Square become vacant with no people or the artist himself is confined within his apartment, unable to commute his atelier in the suburb. Nevertheless, Oscar tried what he could do in this inconvenience using large digital tablet to produce “Quarantine Drawing Series”. This series was printed in Japan and was exhibited in Art Front Gallery. This print series is now on view at MOT for the first time. Please enjoy the imaginary trip by the artist from Shanghai, Osaka, Japan at the period of before-war, and New York, to find the details of daily life, which might have been overlooked in the world without pandemic. “A Sick Country” 2020, 56.5 x 76.5cm, silk screen on BFK rive paper This piece was conceived more than one year ago, when the vaccine was not realized at all. The imagination of the artist has become true. “Kitchen of the Future” 2020, 56.5 x 76.5cm, silk screen on BFK rive paper This image was based on Oscar’s own kitchen, to generate the future concept with animals. In addition to these pieces exhibited in the museum, Art Front Gallery can also offer the painting for the “Quarantine Series”, oil on canvas, created in the same period. When the city of NY was locked down, the shops were equipped with veneer wood to prevent from looting. The painting are themselves outcome of the registration of this specific time while they are proof of artist’s keeping on creating on the basis of his own memory. Store front at New York with veneer board, (©OSCAR OIWA, from video clip) 《shop (market)》2020 oil on canvas, veneer 58 x 76cm 《shop (China town)》2020 oil on canvas, veneer, 50 x 61cm ■MOT Collection: Journals Special exhibit: Mark Manders, Storage and Display Sat. 17 Jul - Sun. 17 Oct, 2021 at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo On the first floor, under the title, “Journals,” artworks created daily against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and disastrous events that have transformed our lives, the Olympics held upon a global scale, and the ordinary day-to-day, are presented in the form of an anthology comprising a wide variety of artists. Highlights of the exhibition include Chim↑Pom’s May, 2020, Tokyo, as well as new print works “Quarantine Series” and Zeus: the God of Olympia by Oscar OIWA (all on special exhibit). Such are featured on this occasion along with a selection of around 70 works by artists such as NINAGAWA Mika, TAKEUCHI Kota, MIYAKE Saori, and KAWARA On, all serving to illuminate the society and daily life in which we live.

春原直人 @ GINZA SIX、東京

2021/07/13

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Naoto Sunohara @ GINZA SIX, Tokyo

Naoto Sunohara is participating in the group exhibition at GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo. (For available works of Sunohara, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Emerging Artists Exhibition Art Book “Newcomer Artists 100” is a special feature that introduces 100 up-and-coming artists recommended by curators, art critics, and artists who are based in Japan or have their roots in Japan. A wide variety of artists were featured, from young, almost unknown artists to those who have been very active in recent years and those who have started studying art after retirement. This time, the work of artists in their 20s and 30s, who are now gaining momentum and will be attracting more and more attention in the future, will be exhibited in two parts. Period: Part 2: July 14th, 2021 (Saturday) - July 21st, 2021 (Wednesday) Venue: Ginza Atrium

鴻崎正武、春原直人:日経日本画大賞展 @ 上野の森美術館

2021/05/10

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Masatake Kozaki & Naoto Sunohara @ The Ueno Royal Museum

