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Enrico Isamu Ōyama: "Sites of Knowledge"（Jane Lombard Gallery）

Enrico Isamu Ōyama will be participating in the group exhibition Sites of Knowledge on Thursday, June 8 at Jane Lombard Gallery in New York.

This exhibition explores history, authorship and visual structures of knowledge through works of varied media by artists examining the “symbol” and language. There, Ōyama will show his latest works and live painting performance at the opening reception.
　
We hope you will get a chance to visit the exhibition and view his works if you visit or live in or close to New York. 
　
For more information regarding this exhibition:
http://www.janelombardgallery.com/current/

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Kenjiro Okazaki

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Kenjiro Okazaki: “The Insight of Kenjiro Okazaki - Abstract Art as Impact —How Abstract Arts Can Become Concrete Tools” Talk

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Enrico Isamu Ōyama Solo Exhibition “Windowsill” (LUMINE 0)

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Kenjiro Okazaki: “The Insight of Kenjiro Okazaki - Abstract Art as Impact —How Abstract Arts Can Become Concrete Tools”

“The Insight of Kenjiro Okazaki – Abstract Art as Impact —How Abstract Arts Can Become Concrete Tools,” curated by Kenjiro Okazaki, will be opening at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art (Aichi Prefecture) on Saturday, April 22nd, 2017. Aside from his active career as an artist, Okazaki has introduced innovative views on artworks and art history based on his broad knowledge of culture and art. He will examine the primal intentions of Abstract Art in this exhibition through exploring the art collection built by Toyota Municipal Museum of Art since its opening in 1995.

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“The Insight of Kenjiro Okazaki – Abstract Art as Impact —How Abstract Arts Can Become Concrete Tools”

https://www.museum.toyota.aichi.jp/exhibition/2017/special/Kenjiro_Okazaki/

Period: April 22 (Sat) – June 11 (Sun)

Closed: Mondays (except May 1)
Hours: 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (entrance until 5 p.m.)
Organized by: Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Admission Fees: Adults ¥800; High school and university students ¥500 
＊Free for elementary and junior high school students, high school student (live in Toyota City),
senior (75 and over) and mentally or physically disabled people with one attendant.
Curated by: Kenjiro Okazaki (Artist)

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Masaru Iwai：The Catalog “Prisoner of Habit” Has Been Published and Available Online

The catalog documenting Maseru Iwai’s series of projects Prisoner of Habit conducted at AKIBI plus (Akita, Japan) in 2015 and 2016 has been published and is available online.
　
You can view and download it on the website below (published only in Japanese besides the artist statement on each project):
http://akibi-plus.jp/topics/1708/
　
At the artist-in-residence program and exhibition “Prisoner of habit: dance, eat, defecate” in 2015, Iwai depicted one of the provincial cities after the war through researching issues on spring water and Bon festival dance mainly in Shinya area, Akita. He created opportunities for the local to communicate with each other by opening the vacant house, where he stayed, to the public and working together with them on the project. As for “Making an Exhibition, Prisoner of Habit with Masaru Iwai” in 2016, he visualized the form of the changing provincial city through researching homemade videos recorded in 8mm films and VHS, which are now replaced by the internet and other newer media.

This catalog includes essays by Eriko Kimura, curator at Yokohama Museum of Art, and Ayako Osanai, independent curator/coordinator.
　
Those two projects were conducted as collaborative projects with the local and students who were interested in art/artist management. AKIBI plus, the organizer of the projects, is a human resource development program for art management, where the faculty of Akita University of Art conducts projects in collaboration with four areas in Akita Prefecture.