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Past Exhibition

Kenjiro Okazaki

9 July - 24 August, 2019

Venue : Takuro Someya Contemporary Art

  • Installation view, photo by Shu Nakagawa

  • 岡﨑乾二郎「頂天にある角砂糖 / 須弥山(Excellent Meru)」、2019、カンヴァスにアクリル、 (H)20.3×(W)16.6×(D)3cm、Photo by Shu Nakagawa

  • 岡﨑乾二郎「私の指から没薬の液が流れる / Adonis─Anemone」、2019、カンヴァス にアクリル、(H)20.2×(W)16.6×(D)2.9cm、Photo by Shu Nakagawa

  • 岡﨑乾二郎「考えなき情景 / No more ;where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise/」、カンヴァスにアクリル、(H) 18.1×(W)16.4×(D)3cm、2018 、Photo by Shu Nakagawa

  • 岡﨑乾二郎「アリストパネスの饒舌 / 減らず口が食を減らす」 、2018、カンヴァスにアクリル、(H)18.1×(W)16.7×(D)3cm、Photo by Shu Nakagawa

  • 岡﨑乾二郎「河上へむかう月 / コヨルシャウキ(Coyolxauhqui)」、2019、カンヴァスにアクリル、(H)16.2×(W)18.1×(D)3cm、Photo by Shu Nakagawa

Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to present Kenjiro Okazaki’s exhibition.
Zero Thumbnail series paintings including new works are exhibited at TSCA.

Kenjiro Okazaki is an artist, critic, visiting professor of Musashino Art University. He works in Tokyo.
Okazaki (b. 1955) is a Japanese visual artist whose works span over several genres, including painting, sculpture, as well as landscape and architecture. Many of his works has been featured in public collections throughout Japan and in various exhibitions around the world. In 2002, Okazaki was selected of thedirector of the Japanese pavilion of the International Architecture Exhibition in Venice Biennale. His works include a collaborative performance ‘I Love my Robot’ with the choreographer Trisha Brown, premiered in early 2007. He received Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in 2014.
Okazaki is also extremely active as a theoretician and critic, and is the author or co-author of several books, including Renaissance: Condition of Experience (Bunshun Gakugei Library, 2015) featuring his analysis of Filippo Brunelleschi, and Abstract Art as Impact: The Concrete Genealogy of Abstract Art (Akishobo, 2018)received the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts in 2019.

Kenjiro Okazaki
Exhibition period: Tuesday, July 9 – Saturday, August 24, 2019
Joint opening reception in TERRADA Art Complex :
Saturday July 13, 18:00-20:00

Summer holiday: Sunday, August 11 –  Monday, August 19

Open: Tue, Wed, Thu + Saturday 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.|Friday 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Closed: Sun, Mon, and National Holidays

 

TERRADA Art Complex 3F 1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, 140-0002

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