Masatake Kozaki and Naoto Sunohara will participate in the exhibition "The 8th Higashiyama Kai Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award" at The Ueno Royal Museum, Japan. ■The 8th Higashiyama Kai Memorial Nikkei Nihonga Award Period June 1th (Tuesday) -June 6th (Sunday), 2021 Note: Please confirm the dates or open hours before your visit! Venue The Ueno Royal Museum (1-2 Ueno Park, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0007) Masatake Kozaki《MUGEN-Tree of Life-》2020 240.0×170.0 hemp paper, metal leaves, mineral pigments, acrylic on wooden panel Under the corona situation, Kozaki kept his creative activity at home feeling the air which move the world to a different border from the present one. He entitled his new work as MUGEN meaning “ephemeral illusion”. While he was using a composition of Rakuchu Rakugai city scape or hybrid arrangement of animals and plants, in this work he used the tall format with botanical landmark in the center where “everything is in ascension against gravity with mixture or disorder of all the animals, plants, humans or even technology in chaotic world” thus proposing a universal dream do be depicted in the current society to put stress on the same dream shared by the all the people. Naoto Sunohara《Airy Plue》 2018 200.0×600.0 Japanese paper, mineral pigments, seiboku (bluish ink) on wooden panel Sunohara was exhibited in last March in the exhibit VOCA selection throughout Japan and attract much attention nowadays. His professor Natsunosuke Mise once stated about the artwork of Sunohara as Sunohara creates paintings on the basis of Shasei with surrounding objects as motifs. His original experience can be traced in climbing up mountains in his hometown Shinshu (Nagano) area. Imagined scenery of older days acquired only through time difference between the present and past has been mixed in complex layers with the real landscape of Yamagata where he lives and works. Such process contributes to generate an almost abstract painting of “mountain itself”, where his breath is overlapped with the picture plane. We hope that you will enjoy their works together with other artist’s in the venue.

GW休廊のお知らせ

2021/04/28

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Spring holiday notice

We are very grateful to you for visiting our gallery always. The gallery will be closed as spring holiday from April 29th (Thu.) to May 5th (Wed.), 2021. Our related artists participates in several group shows here and there during our spring holiday. Please check some more events from following links. Online exhibition "Beyond the Lines" Oscar Oiwa Artists’ Breath @ Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Chiba. April 3 (Sat.) -June 27(Sun), 2021 Adel Abdessemed Yukihisa Isobe Leandro Erlich Oscar Oiwa Teppei Kaneuji Tadashi Kawamata Ayako Kuno Miyuki Takenaka Yuma Tomiyasu Michiko Nakatani Yoshitaka Nanjo Carsten Nicolai "Metamorphosis" at Gallery 82, Nagano April 23 (Fri)-May 23 (Sun), 2021 Naoto Sunohara "Apple Cycle / Cosmic Seed" at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Aomori April 10 (Sat) -August 29 (Sun), 2021 Tatsuo Kawaguchi “Aerodream-Architecture, Design and Inflatable Structures 1950-2020” at Centre Pompidou – Metz, France January 30 - August 23, 2021 Yukihisa Isobe ART FRONT GALLERY will be opened from May 6th (Thu), The exhibition "Art Front Selection 2021 spring". We are looking forward to seeing you again at our gallery.

冨安由真: テレビ朝日『アルスくんとテクネちゃん』出演

2021/04/24

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Yuma Tomiyasu: テレビ朝日『アルスくんとテクネちゃん』出演

冨安由真が、4月29日放送のテレビ番組『アルスくんとテクネちゃん』に出演します。どうぞご注目ください。 (冨安については こちら) ■『アルスくんとテクネちゃん』 放送予定: 2021年4月29日(木)24:15~ テレビ朝日(関東ローカル) 今回放送に登場するのは、朽ち果てた廃墟のような空間へと観る人を誘い、不気味さやなつかしさを想起させる現代美術家、冨安由真さん。ソファや鹿のはく製などが置かれた空間には、同じ廃墟を映した映像が流れ、壁には部屋の一角を描いた絵画がかけられています。その入れ子構造の空間を通じて冨安さんが提示する、現実と非現実の間にある“曖昧”なものの存在とは。 ”Shadows of Wandering (ThePaintings)”2021、パネルに油彩、フレーム Art Front Selection 2021 spring展示風景

山本晶: オンライントークイベント

2021/04/22

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Aki Yamamoto: Online talk event

