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Naoki Honjo : LIGHT HOUSE Tokyo ｜ Skåne

NEW EXHIBITION

Naoki Honjo

Born 1978, Tokyo. Studied media art at Tokyo Polytechnic University Faculty of Arts.
Honjo photographs landscapes and buildings in the context of communities and human intervention, presenting them as though they were phenotypes observed within nature.
He has garnered attention for his soft pictures, which he creates from a constructed layering of elements, including his preference for film, use of 4×5 large format cameras, aerial shooting, and his worldwide selection of shot locations. His photography book, small planet, received the 32nd Kimura Ihei Award, and his works are housed in collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The upcoming exhibition of Honjo’s works will be held at two galleries. On display at the nap gallery will be his most well-known works, aerial shots of residential neighborhoods in Skane County, Sweden. On display at TSCA will be new works alongside unpublished works from 10 years ago, shots of residential areas in Tokyo cut off from the ground. Through Honjo’s filter, sky and ground, opposite though they are, become one.

We invite you to take this opportunity to see Honjo’s work on display at the two galleries.

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Tomokazu Matsuyama : "East Weets Mest" Joshua Liner Gallery

Solo Exhibition

Tomokazu Matsuyama

East Weets Mest
Sep 8 – Oct 8, 2011
Joshua Liner Gallery

Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present East Weets Mest, an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by the New York-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. 

Matsuyama’s wildly colorful art relocates traditional Japanese icons and imagery into a broader international mix of styles, signs, and symbols. The spoonerism of the show’s title, East Weets Mest, playfully mimics this relocation and subsequent homogenization of cultural material, which Matsuyama identifies as a key force in contemporary life. “Urban centers are becoming increasingly familiar, with their patchwork of intermingling cultural signifiers,” says the artist. “This chaotic mix has become the everyday, where traditions and local signifiers dissolve into one another to make a unique new shape of today’s culture.”
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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : Yokohama Triennale 2011

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi will participate in Yokohama Triennale 2011.

Yokohama Triennale 2011
Dates: Sat, Aug 6th – Sun, Nov 6th 2011
Venue : Yokohama Museum of Art / NYK Waterfront Warehouse (BankART Studio NYK), Kanagawa

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : a new book "Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011"

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi has published a new book.

Mai Yamashita+Naoto Kobayashi　WORKS 2007-2011
128×144mm（case size 187×200×25mm）
color text／ 96P
hardcover
with a case and a magnifying glass
Price : ¥4095 (tax included)
Design : Yoshihisa Tanaka
Publication : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Sold : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
ISBN 978-4-9905988-00-8

For more information, please contact our gallery.

gallery@tsca.jp

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Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi : "The Four Souvenirs and The Book" TSCA

NEW EXHIBITION

Mai Yamashita / Born in 1976 in Chiba, Japan, PhD Tokyo University of The Arts

Naoto Kobayashi / Born in 1974 in Chiba, Japan, M.A. Tokyo University of The Arts

Yamashita and Kobayashi met at high school and started working together in 2000. Since moving to Germany in 2004, they have been working and living in Berlin and have traveled the world working on their projects. They have had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Gottingen (Germany, 2011) and Kunsthalle Lingen (Germany, 2007) among others. Group shows include ARS06 at The Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA (Helsinki, 2006); Re-imagining Asia at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2008); Things That Only An Artist Can Do at MARCO- Museo de Arte Contemporanea (Vigo, Spain, 2010); Aichi Triennale 2010; and Yokohama Triennale 2011.

Meandering thoughts and memories form a sort of consciousness that, through the artists’ simple actions, refreshes our own thoughts as real potential. “Major League Birdwatching” is a new piece based on stereotypical images of America and the contrasting reality found through their daily life experiences.

Mai Yamashita + Naoto Kobayashi

The Four Souvenirs and The Book

August 6 (Sat) – September 17 (Sat), 2011

Opening reception for the artists : Saturday, 6th August, 6-8PM

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Satoru Tamura : "A" Machine TSCA

NEW EXHIBITION

TSCA is pleased to announce our current ongoing exhibition by Satoru Tamura, “A” Machine.

Satoru Tamura, born in 1972 and presently residing in Ibaraki, began exhibiting his works in 1995. His consistent approach to art seems to suggest that he aspired to become an artist from the young age of 23 as part of his mission to reject the meaning and significance attached to worldly things. Early representative works include “Standing bears go back”, in which propeller-powered bears move backwards, and films “Eventually the washing machine will combust” and “Plastic models break into pieces”. In recent years, new exhibits showing his Weight Sculptures series and Point of Contact serieshave been garnering attention both within Japan and abroad.