先日のアートフロントギャラリーでの個展も記憶に新しい山本晶が、今週末に芸術・文化の批評を行う「蜘蛛と箒」主催のオンライントークイベントに参加します。金田実生とお互いの制作について質問していきながら、「描くことのあいだ」にあるものについて語っていきます。 (山本については こちら) 蜘蛛と箒企画特別講座|金田実生/山本晶|描くことのあいだに 【詳細情報】 開催日時:2021年4月24日(土) 19:00-21:00(延長の場合は21:30) 料金:1,500円 (振込手数料別) 定員:25名※事前予約制 お申し込み方法:お名前と連絡可能なメールアドレスを明記の上 aslspbank@gmail.comにメールでのお申し込みをお願いします。 支払い方法:銀行振込もしくはPayPalになります。 オンラインで使用するアプリケーション:Zoom (photo: 山本晶 《ルート》2021、キャンバスに油彩、805 x805mm)

河口龍夫 @ 慶應義塾大学アート・センター、東京

2021/04/21

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Tatsuo Kawaguchi @ Keio University Art Center, Tokyo

The exhibit “Tatsuo Kawaguchi Non-Respiring” is currently on view at Keio University Art Center. Under the coronavirus pandemic where ordinary life is limited, the crucial issues such as life and death, non-gravity, education have been inspiring sources of nearly one hundred new artworks created last year. One may be associated with the “Blackboard Class Room” at the No-Butai, Matsudai. We appreciate very much your visit to the solo exhibit of Kawaguchi. (For available works of Ono, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Artist Voice I: Tatsuo Kawaguchi non-respiring period: April 19, 2021~June 18, 2021 (Online reservations are required) Venue: Keio University Art Space [Located on the ground floor of Keio University South Annex] 2-15-45, Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8345, Japan Related events: The Symposium "Tatsuo Kawaguchi: Time Boomerang" Date: May 8th, 2021 (Sat.) 14:30 - 16:30 Speakers: Tatsuo Kawaguchi / Tomotaro Kaneko / Yohko Watanabe venue: Online (Zoom Webinar) Meeting link: https://keio-univ.zoom.us/j/85617729426?pwd=T3Z3cTlqOEFVMGUwUVUwQUZjTE5Fdz09 Password: 391261 The new exhibition series “Artist Voice” intends to host intimate exhibitions which allow us to intuit an artist’s raw voice and utterances by taking advantage of the distinguishing features of the facility as a small, standalone exhibition space. The first exhibition will focus on displaying pieces produced by Tatsuo Kawaguchi over the course of the past year, in direct response to life under the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic. It will also include related works by the artist from “SHOW-CASE project No. 4 Tatsuo Kawaguchi Gaze Breathing via Branchial Respiration,” an exhibition which was directly impacted by the onset of the pandemic last year. This event will likely present the perfect opportunity to ask questions about the very nature of “the exhibition” by considering the present moment through the lens of one such exhibition.

河口龍夫 @ 弘前れんが倉庫美術館、青森

2021/04/21

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Tatsuo Kawaguchi @ Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Tatsuo Kawaguchi is participating in the exhibition "Apple Cycle / Cosmic Seed" at Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan. (For available works of Kawaguchi, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Apple Cycle / Cosmic Seed Period: 2021.4.10 (SAT) ― 8.29 (SUN) Artists: AMEMIYA Yosuke, Cerith WYN EVANS, KAWAGUCHI Tatsuo, TAKANO Aya, WADA Reijiro, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, SASAMOTO Aki, HAN Ishu Venue: Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art 2-1 Yoshino-cho, Hirosaki City, Aomori, Japan 036−8188

椛田ちひろ 公開制作 @ 府中市美術館、東京

2021/04/17

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Chihiro Kabata Open Studio @ Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo

Chihiro Kabata’s solo show is held on Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo. (For further information about Kabata, please click here) ■Open Studio 81: Chihiro Kabata Period Saturday, April 17, 2021 to Sunday, July 11. Open Studio April: 17th and 24th May: 1st, 8th, 22nd and 29th June: 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th Display of a completion works From Sunday, June 27, Sunday, July 11. Venue : Fuchu Art Museum Open Studio (1chome-3, Asamacho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo)

金氏徹平 @ 武蔵野美術大学、東京

2021/04/05

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Teppei Kaneuji @ Musashino Art University Museum, Tokyo

Teppei Kaneuji is participating in the exhibition "Omni-Sculptures ー The Site of Emergence" at Musashino Art University Museum. (For available works of Kaneuji, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Omni-Sculptures ー The Site of Emergence Projects by artists who are driving forces in contemporary sculptures:Shigeo Toya, Katsura Funakoshi, Makoto Ito, Noe Aoki, Atsuhiko Misawa, Yasuyuki Nishio, Koji Tanada, Yoshihiro Suda, Motohiko Odani, Teppei Kaneuji, and Sachi Hasegawa. Through the omnidirectionality of the sculptures resulting from these eleven sculptors having their own distinctive vectors, and the layout by Hiroshi Sugito, the exhibition space as a single expressive unit indicates new possibilities in sculpture. Date April 05, 2021(Mon)〜June 20, 2021(Sun) Venue Musashino Art University Museum Atrium 1・2, Gallery 1・2 (Musashino Art University Takanodai Campus, 1-736 Ogawa-cho, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo, 187-8505) (photo: Teppei Kaneuji《S/F (Sculpture/Fiction) 》2019, Inkjet print, stainless steel, 300.0×220.0cm)

大岩オスカール:オンライン美術展

2021/04/03

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Oscar Oiwa : Online exhibition "Beyond the Lines"

Oscar Oiwa is participating in the Online exhibition "Beyond the Lines" on youtube. (For available works of Oscar, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) 【Beyond the Lines】 The spread of Covid-19 had a heavy impact on society worldwide, and contact between individuals has been greatly curtailed to contain the pandemic. Art museums around Japan have been affected by the situation, with institutions being forced to close their doors, and many exhibitions having to be canceled or postponed. Despite these circumstances, artists are still actively producing and exhibiting. The Japan Foundation (JF) is organizing an online exhibition by six such artists to present their new works, along with interviews, to give viewers at home the opportunity to discover and enjoy their art. Artists: Oscar OIWA KONOIKE Tomoko TANADA Koji Nerhol MATSUBARA Megumi YOKOO Tadanori

磯辺行久@ポンピドー・メッス「膨らむ建築展」

2021/03/26

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Yukihisa Isobe @ Centre Pompidou – Metz “Aerodream-Architecture, Design and Inflatable Structures 1950-2020”

Yukihisa Isobe is participating in the exhibition “Aerodream-Architecture, Design and Inflatable Structures 1950-2020” at Centre Pompidou – Metz, France. This exhibition features on the development of pneumatic structure and its derivatives, newly introduced as a material in the architecture as well as design in post-war period. It includes maquettes, drawings and photos. After the petrol crisis at the end of the 1970’s which would sound the death knell of an ideology of the use of plastics, the inflatable progressively faded away, the post-modern current juxtaposing the image of this industrial product. But since about ten years, with the appearance of more ecological new technologies, the inflatable has regained its reputation and represents an alternative for a number of architects such as Arata Isozaki or Kengo Kuma among others. Yukihisa Isobe, as early as in the sixties, tackled with this innovative pneumatic structure, and created to a huge dome for Earth Day in 1970. He had installed in New York and succeeded in acquire the green card for to get a position in Department of the Park in New York City. In this time of ecology, he created a poster for Earth Day, with the background of young Americans’ anti-war for Vietnam, AIDS or drug problems. In the exhibit of Aerodream, the poster and the video are on view from Yukihisa Isobe. The exhibit will travel to Cite de l’Architecture et Patrimoine in Paris this November after the session at Centre Pompidou Metz.

康夏奈 @ 六本木蔦屋書店、東京

2021/03/25

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Kana Kou @ ROPPONGI TSUTAYA BOOKS, Tokyo

We are pleased to announce the solo show of Kana Kou (Yoshida Kana) at ROPPONGI TSUTAYA BOOKS in Tokyo. (For available works of Kou, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) Kou Kana has been working based on her actual experience in the nature, climbing mountains and diving into the ocean. Her works are not merely a result of her visual experience, but memory, including the emotion she has felt through her experience, anxiety or fear, which can turn the place special for the artist. The artist called these kind of experience a "Beautiful Limit", and which also were adopted as titles of her works. Her works had a large impact in group exhibition recently held at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum (Oct. 2020 to Jan. 2021). In the new solo exhibition of the artist "100 miles climbing" beginning from March 22, is held in two sets, showing some of her major works which have not be shown recently in public. ■ Kou Kana "100 miles climbing" Period First Term: March 22 (Mon) to April 25 (Sun), 2021 Second Term: April 27 (Tue) - May 30 (Sun), 2021 Place: ROPPONGI​ TSUTAYA BOOKS 2F BOOK GALLERY (6-11-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 ROPPONGI HILLS Roppongi Keyakizaka Street) 【 Yoshida Kana / Kou Kana Catalogue 】 From paintings to installations, we selected more than 130 major works out of over 300 works by the artist from the early period to 2020. Introduced in chronological order to show the transformation of the artist's interest and expression. The first catalogue of the artist is scheduled to be published in April 2021. 【100 miles climbing “you are here to enjoy yourself “】​ The first half of the 100 miles climbing exhibition show mainly works from the "For the Love of Beer" series which is based on the artist's original plot about the main character Mr. Beer climbing a cliff while at the same time enjoying the process to reach the goal. The climber is doing the vertical mountain climbing seven days, while only drinking water from cactus and therefore dreaming of having a beer at the final goal. The landscape is an imaginative scenery based on the artist's own mountain climbing. The title of the first set of the exhibition “ you are here to enjoy yourself ” is a message of the artist. Overcoming the obstacle day by day, step by step to have the treat on the last day. This might be close to our recent difficult situation. [100 miles climbing “Beautiful Limit"] The term “Beautiful Limit” is made by the artist meaning the state in which one's limitation and consciousness expands due to panic, entailed by fear or surprise, at the moment encountering nature beyond recognition. The artist's whole working process was to expand this Beautiful Limit. Her direct experience of the nature was always there before the works, and the works were the result of reconstruction based on the experience. The second half of the exhibition introduces works with impressive green landscapes. While the first half is about the struggle of human kind in the large nature, the second will be about the harmony with the nature. We are able to feel the artist's view toward the richness of the nature.

田中信太郎 : STEPS AHEAD @ アーティゾン美術館

2021/03/17

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Shintaro Tanaka : STEPS AHEAD @ Artizon Museum in Tokyo

Current exhibition at Artizon Museum in Tokyo "STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions" (2.13-9.5, 2021) introduces 201 works from Cubism, abstract expressionism to the collection of drawings by Henri Matisse, including 92 new acquisitions being exhibited for the first time, and 87 works from the collection of portrait photographs of the artists. Among the new acquisitions, to be noted are the works of Shintaro Tanaka, which were exhibited last year at Art Front Gallery. Tanaka has fostered a long relationship with the Ishibashi Foundation organizing the Artizon Museum, and we would like to introduce it. Yasuhide Shimbata, the curator of this exhibition, presented the highlights of this exhibit, especially focusing on newly acquired works of Shintaro Tanaka, as well as on the approach by the museum on collecting and presenting "contemporary art" of the respective period for the museum. (photo: Installation view of “STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions”(Kuramata/Tanaka Section) photo by Keizo Kioku, courtesy of Artizon Museum)

春原直人:VOCA展 @ 上野の森美術館

2021/03/17

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Naoto Sunohara @ The Ueno Royal Museum

Naoto Sunohara is participating in the group exhibition "VOCA 2021" at The Ueno Royal Museum. (For available works of Sunohara, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) Usually the artist is selected through nomination by a single curator, whereas Sunohara has been nominated by both Mayumi Kiuchi at Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum and Aya Takada at Birdoflugas. We appreciate your kind visit to the exhibit to support the activity of Sunohara, a young promised talent. Works of Sunohara are also on view at Art Fair Tokyo from March 19-21 at booth G098. Please take a look on this show as well. ■VOCA 2021 the Vision Of Contemporary Art Venue: The Ueno Royal Museum (1-2, Ueno Koen, Taito-Ku, Tokyo) Date: 2021.3.12(Fri.)-30(Tue.) The exhibit VOCA has been organized since 1994 every year in the field of two-dimensional artwork in contemporary art, in order to support the young talent in international perspective. The selection is executed through nomination by museum curators, researchers, art journalists: they nominate one artist (or one unit of artists) and all the nominated artists will be exhibited in the exhibition, thus introducing and revealing unknown talent throughout Japan.

[再び!] 浅見貴子 @ 中村屋サロン美術館、新宿

2021/03/03

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Takako Azami @ Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art 2021

Takako Azami’s solo exhibition is held on Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art, Tokyo. (For available works of Azami, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■Takako Azami’s solo exhibition Period: March 3rd (Wed.) -April 11th (Sun.), 2021 Venue: Nakamuraya Salon Museum of Art Exhibition Room 1.2 3F Shinjuku Nakamuraya Building, 3-26-13 Shinjuku, Shinjuku City, Tokyo https://www.nakamuraya.co.jp/museum/exhibitions/ Gallery talk:2021.3/3(水)AM10:30~ Special artist talk: March 5th (Fri.), 2021 AM10:30~ (photo: "Plum Tree 1907" 2019_Sumi ink, resinous glue on hemp paper, 2030 x 2650mm)

阪本トクロウ、久野彩子 @ 練馬区立美術館

2021/02/28

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Tokuro Sakamoto and Ayako Kuno @ Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo

Tokuro Sakamoto and Ayako Kuno are participating the exhibition “Paintings of Electrical Wire” at Nerima Art Museum. (For available works of artists, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) Current exhibit “Paintings of Electrical Wire” at Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo features the artworks depicting electrical wire and utility poles. Yosuke Katou, curator of this show, has long fostered this unique idea based on the landscape paintings where these utilities coexist with the main Mt. Fuji. He also follow the landscape with electrical wire today, to present Tokuro Sakamoto and Ayako Kuno. Sakamoto concentrates on the pure representation of the wires in the sky. Kuno has created an installation of “skytree” symbolizes proliferating elements of newly appearing city, which synchronizes the increase of electric wire. Please visit the exhibit collecting about 150 artworks through April 18. ■Paintings of Electrical Wire 2021.02.28(Sun.)~ 2021.04.18(Sun.) Nerima Art Museum(1-36-16 Nukui, Nerima City, Tokyo) https://www.neribun.or.jp/event/detail_m.cgi?id=202012111607684505 Ayako Kuno "35°42′36″N,139°48′39″E (Skytree)"(detail) (Main image: Tokuro Sakamoto "breath" 2012, 140x140mm)

角文平 @ 旧日本銀行広島支店

2021/02/20

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Bunpei Kado @ Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch

Bunpei Kado is participating in the group exhibition "どこxデザ" at Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch. (For available works by Kado, please visit the artist page on Art Front Gallery webpage :Click here) ■Special exhibition Period: February 20th (Sat) -March 7th (Sun), 2021 Venue: Former Bank of Japan Hiroshima Branch (5-21 Fukuromachi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City) Opening hours: 10: 00-17: 00 free 角 文平Bunpei Kado《Secret room》 核戦争によって人類が滅亡し、誰も立ち入らなくなった銀行の面会室。世界が終末を迎えても、ロボット掃除機だけは部屋を清潔に保ち続けようと動き続ける。小さな部屋の中で密かに繰り返される営みから、広島に原爆が投下されても大戦が終わらなかったパラレルワールドに思いを馳せることができる。

田中信太郎 @ アーティゾン美術館、東京

2021/02/14

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Shintaro Tanaka @ Artizon Museum, Tokyo

Artworks of Shintaro Tanaka are on view at current exhibit “STEP AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions” in Artizon Museum, Tokyo. (please click here for Shintaro Tanaka) STEPS AHEAD features on the Artizon Museum’s latest additions to the collection. It is composed of the sections of Cubism, of drawings by Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp and related artists, women artists of Abstract Expressionism, Takiguchi Shuzo and Experimental Workshop, contemporary Australian aboriginal paintings, and much more. This exhibition of 201 works, including 92 new acquisitions being exhibited for the first time, and 87 works from the collection of portrait photographs of artists provides a view of the Artizon Museum’s continuing progress in expanding the horizons of its collection. Tanaka’s works are exhibited in the 4th section “Shiro Kuramata and Shintaro Tanaka” In the sixth-floor lobby of the Artizon Museum displayed are “Glass Bench” (1986) by Shiro Kuramata, late leading designer of Japan, and “Then Music Began to Reach My Ears” (1986) by Shintaro Tanaka, plastic artist. These two influential figures in design as well as art world had fostered a close relationship between them.Kuramata’s bench as well as Tanaka’s sculpture, kept in the previous Bridgestone Building, were added to the collection of the Museum in occasion of inauguration of museum tower Kyobashi. In addition, the newly acquired works of Kuramata’s furniture, two-and-three dimensional works of Tanaka, all are introduced in this section 4. -STEPS AHEAD: Recent Acquisitions- Date: 2021.2.13-5.9 Venue: Artizon Museum (address: 1-7-2, Kyobashi, Chuoku, 1040031 Tokyo Photo: Shintaro Tanaka “韓(HAN)- in fall” 1990

金氏徹平『消しゴム山』東京・オンライン公演

2021/02/13

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Teppei Kaneuji “Eraser Mountain” in Tokyo

Teppei Kaneuji is participating the performance, “Eraser Mountain” as a scenographer this time. (For available works by Kaneuji, please visit the artist page on Art Front Gallery webpage :Click here) Theater freed from the "human yardstick," updating our vision of the world space, and language appear in unknown forms... Through theater, an activity for people, is it possible to bring forth a world in which human beings, things, and the environment surrounding them all exist in a flat relationship? The city of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture incurred immense devastation in the Great East Japan Earthquake. Earthwork construction aimed at raising the level of the ground to prevent damage from tsunami artificially altered the landscape with an amazing rapidity. Toshiki Okada's idea for creating a work that questioned the ""human yardstick"" sprang from a firsthand look at this sight. Eraser Mountain, the resulting play, was prepared in collaboration with the artist Teppei Kaneuji, who continues to expand the domain of sculpture. In space cluttered with countless items, actors build a new relationship with objects, and audiences come to see the world with a new vision. About one year has passed since the first performance of Eraser Mountain, which debuted in Kyoto in October 2019. The project, which began with theaters, has since been expanded to include various other types of space. Eraser Forest put actors into museums, which are normally space for art objects, and performance with things took another step forward. These achievements were brought into the living space of the actors in Eraser Field, which altered ways of seeing everyday scenes. Eraser Mountain has returned to the theater, and all are waiting to see what sort of landscape it will present. This is the latest edition in the Eraser series. ■“Eraser Mountain is watching” (Live Streaming) Schedule 2/13(Sat) 17:00 2/14(Sun) 14:00Archive period:23:59 the next day of each streaming day Surtitle:English/Japanese Ticket Surtitle with English / Surtitle withJapanese / No surtitle ¥1,800 (All denomination) Reservation LAWSON TICKET LIVE STREAMING https://l-tike.com/play/mevent/?mid=563763 ■chelfitsch & Teppei Kaneuji “Eraser Mountain” in Tokyo Schedule 2/11(Tue) 17:00 2/12(Fri) 12:00/17:00 2/13(Sat) 12:00★/17:00☆ 2/14(Sun) 14:00☆ ★Performances with low viewing-manner hurdles ☆Live streaming Venue OWLSPOT Theatre

原田郁 @ ICC、新宿

2021/01/24

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Iku Harada @ NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo

Iku Harada has been participating in the group exhibition "The Museum in the Multi-layered World" at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]. (For available works of Harada, please visit artist page of Art Front Gallery: Click here) ■The Museum in the Multi-layered World [Online Exhibition] Date: January 16–March 31, 2021 Venue: https://hyper.ntticc.or.jp/ [Exhibition at Real-space Venues] Date: January 23–March 14, 2021 Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A (Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 163-1404 Japan) Hours: 11:00am–6:00pm (Reservation is required to see the exhibition.) Closed: Mondays, Maintenance day (February 14) Artists Aguyoshi OYAIZU Saori TANIGUCHI Akihiko HARADA Iku FUJIKURA Asako YAMAUCHI Shota YAMAMOTO Yuu and TOKISATO Mitsuru Click here for details The installation view of Online Exhibition

アートブック/アートグッズ@BankART KAIKO、横浜

2021/01/17

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ART BOOK / ART GOODS @ BankART KAIKO, Yokohama

ART BOOK / ART GOODS @ BankART KAIKO Artists: Yukihisa Isobe, Leandro Erlich, Shinji Ohmaki, Bunpei Kado, Takanao Kaneko, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Tadashi Kawamata, Kaori Tanaka, Shintaro Tanaka, Nozomi Tanaka, Rina Tanaka, TODO, Yuma Tomiyasu, Michiko Nakatani, Iku Harada Period: January 15th (Friday) -January 31st (Sunday), 2021 11:00 to 19:00 Venue: BankART KAIKO (5-57-2-1F, Kitanaka Dori, Naka-ku, Yokohama) Click here for details (image: Takanao Kaneko"Controller NSF" 257×257mm) Bunpei Kado "A memory of Wild - Bear -" 230x160x85mm Yuma Tomiyasu "Young Man (red ring)" 438x197x35mm / 2012 TODO "Zeichnung-16.Nov.2005" 337x244x25㎜

[Artists Talk ] 中谷ミチコ x 塩田千春 @ 3331 Arts Chiyoda

2021/01/15

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[Artists Talk ] Michiko Nakatani x Chiharu Shiota @ 3331 Arts Chiyoda

中谷ミチコがインタビュアーとして、ベルリンを拠点に活動するアーティスト・塩田千春さんと対談を行った様子が、現在、3331 Arts Chiyoda内にあるアキバタマビ21にて開催中の展覧会で発表されています。 アーティストとして社会と向き合い作品を生み出すという事、伝えるという事、今このコロナ禍で思う事など、アーティストとして活躍する二人のzoomによる対談の様子がご覧いただけます。ドイツでアートを学んだという共通点のある二人。その他にも共感できる点があり大変興味深い内容となっています。 トークの中には中谷が2021年秋に参加する奥能登国際芸術祭2020+(石川県珠洲市)の話も出てきますので、中谷の今後の活躍にもご期待頂ければ幸いです。 ■アキバタマビ21 特別インタビュー上映「出品作家に「今」を聞く/EWS教授に「世界」を聞く」 2021年1月15日(金)〜2月14日(日) 12:00〜19:00(金・土は20:00まで) 火曜休場入場無料 〒101-0021 東京都千代田区外神田6-11-14 3331 Arts Chiyoda 201・202 写真:(参考作品) 中谷ミチコ「根、ね」207x279mm / 紙に水彩、色鉛筆 他 / 2019 

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